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Walk from Shanklin to Ventnor around the coast.

27/05/2015 By Erling McCracken Leave a Comment

A walk from Shanklin to Ventnor is enriching. The first part is a bit of an uphill beast, but once you leave the town behind, the views and the natural environment of the landslip make it worth the effort.

Some up and down hills, with steep areas, uneven paths and rickety steps.

There’s a couple of cream tea opportunities on the way, the oldest church on the Island, and the sea by your side all the way from Bonchurch to the beach, cafes and pubs of Ventnor. The No. 3 bus runs every half an hour back to Shanklin, but do check timetables.

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John Keats on the Isle of Wight

18/05/2015 By Erling McCracken 1 Comment

John Keats is strongly linked to the Isle of Wight, Islanders are proud of their Islands artist heritage.
John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died at the age of twenty five. During his short career he published fifty four poems, ‘in three slim volumes and a few magazines’. Having only become a poet in the last six years of his short life retrospectively he has become one of the best loved and often studied English poets. He stayed on the Isle of Wight during 1817-1819.

During that time, he resided in two houses, one in Castle Road in Carisbrooke and the other Eglantine Cottage in Shanklin.

The Book of Life, Krishnamurti

02/06/2014 By Erling McCracken Leave a Comment

Krishnamurti, Duality Creates Conflict.
Today’s meditation from Krishnamurti, The Book of Life, is from the section on Energy.

Conflict of any kind —-physically, psychologically, intellectually—–is a waste of energy. Please , it is extraordinarily difficult to understand and be free of this because most of us are brought up to struggle, to make an effort. When we are at school, that is the first thing we are taught—to make an effort. And that struggle, that effort is carried throughout life—that is, to be good, you must struggle, you must fight evil, you must resist, control. So educationally, sociologically, religiously, human beings are taught to struggle. You are told that to find God, you must work, discipline, do practice, twist and torture your soul, your mind, your body, deny, suppress; that you must not look; that you must fight, fight, fight at that so-called spiritual level—which is not the spiritual level at all. Then, socially each one is out for himself, for his family.

Who is Vanda Scaravelli, and why inspired Yoga? Good question.

28/05/2014 By Erling McCracken 2 Comments

What is Scaravelli inspired yoga? & who is Vanda Scaravelli?
Scaravelli Inspired Yoga is a form of Yoga practice that respects the ‘revolutionary’ understanding of yoga shared by Vanda Scaravelli during the later years and through her book ‘Awakening the Spine’.