Entries Tagged as 'experience'

May 15, 2008

Bharat natyam and the art of not thinking

From the base of the spinal chord to the top of the head, let me tell you how bharat natyam dance does work out things for the one who practices.
The main position of the legs is that they have to be open with knees facing towards the outside: it is an initial position to understand [...]

May 11, 2008

Do you want to know how it feels to live on a beach for almost two decades? Read it here

There are many people nowadays who go for holiday in seaside places, in resorts on the beach. Many more are moving to the cities determined to work and live there and see the natural beaches only for vacation because of course in such a materialistic world we live today who is going to choose to stay [...]

May 10, 2008

Positive epidemy of Indian art-forms

Which I wanted to briefly recollect here based on two trips, one in India and one not far from home in Hong Kong. These are the epidemy we love to hear arent they? These artistical injecton of bubbling lovely effort to raise our awareness and our energy levels. To push them higher towards humble and [...]

May 4, 2008

Spirit is food to a city and foundation of urban education

A skype talk about urban education and spiritual foundations.

 
Lui from India: [Hong Kong] it is among the most globalized nation of the world. How is HK in terms of education.
 
Lei from Hong Kong: not very good actually, static. We shud get there, as yogis i mean. I know several teachers and when they talk i [...]

May 1, 2008

Child essay in Italian about freedom and slavery from Africa

Every morning a black man slave used to wake up and go to work in a cotton plantation. One day he was listening to his friends singing along the road. Those chants were laments of suffering and pain. In their melodies they used to pray and ask god to make them free from slavery and [...]

April 26, 2008

I cannot live too far from artistical views

It s quite visible from my window and easy to reach, They have called it Western Monastery. Probably beacause its architectural features are not 100% Chinese. It could be defined as an hybrid of Manciurian style (one of the last dinasties)  and modern way of building the temples in this side of the world. Infact the [...]

April 25, 2008

Designing lifestyles simply collective

At Salone del Mobile in Milan, Italy, they just concluded few days of new meetings, conferences, workshops and so on…all about designing. To greet the plethora of young designers coming from all over a new idea of “staying together” has been planned and realized. La Casa del designer - The designer’s home: 130 beds, services to share, [...]

April 24, 2008

Peaceful joke (it’s real)

They said this year this simbol of the peace is celebrating its 50ieth birthday. but wikipedia says it was born within the frame of the anti-nuclear discussion in the 60ies. Anyway i thought wow cool! and asked my husband jeff or ping kwan (his real name) “you know this symbol?” Yes - he said - it means [...]

April 14, 2008

Power spreads thru the writing ’side’ of us

 

Not everybody likes to write. Any people has one or more than one way to express something. Confident writing blog has proposed to reflect on Powerful writing in these days. I think that there is not too much to be said about powerful writing yet one could list plenty of reasons about it. Power is power. When the power is [...]

April 8, 2008

Developing love is basic reality to educate children

 
I spent more than an hour skyping with Clara and Vicky from England yesterday at my office. These two young girls, we were living together in Italy few years ago when I was nanny and their mother was pregnant of the third child. At office I did not have the microphone so could only write down everything [...]