How Yoga Helped Me Become a Better Writer

How Yoga Helped Me Become a Better Writer

My tryst with yoga began at the gym at my workplace in California. Returning to the laboratory six weeks after giving birth had not been easy. My body felt like a shapeless semi-deflated balloon. I dragged myself to work each day with sleep-deprived eyes that seemed...
Singapore At Home – Contributing To An Anthology

Singapore At Home – Contributing To An Anthology

  What’s better than having your book published? Having your work appear in another one! When I was informed that a piece I had written about life in Singapore in response to a call for submission for an anthology had been accepted, I had no idea that this book...
Teatime with my daughters – a pandemic treat

Teatime with my daughters – a pandemic treat

Like everyone, my plans for 2020 gradually disintegrated. From travel – a highly anticipated trip to Bhutan that has now been rescheduled, to the long-awaited milestone of my daughter’s college graduation that will most likely occur online, all plans for the...
How I discovered myself in an ashram

How I discovered myself in an ashram

“Yoga is the journey of the Self, to the Self, through the Self.”                    Bhagavad GitaSeveral years ago, I spent a month in an ashram in Kerala in order to get certified as a “yoga teacher.” I had been practising yoga for almost fifteen years,...