Yoga: Bringing into Focus
What is the difference between jogging and doing yoga exercise? Answer: the iPod! A serious yoga practitioner will not find...
Sports/Health
Marjan van Ravenzwaaij
Marjan van Ravenzwaaij. The Dutch founder of The Organic Farm Bali – a natural sanctuary of wellness in the heart...
Bali’s Healthy Food Producers from A to Z
Our local food producers are island treasures. Practicing sustainable agricultural techniques and using pure ingredients with no preservatives or genetically...
Patterns of Health: The Lungs
The Balinese belief system is similar to the philosophical foundations of Chinese Medicine. According to the Balinese, the universe is...
Liat Solomon
Meet Liat Solomon. The owner of Zula, Down to Earth, and Earth Café where focus is on creating a better...
A Place Called Home
As I sit here in my empty apartment a weird feeling settles over me, it feels like insecurity mixed with...
Golf Should Be Fair
With all the talk of equipment bans, golf balls that fly too far, and the various rule changes, it has...
Where are Indonesia’ Top Football Players to Come From?
In the game of football, FIFA counts over 300 million players in 2012, mostly men and boys, but an increasing...
Maksim ABVGD
Meet Maksim ABVGD, the Soul Surfer From Russia. Maksim, where are you from? Originally I’m from Kazakhstan. I lived in...
Something For The Kids
A surfing and wrestling camp for kids is not the most likely combination. Sort of like the similarities between speaking...
I’m Addickted
No, that isn’t a spelling error, but you’ll have to read on to find out why. I first started wearing...
Football Fanatics and the Ideal of Sport
It’s only a few weeks to the European Champions League Final, May 25th, and though it will take place far...
Sports I.T.
IT development never stops and has found its way into sports, to make our life, during our games, easier and...
Rhyme Time: Indonesian Badminton
Its origins can be traced back to a game called Poona, British soldiers felt it was fun when they played...
Score! Girls Join Jakarta Football Association
The sound of the referee’s whistle pierces the humid afternoon. Players bolt into action vying for the soccer ball. There...
Putting For Effect (continued)
In last month’s instalment of the Expat Golfer, we focused on putting, the physical aspects of putting, the grip and...
Bent in Paradise
If you’re a certified Scuba diver, you know this scene too well; floating around beside a beautiful underwater wall abundant...
Street Food is Fast Food
Ubiquitous, cheap, filling, and, most importantly, delicious. Street food and Indonesia are often seen as one and the same. They...
Choice ‘Striving towards prosperity or striding towards excess’
What if having more meant enjoying less? Welcome to the age of ‘Affluenza’ or gluttony, this disease is marked by...
Adventures of Rexy – pilot, polo player, surfer, entertainer, entrepreneur – nice guy!
Westerners living in or visiting Bali think Balinese parents are irresponsible because they allow their children to ride motorbikes...
Patterns of Harmony in Digestive Health
Weight management is an ongoing issue for the health care profession worldwide. Today’s fast paced lifestyle needs plenty of discipline...