After spending a week in the bustle and hustle of Hanoi, we head out to visit an ancient farming village which has managed to stay relatively intact over the past 100 or so years. The ubiquitous triangular hats and water…
Video: First week in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Wish we could integrate smell and taste into the video to give you the full breadth of the Vietnamese experience. But, at least, we provide a video, on the basis that if a picture is worth a thousand words, a…
Early morning exercise in the park leads to a market find ~ Hanoi, Viet Nam
What to do when jetlagged and waking up at 4:30am? Join the locals of course and go for early morning exercise of stretching, yoga, walking etc… in the park around the lake, before the daily heat sets in. These people…
Some last vignettes of our life in Nicaragua ~ before we launch our Asia adventure
Nicaragua was of course about bamboo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzNGsQ3A3zc&t=531s Over a period of 6 years, we built a bamboo housing industry in a country with a dramatic housing shortage, and a massive amount of construction grade bamboo… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_WPU43ScRc&t=6s Our home was…
Last entry from Nicaragua ~ July, 2013
Finally coming out from under an “update embargo” due to the delicate nature of discussions with CO2 Bambu shareholders, creditors, customers, partners and employees, but FINALLY we can share what’s up. So what’s up is a fundamental move along our…
The Magic of Nicaragua
Yoga’s philosophical underpinning includes the belief that if you set your intentions clearly, universal forces will line up lifes’ cards and make clear intentions into reality. Such is the case for us yet again in Nicaragua. We say “yet again”…
Nicaragua Yoga teacher training
I join 39 other yogis for a teacher training certification course at the beautiful Aqua resort on the coast, just two hours from Granada. The course incorporates ancient wisdom (such as Yoga Sutra), the art of teaching, Pranayama (conscious breathing),…
Haiti reflections…
If you look at the map you can see that Haiti and Dominican Republic share one island. Haiti is French speaking and DR is Spanish. DR has one of the fastest…