As the school vacations in Cordoba and Buenos Aires come to an end, more and more locals are resuming their normal activities. I too have been busy teaching yoga in various locations. I was invited to take a yoga class at the “House of Friendship” in neighboring Villa Dolores. I observed Ana Franco’s class which…
As the school vacations in Cordoba and Buenos Aires come to an end, more and more locals are resuming their normal activities. I too have been busy teaching yoga in various locations. I was invited to take a yoga class at the “House of Friendship” in neighboring Villa Dolores. I observed Ana Franco’s class which…
These next two weeks of my sabbatical in Los Hornillos, Cordoba, Argentina, have been filled with teaching and learning. I took advantage of the local school holidays and took extra Tabla Lessons, improving my overall ability to play but it also allowed me to work on my mathematical side. Esteban introduced the 3rd Kaida of…
Join me one my sabbatical journey in Argentina, combing Math, Yoga and Music – all in a foreign environment utilizing Spanish.
Dates: August 10th to August 19th, 2026 Join me on a nine day yoga retreat in beautiful Cordoba, located in the heart of Argentina. We will spend time in the mountains and valleys of the Traslasierra which is a region famous for its energy, incomparable scenery and hub of spiritual activities. We will have yoga…
Here is a Recap of Buenos Aires Yoga Retreat 2025
Last two days in Laos – from Luang Prabang to Vientiane. What a magical ten days in this beautiful country.
Luang Prabang Day 7 Today I went on a mountain bike ride with a guide while Tarli rested. My guide Kone picked me up at our hotel at around 8:30 am and to my surprise we drove to the elephant sanctuary that we stopped at on our day trip to the waterfalls and caves. It’s…
Luang Prabang Day 5 We got up somewhat early to go the train station. I had no idea what the check in process would be and was still a little wary about the tickets I had gotten online. They were just two separate QR codes for Tarli and I. To our relief, they got scanned…
Join us as we explore our next Laos destination – Vang Vieng.
Join Tarli and I on our first leg of our Laos adventure. We explore the capital Ventiane.
Join a unique yoga retreat in Buenos Aires from August 9th to 15th, 2025. Enjoy daily yoga classes by Nabeel Atique, explore iconic sites like La Boca, Recoleta Cemetery, and San Telmo Market, and immerse yourself in Argentine culture with a tango lesson and gourmet farewell dinner. Pricing starts at $1300 for double occupancy.
Buenos Aires Yoga Retreat 2025. Join me for a unique yoga journey as we discover the sights and sounds of Buenos Aires and relax with yoga everyday.
It’s been 20 years since I almost lost my life in Thailand. A lot has changed in the World in those years. A lot has changed in me. Here I recount my story of surviving the most catastrophic natural disaster of the last few centuries, despite being right in the thick of it. Two decades…
Last two days in Bali. A successful yoga retreat with art classes.
Days 8 and 9 in Bali, including beautiful Nusa Penida, another island. Yoga Retreat and Art Classes by Nabeel Atique and Tarli Bird.
Day 6 was on Friday. I woke up early and went for a sunrise walk along the beach. It was a beautiful morning. We had had a few busy days with lots of tours and eating out, I decided to stay at the lodge for most of the day. I was quite happy spending the…
A 10 day yoga retreat in Bali, Indonesia. This is a report of days 4 and 5. Wish you were here!
Days 2 and 3 of the Bali Yoga Retreat were so good! We toured the island and saw so much. And of course did lots of yoga.
Returned to Bali after four and a half years. This trip is filled with nostalgia. So much has happened in the last four years. Events such as my first Bali Yoga Retreat will be forever etched in my mind, like a historical marker. That’s why I am all the more excited to be back. What…
Yoga Retreat in Bali with Nabeel 10 nights in a luxury villa. Yoga everyday. Many optional activities.
Yoga Routine from Mount Kenya. 45 minute balance and strengthening routine.
What a week it has been. We arrived in Nairobi on December 30th, 2023. The following day we headed towards Mount Kenya. We will be here at the foothills of Mount Kenya for about 10 more days. Some days we can see the mountain and some days we cannot. It all depends on the cloud…
Yoga Retreat in Bali with Nabeel 10 nights in a luxury villa. Yoga everyday. Many optional activities.
Announcing my upcoming yoga retreat in Bali from June 23rd to July 3rd (11 days) DATES: June 23rd to July 3rd, 2024 I am excited to announce my second yoga retreat in Bali. What’s Included: Optional activities: COST Single Occupancy: $2200 Double Occupancy: $1800 Early Bird Special (if booked by October 31st) Single Occupancy: $2000…
I am back in Buenos Aires after a whole year! This time was special. Tarli visited me from Australia. And Jim and Marie from Fremont. It was their first time in Argentina. Hope you enjoy this post and can see Buenos Aires through the eyes of first time visitors. San Telmo Jim and Marie arrived…
Join me for a very special urban yoga retreat in the Argentine Capital of Buenos Aires. Dates: August 12 to August 18, 2023 Yoga with Nabeel – an experienced yoga teacher with 10 years yoga teaching experience. Alternative activities available for non-yogi participants Non-yogi participants have alternative activities Buenos Aires is known for it’s great…
Join me for a yoga retreat in Buenos Aires, like no other! Discover Buenos Aires’ main attractions and secret spots, off the beaten path. Visit the iconic Bombonera Football Stadium in La Boca. Take a stroll through the World’s most opulent cemetery in Recoleta. Enjoy the Market of San Telmo with it’s antiques, food stalls…
Price Reduction! $1600 for double occupancy and $1800 for single! Dates: August 12th to August 18th, 2023 If these dates do not work , then please contact me and I will see what I can do. Announcing a one of a kind mix of yoga and city life. Some Yin and Yang! In Argentina’s capital…
Jewel of the Sierra Nevada Minca the town was always a mystery to me. “Very popular with backpackers”. “Lots of foreigners”. “Instagram influencers’ paradise”. This is what I’d mostly been hearing about Minca. These are the type of commentaries that make me run fast in the opposite direction! When I travel, I usually prefer a…
An adventure into the Alta Guajira (High Guajira) of Colombia. Colombia’s treasured coast, and some say forgotten people. Here you abide by different laws – specifically those of the Wayuu. This is their earth, their land and their rules. I questioned if I should even be out here. This is the kind of place where…
After a year of teaching math by zoom and often staring at a bunch of unresponsive black boxes, I was ready for a change. Summer holidays were here. It was time to recharge the batteries and see the world again. One of the perks of being a college professor is the ability to tune out…
Two classes into Yogamatique’s inauguration we’ve had sign ups from: San Francisco, California Fremont, CaliforniaSeattle, Washington Buenos Aires, Argentina Corrientes, ArgentinaCali, ColombiaBogota, ColombiaSantiago, ChileLondon, UKMilan, ItalySeverodvinsk, Russia The idea was to have a safe, quality environment providing yoga for all. Connecting the World has been an added bonus. If you haven’t signed up for a class yet, let…
Sign up for a class and get a zoom link sent to your email right away! Check out the new web-site, offering online yoga classes and a variety of packages: Individual Plan – unlimited classes for one person Family Plan – unlimited classes for you and your household Sunday Only Plan – class every Sunday…
Part 6 I cannot help but preface this article by saying that these events happened almost exactly one year ago. How the world has changed and what an awakening of sorts. Read through this to see what my last couple weeks of August 2019 were like. Will they ever be the same? August 20th, 2019…
Part 5 I left Buenos Aires for Cali on August 7th by way of Bogota. I had an entire day in Bogota and being the biking aficionado that I am, I decided to take a tour of the city with Bogota Bike Tours. Some great graffiti! The National Museum I had done the tour in…
Part 4 Having just had the most amazing five weeks in Colombia, I left for Buenos Aires on July 22nd with a full heart. I had a one day stop over in Chile and I spent it with my two favorite Chileans Christian and Natalia. I had met them in the Atacama Desert on a…
Part 3 I haven’t written in more than a month. March 12th to be precise. A lot has happened since then, to put it lightly. But now I am back to chronicling my 9 months away from home, during the months of June through February. The last article “The Journey Begins” chronicled my whirlwind tours…
In these troubled times I am providing FREE yoga classes and have inaugurated Yogamatique Online Yoga Studio. The current world situation will not stop my dreams and I see this as an opportunity to change lanes and provide a different service, that will hopefully help us stay grounded and sane in these difficult times. Self…
Chile, Bolivia and Peru Part 2 June 1st to June 17th The central point of my year off would be taking care of myself after an extremely difficult past two years and taking care of my Mom’s affairs back home in Bangladesh. Having worked on the paperwork for the past two years and taken care…
Buenos Aires’ Premier Yoga Studio for Yoga Classes in English Located in the heart of Palermo, Buenos Aires this studio is walking distance to Buenos Aires’ best cafes and bistros. As well as parks and cultural centers. IN PERSON CLASSES POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Online classes available at Yogamatique Online Studio Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wim7gBBbTwk&t=7s This…
Part 1 How does one deal with the unexpected death of a parent? It’s something you never think about. You don’t plan for. I loved my mother. She was everything to me. I lost my father at the young age of 18. I was still finding myself. It was sad and devastating. But losing my…
Day 6, January 20th, 2020 Today we were joined in the morning by Abbie and Rowan, our new friends from Bristol. Also joining in was Ishita who I had met at the airport. Joyce was the remaining yoga retreat student and it was nice to have additional students, making it a full and fun class.…
Day 4, January 18th, 2020 Today we started the day with 8 am yoga. Again the students did a fabulous job. After that the students had a free day to explore Seminyak. I used this time to catch up on my writing and get some laps in the pool. All in all a very productive…
Day 1, January 15th, 2020 I got into Bali around 11:45 am. Full of excitement. I was going to meet my team of 4 students in a few hours. Joyce would be the first to arrive at 3:30pm and then Rosa, Augosto and Lorenzo would be next at 5:30pm. What do I do for 3…
I am in Greece. Specifically I am on a Greek Island called Paros. At this moment in time I am the envy of many! I do consider myself very fortunate to be here. I really did not do much research regarding the place. Reason being, I am here for a 300 hour yoga teacher training.…
I lived in Rome from 1980 to 1984. Those were the golden years of my childhood. My first crush. My first real bicycle, Italian at that. My first time playing soccer for the school team. Learning Italian for the first time. I can go on and on … Piazza Navona My father was sent to…
September 16-19th , 2019 I used to visit Europe at least once every two years. My love of Latin America, specifically Buenos Aires kept me from going to Europe for the last 5 years. But with the many changes occurring in my life, it was inevitable that I would once again be visiting the continent…
This has been a long term project of mine for several years. Ever since one of my Swiss friends who I had first met at a homestay in Buenos Aires had reacted “there are mountains in California!?” when I had told her I loved where I lived because of the mountain biking, snowboarding and the…
PROLOGUE January 1-3, 2019 Ushuaia, Argentina It’s December 24th, 2018. I am wandering through the streets of Ushuaia, desperately trying to find a passage to Antarctica. This was not the original plan. “Tierra del Fuego” (the Land of Fire) has inspired me. I want to know what lies beyond … beyond these frigid waters ……
I am at Sarky’s in Buenos Aires – hands down my favorite restaurant in town. It’s Armenian food. Go figure! Armenian food in Buenos Aires the home of Bife Chorizo, Empanadas and Milanesas. I am at dinner with old friends and new – that is the beauty of Buenos Aires. If you are at the…
It’s time for some hard questions. Are you ready? I was born in 1970 in a land that was erstwhile Pakistan. You will never ever hear me say I was born a Pakistani. I am a Bengali. It’s 1971, East Pakistan has had it with West Pakistan. Divided by India in between, these two parts…
July 23, 2019 Travels through South America – Chapter Two I just arrived in Buenos Aires. It’s 10:00 pm. Just as always, my taxi driver is animated and eager to talk about the economic situation and corruption in the government and the government-controlled media. Then he takes it to a whole other level – IMF…
July 14-21, 2019 San Andrés, Colombia I had never even heard of San Andrés until recently. My friend in Cali, Natalia had mentioned to me that San Andrés was her second favorite place in the world. Like me, her favorite is Buenos Aires 🙂 So after spending two amazing weeks in Cali, I decided to…
“The Lost City” June 23-26, 2019 La Ciudád Perdida, Colombia After a few days of recuperation in Medellín from my whirlwind tour of Santiago, Valparaiso, Viña del Mar & the Atacama Desert (Chile), Uyuni Salt Flats & Death Road (Bolivia) and Arequipa & Colca Canyon (Peru), I was to tackle the Lost City hike all…
Hello peeps. Sorry for this interruption…to my standard feed. Recently I’ve been pondering the question “what does yoga mean to me?” It is a question that has come to surface recently because as I travel, I meet more and more people who are curious about yoga and I have to describe yoga in a few…
June 17-21 Medellín, Colombia Next stop Colombia! I had good memories of my previous stay in Medellín last year and I returned to the land of the Paísa for a bit of a longer stay this time. I had been traveling with a heavy duty schedule for the last two and a half weeks and…
June 14-16 Colca Canyon, Peru I was picked up at 3:00am from the Casona Plaza Hotel near the main square (Plaza de Armas) in Arequipa. I was in a big bus with a lot of people, so I felt a little confused at first. Then I realized that there was a mix of people on…
The White City June 13th, 2019 Arequipa, Peru I felt surprisingly good after a 24 hour bus journey from La Paz. The fact that I slept a solid 6 or 7 hours on the night bus made all the difference. At about 10:00 am I ventured into town. I first found Plaza de Armas, the…
(Island of the Sun, Copacabana, Bolivia) June 12-13, 2019 Bolivia Hop from La Paz to Arequipa via Copacabana and Puno I was picked up on time in La Paz by the guide from Bolivia Hop at about 7:15 am. They were originally scheduled to pick me up by 6:45 am and I would have missed…
June 10-11, 2019 El Camino de La Muerte (Death Road) Revisited Uyuni – as small as a town as it is – has an airport! Marvelous! I was able to fly to La Paz in 45 minutes. It’s probably one of the smallest airports I’ve traveled through for one of the shortest flights I’ve taken.…
June 8-10, 2019 San Pedro de Atacama to Uyuni Salt Flats Despite the late night of galaxy gazing, I managed to get some sleep and was excited to take the trip to the salt flats of Bolivia. One of the best parts about this trip was that I did very little research and I also…
June 2-3, 2019 Southern Chile It’s hard to sum up a journey through South America in a few words, especially since it’s such a vast continent with so much diversity in landscape and culture. My travels began in Santiago, Chile. I left my home in the Bay Area on June 1st. Seemed like a good…
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I am a wanderer, yoga teacher, math teacher and overall adventurer. I have a strong love for Latin America and have been traveling there since 2002. I speak fluent Spanish so that certainly helps me make strong connections.Follow me on my latest adventure through Latin America and other continents. I hope you find my writings…
