Tag: Yoga
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Yoga Training and Sight-Seeing in Israel
I am a yoga practitioner and a yoga teacher, so an announcement about a training in the Arava desert caught my eye. What better place than a desert could there be for meditation? There are many stories of the sages who, throughout known time, took themselves off into the desert to be still and to […]
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Nairobi Celebrates the International Day of Yoga
Good morning! If you are in Nairobi and haven’t made plans for this Sunday, here’s a suggestion. Today there are special yoga events in the city. Even if you are late out of bed, you still have plenty of time for going to the free yoga in City Park. Today is actually a celebration in […]
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Fatuma’s Tower: Up in the Dunes of Shela
With its narrow, donkey-trodden alleyways, carved wooden doors, wailing muezzins and rolling sand dunes, Lamu island truly is a world apart from the likes of Malindi and Mombasa further down the coast. The island’s charm has been tested numerous times, though, since it first established itself as a tourist destination in the 1960s. As celebrities […]