Save the rhino: end horn trade ban
The slaughter of rhino for their horn—combined with the failure of the ban on international trade in rhino horn—is decimating Africa’s rhino population. Linked to […]
Innate Motion and the power of two (women)
KANCHANA MOODLIAR and YASMIN KATHORIA, business humanizers, explain what ‘humanizing business’ means when crafting brands and tell WANDA HENNIG why embracing the feminine makes good […]
Yasmin Kathoria: Innate Motion and Business Success
No borders, no bricks, no bullshit — and BCorp. These are at the heart of the Innate Motion business transformation ethos. Yasmin Kathoria is a […]
Innate Motion’s Yasmin Kathoria: Success Tips for Women
Yasmin Kathoria was a director at Unilever—one of few women to hold such a title—before she joined global Innate Motion as one of two South […]
SAfm Otherwise: Shado Twala speaks to Wanda Hennig about Cravings (Podcast)
Shado’s interviews are more of a conversation than a straight Q&A. How ‘Cravings…’ came about and what it deals with. Depression, social phobia, meditation, celibacy… I was blown away that ‘Otherwise’ host Shado Twala had read my book, liked it — and ”got it”— knowing it will speak to some people, not to others. Hopfully to “the right people” in an affirming, empowering way…
Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir…
In this insightful gem, journalist and life coach Wanda Hennig writes wisely, hilariously and sometimes poignantly about sex and food; living for three-and-a-half years at the San Francisco Zen Center; moving solo from one continent to another; meditation; creative mindfulness strategies and more. Cravings: A Zen-inspired memoir about sensual pleasures, freedom from dark places, and living and eating with abandon (Say Yes Press). Edition Two (Mouth Orgasm edition) published August 2017 (ISBN 9780996820523 paperback; ISBN 9780996820523 eBook).
Why Sunshine’s Felicity Vonmoos is a good egg
Felicity Vonmoos has stuck her finger up more chicken a-holes than she cares to remember. Hey, she’s a good mom! “Nine times out of 10 if a chicken looks unhappy, it’s because there’s an egg stuck in breach position. I turn it, make it easier for her to lay. Then she dashes off to eat.” Hens are great little creatures, she adds. “They just ask for food, love and water and in return, they work really hard and earn their keep. They lay an egg a day.”
Hare Krishna Festival of Chariots Durban
Singing and chanting Hare Krishna devotees of all ages—and the interested and curious—gather in Durban over Easter weekend to pull their three lofty chariots that sail along the beachfront festooned with thousands of flower garlands and billowing brilliantly colored fabric canopies. Travel blogger Wanda Hennig joins the devotees, who also prepare fresh vegetarian meals for the hungry. It’s a celebration.
Zen, mindfulness and overcoming depression
Current brain research and the discovery that neurons that fire together, wire together is producing concrete evidence for something Buddhist practitioners have maintained for centuries: the sustained practice of mindfulness can change the workings of the brain at a molecular level and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness. In light of this the San Francisco Zen Center has been offering mindfulness and depression workshops for the past ten years.
Plentiful: The Big Book of Buddha Food launch notes
Plentiful: The Big Book of Buddha Food (Jacana) is the Buddhist Retreat Center’s third cookbook. Plentiful was launched at Adams Bookstore in Durban by journalist and longtime Zen student Wanda Hennig. Plentiful’s chef is Paul Atkinson. Editor is Chrisi van Loon. Photographer is Angela Shaw.