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...away for the whole weekend, the Chopra Center & Spa in New York City is offering the "Cupid's Kiss" package starting with a Navina Sensory Bath - filled with herbs and essentials oils to detoxify and replenish the skin - for two. Once waterlogged, you start an 80-min. Odyssey Ayurvedic treatment with five therapies - among them, a Garshana exfoliating treatment, an Abhyanga tension-dissolving massage and a Vishesh treatment, during which technicians use firm, precise hand strokes to deepen the healing process. The tactile adventure finishes off with a Marma treatment to revitalize your inner energy. (I'm not sure what...
Reports trickling out in recent weeks from various countries lining the Andaman Sea have related portions of this ordeal as well as other, similar incidents involving the same ethnic group. But the tale of one survivor has emerged that, if accurate, paints a picture of a dehumanizing odyssey, portraying the actions of surrounding governments in horrific tones. The man's name is Muzaffar, and his testimony was obtained over cell phone from his place of temporary detention in India by the Arakan Project, a Bangkok-based group advocating the rights of these boat people. Muzaffar's account appears to amplify...
...referencing a New Testament biblical character weren’t taking it back far enough, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds decided to add even more of a throw back with track “Night of the Lotus Eaters.” Referencing Homer’s Odyssey is about as old school as the Western literary tradition goes, so props for that, Nick. 4. The Mars Volta’s “Bedlam in Goliath.” You can pretty much always count on The Mars Volta to do something you can’t understand...
...life as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow to continue her education as a poet, non-fiction writer, and thinker. Lewis, who studied as a graduate student at Harvard from 1982-1983, originally wanted to return to the University to work on an epic poem titled “A Hospital Odyssey.” But she found herself embarking upon her position as the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow having unexpectedly completed most of the work on the poem.“I confessed all to the Radcliffe people and they didn’t mind,” she says.As...
...writer in search of truth “is like a member of the special forces, who goes into enemy territory to carry out existential maneuvers.” Lewis discussed how her own personal bouts of depression shaped her poetry. She pointed to “A Hospital Odyssey,” the epic poem that she is working on for her Institute project, as an investigation of the difficult territories into which writers sometimes venture. The epic is based on her experiences as a wife whose spouse was diagnosed with cancer. While caring for her husband, Leighton...