a powerful MOT for love and life
Awakening of Love retreat, with Pia Muggerud Is there something missing in your life? Are you unsure if you’re in the right relationship, the right job, the right place, the…
Read moreyoga, meditation and mindfulness – the perfect trifecta, by fé
Yoga, meditation and mindfulness make up a beautiful recipe for life-long contentment. They may not be easy, but have faith: they pay back far beyond the time, effort and (possibly) anguish…
Read morean afternoon tea for the senses
Quiche with cedar wood, macaroons made of basil, chocolate cake with a hint of black figs… Zip up to Café Grey Deluxe for the new fragrant diptyque La Collection 34…
Read morethe most pampering bar in town
Front row seats overlooking Victoria Harbour, champagne on tap and fine art (in miniature)… Sounds like Hong Kong’s coolest hang out. And it is. The Nail Bar at the Four Seasons Hong…
Read moreunesco luxury in china
I so loved my trips to Sichuan last year I’m super excited about the opening of Six Senses Qing Cheng Mountain, an hour’s drive from downtown Chengdu. Explore the land of…
Read moreway to celebrate singapore’s 50 years!
Capella Singapore’s Auriga Spa launches their 50-Finger massage. Do the maths, people! If it’s 50 fingers then it’s 10 hands and 5 therapists (for 60 minutes), all muscling in, in…
Read morenews flash: unlimited spa treatments in thailand!
We’ve just started getting used to Fusion Resorts’ all-inclusive spa options in Vietnam (see below). But unlimited spa? This treat comes from Hansar Samui. Hansar’s super-stylish boutique resort on the Thai island of…
Read moresearching for yoga love… weeks 5, 6, 7, 8 and a bit
Beachside yoga, aerial yoga with a real yogini, flexibility patience pays off, AYC madness, barre v yoga, and drum rolllll… real honest-to-goodness glimpses of yoga love. It’s finally, really happening!…
Read moresearching for yoga love… week 4
A bit of a delay posting but… my final week. It was the best of yoga and the worst of yoga. Was I in love with yoga by Sunday? Was…
Read morewilderness wellness at kwandwe, south africa
We’re living according to the rhythms of the day, surrounded by our planet’s animals at their wildest, and feeling the therapy of Mother Nature, the world’s most powerful healer. A…
Read moresearching for yoga love… week 3
This week I fell out with yoga. Our relationship suffered a low point exacerbated by injury, fatigue and routine. On the up side I actually practiced ‘some’ yoga every single…
Read moreyoga, tunes, spiritual wisdom, soul food
36 years of yoga practice, 18 years as a monk, Carlos Pomeda is an insightful, entertaining spiritual teacher. Hear him talk at Nealy Fischer’s next ‘From KEE to Zen‘ evening on…
Read moresearching for yoga love… week 2
Monday I started this week off with a beginners’ class at The Iyengar Yoga Centre of Hong Kong. I’d long been curious, I knew only sketchy details of B. K.…
Read moresearching for yoga love… week 1
Inspiring yoga and sound sleep get my month-long searching for yoga love challenge off to a good start. From gentle, calming lessons to beach fun, aerial yoga and asanas while flying…
Read morelong-haul recovery perfection in the middle east
It’s my belief that luxury is… Well, between two long-haul flights in cattle, absolute luxury is space, peace, unrushed TLC and being able to lie absolutely flat between cool, white…
Read moresearching for yoga love…
I believe in yoga. I want to make it a habit. I just haven’t fallen in love with it. Yet. So I’m challenging myself to a month of practicing yoga…
Read moreget out, workout, revive, repeat…
I love taking my workouts alfresco. And right now in South Africa I’m either jogging along a beach, horse riding through the Garden Route’s famed fynbos hills, kloofing (abseiling and…
Read moresimple, insightful tips for work and life
Love your work, to increase your energy, to keep focused on the present, to enrich your future, to spread happiness… Life 101. The Vedanta Treatise by Swami Parthasarathy is the book that was…
Read morespring cleaning… your nose!
Sounds delightful, doesn’t it! And hardly in keeping with the refined and beautiful palace and surrounds of Ananda in the Himalayas. However jal neti, the pouring of salt water up one…
Read morevoluntary-ish vomiting at ananda
It’s usually a latte, not two force-fed litres of warm salt water that I’m craving first thing in the morning. But at Ananda in the Himalayas it turns out not…
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