Sacred Ground Travel Magazine

There is a widespread perception that Eastern and Western spirituality are as distant and divergent as a Japanese Buddhist temple and an Ang...

Yoga scholars often differ in characterizing the exact relationship between Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras and Buddhism. Karen O’Brien finds the te...

Imagine yoga’s history as India’s geography. You are flying over the Ganges River from its source in the Himalayas to its mouth on the Bay o...

The Olmec city of La Venta has both warrior intimidation entrance and also a geek stimulation entrance, so dorks now rush in where savages o...

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 driftin...

The tossed concrete-block salad that is today’s Acayucan recalls the crumbling stone-block ruins of yesterday’s Olmec settlements without th...

A crocodile thrashes beneath me. Squawking and dripping of the rainforest where Mel Gibson filmed Apocalypto and Sean Connery filmed Medicin...

Between the Bhagavad Gita’s spiritual yoga and the Hatha Pradipika’s physical yoga lies the Yoga Sutras text. The wisdom of the Yoga Sutra...

As detailed in our last post, the Bhagavad Gita expounded classical yoga with an epic drama. Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras then expanded classica...