Deep Desert Christmas

For me, Christmas is irrevocably linked to summertime, swimming, salads, smoked ham, chicken and turkey (all served cold), prawns and other seafood, and too much brandy trifle. My blogging friend, Svasti, has written a blog post that captures joyous summertime essence of what Christmas means in Australia. Please read it here.
Living in Central Australia means [...]

PhD Pages Added

 
 
 
 
 
I’m currently working on the (promised elsewhere) Desert Christmas post (just need the photos from Mr AnthroYogini’s computer). However, it’s high time I put some solid anthropology up on this site.
I’ve added PhD Pages to the top of the main page. If you’re interested in joint management, co-management, the process of writing a PhD or you’re just curious, please take a [...]

Notes on the NT Intervention Part II

Book Review – The 4 Hour Work Week

The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss, is a book with a pretentious -if not slightly unbelievable- title.
When I first became aware of the book about a year ago, I thought: oh yeah, another self-help book with the promise of becoming a self-made millionaire in the same time it takes for you to go through the [...]

The Weather Makers

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery is a scary, sobering book.
 
For those of us who understand ascribe to the Yamas, such a book should immediately resonate. For those of us interested in human culture and its effects upon other species, this book is also of interest. The book is about human effects on climate and [...]

Emergence

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I walked into the gym Wednesday afternoon to do (not teach) Body Attack. For almost two years, every Monday and Wednesday afternoon I have taught Body Attack with my daughter, Rhiannon.
I stood in the change room, and it hit me: Rhiannon is gone. I cried. I sent her a text message. I felt lost without [...]

Exhaustion

I am so tired, I could sleep for a week and still need more.
The last three days of the intensive were good. Better than the rest. There was an awesome kirtan on Sunday night. One of the participants made MP3 recordings of all of the lectures (including the kirtan) assembled the files and made copies [...]

Intensive Reflections

I’ve been holed up at a yoga intensive for the past seven days. There are four days of the intensive left to go, and I will say this: it hasn’t been easy.
 
I will admit that things were stacked against me from the start, and I wasn’t really looking forward to the course. The PhD stress, [...]