Kurma

I knew Woody Allen was a thoughtful man when I saw Hannah and Her Sisters twenty something years ago. In the movie, Allen's famously repressed Manhattan Jewish character thinks about converting to Christianity or even to becoming a Hare Krishna.

A new, humorous article from The New Yorker is definitely stamped all over with Mr Allen's crackling Jewish humour, as he again touches on the subject that ran through his mind in Hannah: reincarnation.

As Woody says, "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

Read the article... (remember it runs over two pages)

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Mangrove Mountain sounds very exotic. It is, actually, being full of forests and farms and rural retreats. It's about two and a half hours drive north from Sydney to New South Wales' Central Coast, and is home for the followers of Satyananda Yoga. Here's an aerial view of the region.

Last year I conducted a successful cookery weekend for the staff members at the ashram, and, as planned, I returned again last weekend to teach a two-day cookery workshop to the public, entitled 'Anna Yoga - Cooking with Kurma'. Here's a potted tour of the weekend:

Our 24 ultra-enthusiastic team members pose with a few standard-issue kitchen bowls.

Father and son in action.

Some of our effulgent crew on cashew-bifurcation duties.

Showing them exactly how to roll a poorie.

Raj and Nitai grate coconut with a nifty machine.

Clare and Debi plan their attack.

The ever-colourful Inneke agape at the giant pot of matar panir.

Matt and Raj on cardamon grinding duties.

So many nuts and so little time.

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