Swart Donkey

The Yoga Centre I went to had an American Swami leading it. A tall guy who was full of life and joy. On a weekend retreat I joined, I had a ...

I had obstacles to overcome with the Yoga Centre I joined. The style did make a few minor adaptations for Western tastes. Like moving breath...

One of my frustrations with my religious roots was when I was having a conversation with someone, and the tone of their voice changed. Ken R...

I had some obstacles to overcome to do yoga. The centre I went to taught very traditional Sivananda Yoga. Sivananda himself was a medical do...

Self-reliance is incredibly empowering. It is a story in which I have been deep soaked. Lower your expectations and you can’t be disappoin...

Morality and ethics remain even when you have different religious beliefs. Even if you don’t have a higher power. They are the agreements ...

Words are chunky. The more time we spend together, the more layers of agreed meaning a work can have. Each word in a sentence can mean a se...

Trev: I grew up in a religious, mostly protestant, mostly white, liberalish community in Apartheid South Africa. One of my watershed mome...

I grew up in a religious community, but I am no longer religious. One tool that you lose when you move away from religion is the theatre of...

I grew up in a very religious community at the tail end of the Cold War and Apartheid. Ideologies end up having strange bedfellows, and we ...

When some people move away from faith, they don't move away from the culture. Many of the Atheists I know are Jewish. The Atheists who ...

Os portugueses foram os primeiros europeus a explorar o litoral da África do Sul. Tendo desistido de séculos de cruzadas, o mar oferecia um...

Turkmenistan was washed by several cultural waves. Indo-European languages show how our tongues are linked, even if our ears hide be...

Rather than looking at individual companies that are gathering information about us to affect our decisions, it is more powerful to look in...

Civil war has often followed independence from foreign conquerors. Tajikistan became an independent nation following the 1991 disso...

Unlike other islands which were colonised and the populations replaced, the Samoan people's ancestors reached their country abou...

What would you include in a secular 'Church'? Do you think it is possible? I often walk past the beautiful old churches in the UK, ...

Two big drivers of some of the bloodiest wars the world has seen were Conspicuous Consumption and Work Ethic . War was partly a commercial ...

Munich (München) is the largest city in the German state of Bavaria (third biggest in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg) . It is a city ...

Even good ideas need to be good business ideas in order to happen. Good business ideas can require cover to make them seem like good...