Sacred Ground Travel Magazine

Yoga scholars often differ in characterizing the exact relationshipbetween Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras and Buddhism. Karen O’Brien finds thetext weaving Buddhist strands into a Sankhya textile with the Buddhistterminology paralleling the Sankhya metaphysics...

Imagine yoga’shistory as India’s geography. You are flying over the Ganges River from itssource in the Himalayas to its mouth on the Bay of Bengal. You can’t see much.Most of the terrain is blanketed in clouds just as much of yoga’s past iscloaked in...

The Olmec city of La Venta has both warrior intimidation entrance and also a geek stimulation entrance, so dorks now rush in where savages once feared to even tread. There’s no pen holder bulging from my shirt or toilet paper dangling from my pants....

Not all who wander are lost!” wrote J. R. R. Tolkien. Yet, society urges folks to settle down, stay put, and fit in. The gray clouds drifting across the Veracruz sky above me look truly majestic, but drifters are gazed upon less fondly down here. When...