searching 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.…
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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 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…
Read moreananda – a down-to-earth retreat up in the clouds
Here at spas+beyond we are celebrating India’s most colourful festival, Holi, with a series of blogs on the divine retreat Ananda in the Himalayas, the place to learn new detox skills…
Read more10 of asia’s best retreats during the peaceful year of the goat
Goodbye galloping horse, hello harmonious goat! This February marks the start of the lunar year of the green wooden goat (or, confusingly, sheep or ram). Wood is associated with spring…
Read moreit’s about love, people!
It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and I’ll bet there are a bunch of you who haven’t done the panic buying of the gift yet. I’m not a great one for putting…
Read more10 amazing life lessons from master healer anup karlsson
Originally from the Uk, Anup is a healer. His talents are wrapped up in titles like life coach and spiritual coach, international speaker and seminar leader, mentor and Reiki master.…
Read moreanyone for cantoga? or yogantonese?
When is yoga not pure yoga? When it’s a Cantonese lesson. At Hong Kong’s Yoga Bam Bam studio, instructor Matina Cheung gently repeats and repeats Canto vocab until you’re thinking…
Read moregive up counting sheep for 2015
For anyone who needs some serious catch-up on their zzzs, Six Senses’ new Yogic Sleep retreats leave you totally refreshed, with new reserves of energy and new sleep skills to take home.…
Read morethe french paradox at caudalie, hong kong
Caudalie’s new spa is a doozy, a sweet satellite of their gorgeous Bordeaux resort Les Sources. Right at the start of super-hip Gough Street, it’s tough to pass the arched…
Read morethe power of competition on moving more
One of the best ways for me to get myself moving is to sign up for a race. It gives me an unmovable deadline, keeps me training for fear of…
Read morehong kong’s record-breaking yoga class
History was made recently, when Hong Kong’s biggest om of yogis and yoginis took to their mats at Central Harbourfront during the Green Summer Festival for #OmTogether. Over 600 people,…
Read moreprana yum’s divine sugar-free drinks
It’s tough to find a commercially produced drink that isn’t full of sugar, unnatural ingredients and harmful additives. We all should have known better than to believe that Vitamin Water…
Read more5 super easy superfoods
From chia seeds to goji berries, oily fish to dark chocolate, garlic to green tea, there’s an increasing array of ‘superfoods’ on local supermarket shelves in Hong Kong these days.…
Read morehow do you go from carnivore to vegetarian?
From committed carnivore to loving meat free Mondays to going vegetarian or even vegan – what are the psychological steps? Stubborn refusal to gradual understanding and finally the lightbulb moment? Me, I’m…
Read morebest juice detoxes in hong kong
Ask anyone trying to kick-start their diet and fitness program for the summer, and you may find they are convinced that juice detoxes or cleanses are the way to go. We…
Read morenealy fischer – born to spread wellness
This weekend a stellar collection of lifestyle and wellness household names fly in to Hong Kong for the MAYYA Urban Wellness Retreat. A 24-hour wellness smorgasbord of nutrition, fitness, yoga and…
Read morediary of an ultra-runner: marathon des sables
Neil Orvay, co-founder of Hong Kong’s Sense of Touch spas, shares the sun, sand and sweat of running the Marathon des Sables 2014. During the six days of 250 punishing…
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