Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Ashtanga Yoga is a Road to Self-Discovery

Ashtanga yoga works slowly – the improvement is not visible at early stages. However, gradually, you become strong and build strong muscles. This is all possible by practicing regularly. It is said that flexibility in human body can take up to years or even a lifetime to master it. Self Discovery:  Yoga is an ongoing process […]

1/11 Art: Ai Wei Wei’s installation ‘he xie’

Ai Wei Wei’s ground-bound installation ‘he xie’ collects the forms of hundreds porcelain crabs situated in a heap in the main exhibition space. The work is saturated in social symbolism; ‘he xie’ translates to ‘river crab’ but sounds very similar to the mandarin word meaning ‘harmonization’, the state’s euphemism suggesting censorship. The political double meaning […]

Where we are: Medellín, Colombia

Rohr: Jesus and Buddha

In many ways, Jesus and Buddha were talking about a very similar process of human transformation. Pain is the foundational teacher of transformation for both of them, which led to compassion in Buddhist language and love in Christian language (I accept the common definition that our suffering is the degree of resistance we have toward […]