Food is your fuel and your friend on any endurance challenge. That bite of a tasty sweet snack is a much-needed boost, physically and emotionally, up a mountain – whatever your mode of transport. And if you have a foodie…
Mindfulness has eased its way into modern life, from cleaning your teeth before work to strolling along a beach on holiday. Children can learn to mindfully eat a raisin (or even a chunk of chocolate – ssh!) for their mental…
When I was looking at visiting Pondicherry I couldn't find a bad word about the place. Seriously, I tried (I like to be prepared). But Google and fellow travellers - eastern and western - would only deliver kind words about…
‘You will be lubricated, scrubbed and sweated,' says the grinning Ayurvedic doctor. Sounds scary? Yep, I was a little apprehensive, especially when he causally mentioned the possibility of far more daunting cleanses. Block your ears (no, that's not a treatment),…
I crashed in Kovalam. Physically. Mentally. Guiltily. Ridiculously. My travel plans for this Kerala leg did not go to plan. I'm not even sure what the plan was but it didn't meet my expectations. I split my dress, broke my…
The food you eat and its effect on the body is a popular topic of conversation among westerners in India. You'll find you know more about the digestive systems of newly found friends than people you've known for years, with…
Cycling along the Bangalore Nilgiri road through the centre of Mysore city is a hairy experience. In the midst of the tooting and honking tuk-tuks, cars and motorbikes careering towards each other (and you), there are cattle grazing in the…
I am struggling to put pen to paper - or rather greasy sun-lotioned finger to smudgy iPad. This is not because I am uninspired by Little Cove Yoga Retreat, Goa (first stop on my travels around southern India). Quite the…
Some time ago, I read a book called How to Look at a Painting. I imagine I thought I looked artistically intellectual reading it on the tube, though it was actually rather interesting and totally unpretentious. The book by New…
Gabrielle Bernstein bounds onto the stage bursting with Friday night enthusiasm, her energy as palpable as one of her pulse-touching meditations. ‘Hello, London!’, she exclaims in a New York accent to actual shrieks among the huge audience at a packed…
