It breaks my heart

It’s another cloudy morning on the island.  Where is all that bright sunshine that we had last year at this same time? 
Tonight, I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving by teaching my yoga class.  I’ve decided to instruct on a sequence that includes all of my least favorite poses with emphasis on trying to find comfort while in the pose [...]

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The puzzling rub of the rupee

In 2007 an anti-corruption group in India developed a rather creative way to help people ‘just say no’ to corruption.
The ‘5th Pillar’ as the group is known printed some 25,000 rupee notes that had the official Mahatma Gandhi and design on the face of the note and a mission statement about anti-corruption on the other side.
The [...]

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Rock, paper, scissor those thighs

A few weeks ago I joined a gym at one of the nearby resorts.  It’s not really an open gym that advertises for members, but more the type where you have to know someone to know about it.
I decided to join because I have a bit more free time than I’m used to having.  To [...]

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Pick a Language

Last week it seemed as if I almost killed a guy in my, what is now, weekly yoga class.  It was hardly my fault due to the fact that I think the major problem was the fact that he couldn’t understand me.
There seem to be many people here on the island that can’t speak English [...]

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Swami Pilgrim in the Land of Piment

Today, I became a yoga instructor in a country where 60-70% of the population is Indian or of Indian descent. 
It was only yesterday that I was asked to teach a class at the local gym and so I spent the day preparing my lesson and practicing my asanas.  It’s been a very long time since I [...]

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