Sarine Arslanian
Contributor
The kambo medicine uses the secretion of the green tree frog. We speak to Tanja Lucev, who organises kambo retreats in Guatemala, about the benefits of the traditional shamanic experience.
We speak to Angélico Jiménez from Oaxaca, Mexico, an artist who carves alebrijes. These fantastic wooden animal figures and their unique patterns preserve Zapotec identity and empower his community.
Millions of Bahá’ís celebrate the bicentenary of Bahá’u’lláh’s birth with messages of peace, oneness, empowerment and spiritual unification. The photos of festivities all around the world.
We talk to the owners of silent meditation retreat The Hermitage about the methods for and benefits of awakening to a more peaceful reality by going beyond the mind, in silence and meditation.
When it comes to land travel the Eskimo people, also known as Inuit, have a good understanding of what distances mean as their land stretched over 13 time zones – yet according to their Elders, the greatest distance in one’s existence remains from one’s mind to one’s heart. “It is really true,” says Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, an indigenous Eskimo-Kalaallit
The challenges that indigenous Maya women currently face in Guatemala are complex and numerous but if we had to sum them up in one word, it would be exclusion. This according to Rosalia, a 33-year old associate artisan at Teixchel, a sustainable weaving association in San Pedro La Laguna, on the shore of Lake Atitlán, that uses exclusively nontoxic eco and
After 10 years the Eastern black rhino is back in Akagera National Park, a magnificent 112,000 hectare reserve in eastern Rwanda. After the reinsertion of lions in 2015, the reintroduction of 18 rhinos in May was significant as it makes the park, and more generally Rwanda, a “big five” destination once again – home to large African species: rhinos,
Maximón, also known as San Simón, is an important Mayan folk saint in Guatemala represented by a dressed up wooden effigy sitting on a chair who, unlike other saints, smokes cigars and drinks alcohol. Today Maximón is actively worshipped as part of what we could refer to as “folk Catholicism“, especially in the highlands of
The ancient Mesoamerican civilisation of the Mayans worked out a common denominator linking planets’ cycles, human gestation cycles and the life cycles of maize. In other words they designed a calendar system broken down in 20 periods of 13 days, each with special flavour to it, linking the heart of heaven, the human heart and
Antenna, leading provider of audio and multimedia museum experiences, is responsible for developing experiences that make sightseeing around museums possible, meaningful and entertaining for visually impaired or deaf visitors. High-tech multimedia plays a crucial role. What Antenna does Christine Murray, Senior Creative Strategist for Antenna, shares her view about the two current trends she finds most inspiring:
About 800 years ago, the Digo people were pushed out of Somalia and Northern Kenya following ethnic tensions. They migrated to the South Coast of Kenya to establish themselves deep within the forest. There, they built Kayas, meaning ‘home’ or ‘village’ in the local dialect. In every Kaya, you could find huts, graveyards, and a
