Jun 15, 2011
YOGA FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE
YOGA FOR PREVENTION OF CANCER HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE DIABETES The popularity of Yoga has skyrocketed. Th e practice of yoga has increased in many countries, such as the United States…
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Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jun 15, 2011
SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUALITY
SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUALITY Today my sister wanted me to go with her, to witness the end of the year ceremonies for her granddaughter who is graduating from Grade III. As…
Jun 15, 2011
MINDLESS EATING EXPLAINED USING RAJA YOGA
MINDLESS EATING EXPLAINED USING RAJA YOGA PHILOSOPHY I do not claim to know a lot of the philosophy behind Raja Yoga, except to say that I am a serious student…
Jun 15, 2011
ALTERNATIVE OR COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINE.. ONE VIEW
COMPLIMENTARY OR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE WHERE DOES YOGA/AYURVEDA/ACUPUNCTURE FIT INTO THIS PUZZLE The predominant discourse about Health in this world, in the developed and developing world is Western Medicine or called…
Jun 15, 2011
POSSIBILITY OF REVERSAL OF HEART DISEASE AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS
I have worked with Native American Indians for awhile and have been educated in their ways of thinking and their philosophy of life. So when a graduate from the oldest…
Jun 15, 2011
AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS: SOMEONE IS LYING
AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS SOMEONE IS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH PRE DIABETES 79 million adult January 2011 57 million October 2010 25.6 million over the…
Jun 15, 2011
WHO DECIDES ON THE CORRECT TREATMENT FOR DIABETES
You can read this post in conjunction with the previous post: America by the numbers. You can substitute: Australia, UK, India... in every country, they predict that Diabetes would double…
Jun 15, 2011
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS. LESSONS FROM KUALA LUMPUR AND MIAMI
Last night while having dinner with my long time friend Dr Mark Walker and his wife Greta, we talked about collaborating on a venture which would provide quality comfort to…
Jun 15, 2011
7000 MILES TO SEE YOUR BEST FRIEND
The Flight, an Air France Boeing 777 left Paris Airport at 12 midnight. After a good flight of 12 hours, we reached Singapour Airport. The only turbulence was over the…
May 15, 2011
YOGA IN MALAYSIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE All Efforts at Self Improvement is Yoga. Men and Women are confronted by existential questions about Happiness, Tranquility in Life and question…
May 15, 2011
Chinese in Malaysia.. They Eat Well, Dont they?
You are lucky to have befriended a chinese family in the food business, said my best friend in Asia, who lives in Kuala Lumpur. If you had befriended any one…
May 15, 2011
YOGA IN KUALA LUMPUR: LIFESTYLE COACH OF MALAYSIA
In these modern times, when changes are occurring at a mind boggling speed and technology and its benefits overwhelming us; why is that all of us, young and old, look…
May 15, 2011
MOTIVATION TO BEGIN RAJA YOGA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MOTIVATION TO BEGIN RAJA YOGA After having several discussions with Mun Ching Yong, Founder of a newly set up enterprise Meher Yoga…
May 15, 2011
A CUT ABOVE at Bangsar Merci Beaucoup Feiwen GS and Nadia
A Cut Above at Bangsar Village, Kuala Lumpur. Luxury with Friendship For a person who lives on the other side of the world to KL, I am lucky to have…
May 15, 2011
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE? Brain was viewed as a static organ in the body until as recent as the 1980s. We can now say with…
May 15, 2011
The Experience of Raja Yoga: Notes from Malaysia
What is the image of Yoga in the western mind? Twisted bodies in contorted poses, clean studios where a group of people meditating or out in the open, preferably by…
May 15, 2011
LOTUS, GIVERNY, MONET, YOGA, DUTY TO MANKIND
LOTUS, GIVERNY, YOGA, DUTY TO MANKIND On this Sunday, a short ride of less than about 60km from Paris, and you are at the village of Giverny, where the Impressionist…
May 15, 2011
EAT HEALTHY SAVE THE PLANET RESPECT JAPANESE CULTURE
EAT HEALTHY SAVE THE TUNA SPARE THE GROUPER HAVE A KIND HEALTHY HEART AND SAVE THE PLANET Among the ubiquitous proliferations, insulting to a Japanese sensibility to cuisine, has been…