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T-Online Tagesanbruch
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SPIEGEL Update am Morgen
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Tony Giles – blind solo traveller
Tony Giles – blind solo traveller
You don’t need to see to travel, because essentially travelling is about people. You can go to the countries and look at the mountains and that is okay, but you need people, without the people you got no culture. That is what I am interested in, how people live different ways – Tony Giles
Tony Giles aka Tony the Traveller, 41, from England is born blind, partially deaf and he is travelling the world blind since 22 years. He visited 124 countries so far and his goal is to travel all spots of this planet. So officially 59 are missing, if you count the official countries.
I met him on lovely Travel Festival Leipzig, a platform for people that travel in a reflective conscious way. I talked with Tony about how he started to travel alone with no internet. About his beginnings in America, food in Japan, that blew him away, about bungee jumping, jumping out of airplanes and rafting.
We talked about different smells of the countries, he mentions a place that attacs all your senses and where everything smells like poo, he described how german cities smell, particularly Leipzig, which country he loves the most, visiting places off the beaten track, how he can afford all his travelling and biggest plan so far: hiking the Inca Trail of Machu Picchu in Peru in October 2020.
He wrote two books so far. “Seeing the world my way” and “Seeing the Americas my way”: Seeing the World My Way, describes his early journeys: out for adventure but consumed by alcohol as a method for dealing with his disabilities. His second ebook, Seeing the Americas My Way, is a more sober, yet more emotional tale. It highlights his challenges of confronting personal issues whilst travelling.
For his life challenge – hiking the Inca Trail – he raises money. One half is for his trip, the other half goes to the Galloways Society for the Blind. A charity based in Preston England, helping and supporting blind and visually impaired people.
It was a big pleasure to meet him. Check him out.
Meet him also on TED Talk and his website.
Cole Chance – Sober Yogi
“I was shaking and detoxing on my mat. Everything about me was horrid and everything around me was so beautiful.”
All ears on: Cole Chance.
She was an alcoholic and drug addict for many years. Nothing seemed to work to get rid of her addiction, until Cole dropped into a yoga class in a drug and alcohol treatment center. She did not stop with her self-destructive behavior, but whenever there was a moment of sobriety, she did some asanas to get into more contact with herself. Her life started to change in small steps, back and forth: Imagine her drinking organic wine and reading buddhist books with one eye open. Doing therapy that helped her, but the 12 steps program of Alcoholics Anonymous not working for her. Imagine her being again in hospital with an overdose. When Cole was about to die, she decided that she wants to live.
Since 7 years she is a sober yogi. She teaches yoga all over the world, leads retreats and is involved in addiction recovery community.
In Bali she taught yoga and meditation in a notorious prison. Cole shares her experience with female balinese prisoners with us. Also we talk about her long way to free herself from addiction, about frustration, anger, longing for adrenalin and intensitiy, risky behavior, exploring things that are uncomfortable, yoga being medicine, teaching yoga for prisoners, getting out of the head, the lessons of contact dance and hope.
I am grateful to have met her on my journey.
Check her out: colechanceyoga.com
She also teaches on youtube.
MDR Tweens Na und?!
Leonie ist 15 und leidet an der seltenen Augenerkrankung, der Zapfen-Stäbchen-Dystrophie. Sie hat nur noch 3 Prozent Sehkraft und spielt Goalball. Das ist eine Mannschaftssportart, wo man blind Torball spielt.
Leonie ist so gut, dass sie zweifacher Landessieger ist und in der Nationalmannschaft schon mittrainierte. Warum sie sich derzeit dagegen entscheidet, Teil des Nationalmannschaft zu sein und was ihre Ziele und Wünsche sind, das erfahrt ihr bei MDR Tweens in der Inklusionssendung Na und?!
MDR Tweens Na und?!
Für Na und?! – die Inklusionssendung bei MDR Tweens habe ich einen Tag mit Ali verbracht. Er ist 17 und ein Transjunge. Unaufgeregt, ehrlich und offen erzählt er von seiner Entscheidung nicht mehr ein Mädchen sein zu wollen, die Umwandlung und sein Leben heute. Er lebt vegan, näht, kocht, diskutiert und setzt sich für die Umwelt ein unter anderem bei Fridays for Future Leipzig.
MDR Tweens und Na und?!
Wie lebt es sich mit einer nachgesagten Seheinschränkung? Ich treffe Maja, 10, und gehe mit ihr zu einem Basketballspiel mit Audiodeskription und wir funken zusammen im MDR Tweens Studio.
Ecstatic Dance bei MDR KULTUR
Tanzend zusammenkommen!
„Verloren sei uns der Tag, wo nicht ein Mal getanzt wurde!“ schrieb Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche einmal, aber leider ist es bei den meisten Menschen so, dass sie mit zunehmendem Alter immer weniger tanzen und, wenn es nach Nitzsche ginge, sich viele verlorene Tage ansammeln.
Eine weltweite wachsende Bewegung könnte das ändern, denn beim Ecstatic Dance sind alle Altersklassen willkommen. Yvonne Strüwing hat mitgetanzt und fordert zum „Tanz“ auf.
Ecstatic Dance bei radioeins
Tanzen bis zur Exstase ohne Zusatzstoffe wie geht das? radioeins wollte es wissen.
Ohne Heimat keine Reise bei Flux FM
Warum meine Reise durch Asien zu den Conscious Communities kein Glanzbild war, welche crazy Sachen ich beobachtet habe, und warum ich am Ende Müll aufsammelte statt Yoga machte, hört ihr hier.