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- by Bianca M. Saia
- published from India
- on 2010.12.29
Inside an Indian Ashram
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How’s this for a holiday: getting up before sunrise, no alcohol, and wearing modest, unremarkable clothing. This is what hundreds come to do at an ashram in the south of India.
Every year, they come, mostly young Western women, to medicate, practice yoga, and follow an acetic lifestyle. I spent 12 days at the Yoga Vacation of the ashram Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Dhanwantari, whose mission is popularize the practice in the West.
Listen to the report.
- by Bianca M. Saia
- published from Papua New Guinea
- on 2010.06.17
A funeral in Papua New Guinea
When someone dies Highlands of PNG, the village gathers for days in collective mourning, called a haus krai. To attend a funeral, where the bereaved wail loudly and publicly, is a journey that tries one’s body and emotions. That’s what we learned when we were invited to grieve for a man that was recently beheaded. Listen to the report.
- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Fiji
- on 2010.02.28
The sound of Fiji’s music
We were seduced by Fiji’s music the moment we first heard it: rich harmonies, soulful singing, simple melodies.
Here’s an interview with musicians from the White Sandy Beach Lodge in Fiji’s Naviti Island.