Archive for month: December, 2008

obesity in the developed, starvation in the developing

How the international policies that govern the way we grow and trade food are leading to starvation, obesity, poverty, environmental pollution, and injustice. There are millions of starving people struggling in regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We’ve all known this for years. The usual explanation is that there are simply too many people [...]

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pranayama posture photos

Categories:health, india, pranayama, yoga

I just thought I’d post up a few pictures of the postures I demonstrate in the videos to make them as clear as possible. Upright Sitting Posture This posture is for those who have trouble sitting in any of the other postures.  Notice that I am not resting my back against the backrest, but am [...]

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series of pranayama videos

Since I got back from India, I’ve been wanting to do a series of videos on pranayama, since most of the videos I found that actually explained the techniques well were in Hindi.  Now that I finally have some free time, I’m going to really get these started.  I’ll try to make these as easy [...]

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chana masala and saag

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(click to enlarge) Since we’ve started putting out all our indian recipes, I’ve seen a lot of other chefs coming up with some really great Indian recipes.  I just found these two great recipes on the Raw Gastronomy.  I haven’t actually had a chance to try them out myself, but from the ingredients and the [...]

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internet explorer fix!!!

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Well we finally had time to look over the problem some people have been having with viewing our site in Internet Explorer.  It was a simple little problem, but just took me awhile to find. So now you can enjoy Roshis.com the way it was meant to be seen! Woohoo! -Rishi P.S.  If anyone is [...]

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rasmalai

Well, after 2 weeks of slaving away at school, I’m finally catching a break.  To enjoy this little break, I decided to make myself one of the treats that I’ve been missing most after coming back from India.  It’s a dessert called rasmalai (literally meaning the “juice of cream”).  Traditionally, rasmalai is a pretty labor [...]

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our trip to sedona and the grand canyon

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the whole family headed out to Arizona for a small vacation.  We first stayed one night at the Mago Retreat (http://sedonamagoretreat.org), a cool little meditation resort/center way out in a place I like to call the Middle of Nowhere.  It was literally took one hour to cover the dirt road leading [...]

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