Author Archives: Jwalant Swaroop

The land of Lindt balls, banking, timepieces and – lately – Tina Turner, Switzerland has frequently been named the world’s happiest country in surveys spanning decades. But no one’s quite sure why – least of the swiss. A landlocked, mountainous country with four languages,

We have good food, good friends, good seasons – and joy de vivre is the commonly used term to describe happiness in Canada.’ Joie de vivre is especially prevalent in Quebec,

Imagine an evening so warm that you are out without a coat. The sun is dipped below the horizon out the cobbled street give off a welcome heat and there’s a flicker of anticipation, a feeling in the air that the night ahead exist only for pleasure.

As Ricard Layard, of the London school of Economics, states: ” We have more food, more clothes, more cars, bigger houses, more central heating, more foreign holidays, a shorter working week, nice work and above all, better health. Yet we are not happier…..If we want people to be happier, we really h ave to know what conditions generate happiness and how cultivate them.”

The advent of modernity hasn’t been without its challenges, either. Technology has been a disruption. With Television arriving in the 1990s (See wrestle mania) and a  few of Bhutan’s sixty or so different dialects from fragmented communities starting to die out in favour of english or Dzongkha ( The National Language).

Restorative Yoga is a science of deep relaxation through yoga practices. The Headstand (Sirsasana) posture is dream of every yoga practitioner and is one of the most widely recognized advanced poses of yoga.