by Robin Sparks | Oct 31, 2010 | Blog, Workshops
November 1, 2010 I arrived in Bali from Istanbul end of September, just days before our Write and Sell That Book Now! workshop. We had 14 students and the instructor, Joanna Penn, was AMAZING in every sense of the word. Each of us walked away from the workshop...
by Robin Sparks | Sep 12, 2010 | Blog, Where's Robin now?
And so here I am in Istanbul, the experiences from this rich summer piling high and fast creating quite the blog jam. The “when to live” vs. “when to stop living in order to write ” conundrum is a long standing one for me. I nearly always opt...
by Robin Sparks | May 10, 2010 | Blog
I have traded houses with a friend temporarily…my Sayan Jungalow for her home 5 minutes from central Ubud in Bali. I wanted to taste community again, she peace. We both got what we wanted, me in spades! I’ve been writing happily on my sunny terrace...
by Robin Sparks | May 4, 2010 | Blog
I am reading Lawrence Durrell’s book “Spirit of Place”. And it has got me thinking. (: Durrell, like myself, lived in places in order to intuit his heartbeat and considered himself more of a foreign residence writer than a travel writer. About capturing the essence of...
by Robin Sparks | Apr 5, 2010 | Blog, Published Articles
Originally published at Balispirit Festival Blog So many yoga classes, so much time… Even though the festival is officially over, I thought I’d add a dash of after-blogging to the after party spirit. On April 3, from some 25 classes, I selected Danny Paradise’s...
by Robin Sparks | Apr 4, 2010 | Blog, Published Articles
Originally published at the Balispirit Festival Blog. In December 2008, I heard there was a “famous” yogi named Rebecca Pflaum visiting Ubud. Having recently arrived in Bali after 3 years in Istanbul, and a year before that in Argentina, I was out of the international...
