A Beautiful Union of Rolfing Feldenkrais What do you get when you marry Rolfing with Feldenkrais A whole new system called Somalogy Tyr Throne founder of Somalogy Youthing Systems and AquaSoma and director of these training programs in the US Europe Canada Central America and Asia has helped thousands of people over the last 30 years He is certified in Advanced Structural Integration Feldenkrais Bones for Life NLP Yoga and Meditation and is also an awardwinning director of dance and theater Tyr has a very special gift which he happily shares with the world He cares about how to help people get back to what they love to do Tyr says he is grateful to the Structural integration work because it helps him to see how to untwist something thatrsquos out of alignment in someonersquos body while Feldenkrais gives him the tools to help people learn how to have better posture and move with greater ease Tyr had grants from the Sida progra
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A different Take on Trust
A different Take on Trust You may have noticed that many people here promise something but easily break their promise This could be a friend visiting turning up to work completing an order turning up on time or simply turning up In some cultures like Japan for example not keeping your word can have automatic dire consequences you could lose a friend a reputation a job and even a potential career Sure in other cultures we may not keep our promises on occasion but unlike Bali itrsquos not an unwritten rule Here itrsquos as if not keeping a promise ndash being unreliable or worse still not trustworthy ndash is something that is a lot more relaxed in fact considered the norm While people from other cultures may get angry and potentially cut off ties with or fire someone on the spot for being unreliabl
Read moreA Kettle Of Fish
A Kettle Of Fish I wonder what the collective noun is for motorcycles The way people ride in Bali it must be the same as for mosquitoes a scourge of motorcycles Bicycles That must be a bother a bother of bikes Then we have a trouble of builders a worry of architects and for a bunch of right wing politicians we have a tea party We all know the collective noun for fish is a kettle and of course for crabs is a dose When we talk about quantities we have to wonder which of the worldrsquos countries has the largest population Itrsquos an interesting question but are we talking about the number of people or the amount of people These days a typical supersized English personbeing is getting rather large and in terms of total mass the population of Shanghai is eclipsed by the male voice choir of Upper Nether Wallop a place noted for having more fastfood joints per stomach than anywhere else in the U
Read moreA Rock n Roll star at a Writers Festivalby Sarita Newson
A Rock lsquonrsquo Roll star at a Writersrsquo Festivalby Sarita Newson Gede Robi Supriyanto Robi Navicula is a Balinese rock musician activist writer farmer director of Akarumputcom and a certified permaculture designer who teaches organic farming around Indonesia Robi is the vocalist guitarist and founder of popular Indie rock band Navicula combining his activism and music as tools for social change Since 1996 in Bali they have released seven albums and won awards internationally toured Canada the United States and Australia They collaborate with organisations such as Greenpeace Indonesia Corruption Watch ICW Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia LIPI Wahana Lingkungan Hidup Indonesia Walhi and the farmers union Serikat Petani Indonesia SPI At Ubud Writers Readers Festival 2014 Robi participated with two ot
Read moreAlas Purwo Making it Rough to Save It By Bill Dalton
Alas Purwo Making it Rough to Save It By Bill Dalton One days hard drive from Bali at the end of a long dark corridor through a mahogany forest lies a mammoth and richly endowed national park essentially unbeknownst to tourists Alas Purwo on Blambangan Peninsula at the southeastern tip of East Java province is renown for its lowland tropical rainforests huge banteng cattle scenic proximity to the ocean pilgrimage spiritual sites and worldclass surfing Although this national treasure boasts one of the best lefthanders in the world at Gland I discovered that the vast reaches of the park in the islands easternmost regency are emphatically not just for surfers Along with Banyuwangis Ijen Plateau this unique reserve is an estimable tourist destination in its own right The seacoast at Plengkung Gland on Grajagan B
Read moreAll About Indonesia by Linda Hibbs
All About Indonesia by Linda HibbsAll About Indonesia is a childrens book that takes children on an adventure through one of the worlds largest and most culturally diverse countries Along the way kids are introduced to what everyday life is currently like for its inhabitants The book has a little bit of everything offering an overview of Indonesian landscapes history government language culture food transportation systems the countrys natural beauty special celebrations and variety of religions Most books that have been produced about Indonesia for children tend to give a geographical tour of the main islands with accompanying photos often throwing in statistics and historical information that children cant really relate to Targeted to 3rd to 5th grade children a unique aspect of All About Indonesia are the hands on activities that allow kids or par
Read moreAlphamama Brings Her Artistry To Ubudby Renee Melchert Thorpe
Alphamama Brings Her Artistry To Ubudby Renee Melchert Thorpe The 2014 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival had a special theme of Saraswati Wisdom and Knowledge In reverence to the goddess of Arts and Literature the Festival featured extra artists in visual and musical endeavors Arguably the most creative band to come together for the timehonored closing party was a conglomeration of percussionists vocalists and assorted instrumentalists like Ben Walsh blazing riffs on drums built from junk that very day and the incomparable vocalist Toni Childs Australian renaissance woman whose father is from Manado Sulawesi Alphamama was also jamming onstage playing keyboards and singing her original music while the crowd swayed in appreciation We caught up with Alphamama while she was on tour in Africa in November Tell me about what yoursquore doing in South Africa
Read moreAmaretti Espresso Custards
Against the background of Javanese culture and the fading power of Japanese occupiers Java in a Time of Revolution explores the origins of revolutionary youth groups the military and political parties with remarkable scope and in scrupulous detail First published in 1972 by Cornell University Press this classic was brought back to life by Equinox Publishing kicking off the publishers Classic Indonesia series in 2007
Read moreAn Economy of Words – Learning to listen to others By Sarita Newson
An Economy of Words ndash Learning to listen to othersBy Sarita Newson ldquoPoets are the economists of words carving a fortune of meaning out of a frugality of wordsrdquo This was the introduction to an Ubud Writers Readers Festival discussion on the 3rd October 2014 led by a group of young poets who ldquoprune big stories down to size using the fine art of poetryrdquo I was happy to soak up the aspirations and inspiring influences words and thoughts of the five poets contributing to this session In spite of their radically different backgrounds their words spoke of their mutual love of language and an awareness of the importance of selfexpression in people of all ages Carlos Andrs Gmez chaired the session and encouraged interaction soliciting audience participation throughout His questions ldquoWha
Read moreAs Without So Within… The Promise Perils of NanoTech
As Without So WithinhellipThe Promise Perils of NanoTech Just as we are starting to get our minds to contemplate infinity and what lies beyond the Big Bang so to too do we start to grasp the faintest glimmerings of Quantum and the infinitesimally small Of course the metaphysically minded of us probably know or have some experience of both already albeit without the scientific trimmings Wersquove long fantasized about what we could do with the very small For many our thoughts immediately go to the amazing and seemingly limitless medical possibilities Directing healing medications to places hitherto inaccessible and vanishing tumours become realities The thing about Quantum though is nobody quite knows for sure what happens there So we need to have a carehellip When it comes to food for example we may thin
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