Swinging at the tree house in Baños, Ecuador

Winners of the Small World micro-photography contest

In Focus has a selection of winning photos from Nikon’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. The picture featured above is a 40x view of the crystallization of tartrazine (dye primarily used as a food coloring), by Frederic Labaune, Education Nationale, Auxonne, France.

We trekked 10 miles in Colombia’s Valle de Cocora

Tiny Spiritual Retreat Cabins

For the new year, I’m planning on taking some time away from the computer to contemplate the next few months, practice some yoga and do some quiet meditation. While searching around for a retreat location, I kept running into meditation retreats and centers that had some sweet tiny houses, yurts and cabins for rent. Each […]

Could BKS Iyengar Win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Could B.K.S. Iyengar win the Nobel Peace Prize? He should, says a novelist and correspondent for Bloomberg’s World View in New Delhi as well as the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States who have initiated a worldwide effort to nominate him. But what does yoga have to do with peace, anyway? According to Chandrahas Choudhury, who […]