Affairs / Health
Monocolumn
Sunday 26 June
Sino-Indian rapprochement… through the medium of yoga
If further proof were needed of China’s boom, it was on display last week in a Guangzhou hall, sporting garish shades of locally branded lycra.
- 27 results for yoga
Affairs / Health
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 June
Yoga protectionism
For centuries, Indians have been sun saluting, warrior posing and applying the natural antiseptic turmeric to their wounds.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 12 November
Yoga for dogs and cafés for cats
The model reclines on a camouflage pillow, a bandana tied casually around his neck above a red T-shirt with a white logo.
Edits / Health
Revitalising retreats
Be it yoga in Brazil or hot springs in Japan, these destinations won’t recharge your batteries – they’ll replace them with hybrid engines.
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 8 July
Weekend agenda 9/10 July
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, mid-century furniture sales, and yoga lessons on the beach.
The Monocle Daily, episode 364
We ask whether Barack Obama’s speech in Jerusalem was a success or a failure, head to Zagreb for a historic football match, and find out why a manufacturing flaw is costing Canadian yoga wear company Lululemon millions.
The Entrepreneurs, episode 65
We hear from a caviar expert sourcing her stock from China, visit Cairo to meet the man making a profit by paying people to recycle, and we find out how one company in Mumbai is selling yoga to a younger generation using…
Culture / Music
Going solo
Frida Hyvönen is a singer-songwriter with an intimate understanding of the grand piano and the great outdoors. Monocle went backstage with the Swedish chanteuse in Paris as she prepared to play songs from her new record,…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 7 May
How to do holidays
For a country whose workers prefer not to inconvenience their colleagues by taking a vacation, Japan does remarkably well when it comes to public holidays: 15 a year.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 June
Education hits the rocks
Emotions are running wild in the run up to a referendum in July in which Hamburg citizens will decide whether to abolish what are known in Germany as Hauptschule.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 4 June
Watch and learn
If proof were ever needed of just how industrious the Japanese are, a quick trip to a city park on a sunny afternoon should be all that’s required.
Design / Craft
Design/Architecture Briefing
Mexico City's housing complex that goes back to nature, a chair made in collaboration with flip-flop giant Havaianas, and the bestselling Lamino armchair.
Business / Entrepreneurialism
Boulder and wiser
The Colorado towns of Boulder and Fort Collins provide the perfect breeding ground for entrepreneurs who want to tap into the great outdoors and up-and-coming trends. With the Rocky Mountains outside their offices, it’s…
Affairs / Urbanism
Talk of the town
From a Beijing air-quality expert to an Italian architect, these urban planning visionaries have ideas with the potential to transform our urban world – and soon.
Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Books: Re-issue of a post-apocalyptic classic, photos of New York store fronts and a graphic trip through neurotic adolescence. Film: Two delectable French thrillers: L'instinct de Mort and Pour Elle. Music: Electro-rock…
Culture / Publishing
She's a believer
Author of four hit books, Vendela Vida, is alo the co-editor of US culture magazine 'The Believer'. Part of a celebrated literary couple (her husband is Dave Eggers) she tells Monocle how she works and what inspires her.
Edits / Industry
Expo 62: Help is at hand
It’s part hardware store, part department store but ultimately defies description. It is a tokyo institution that sells just about everything and is loved by everyone. Welcome to Tokyu Hands.
Edits / Society
Mar Mikhael
Over the last few years, boutiques, architectural practices, bars and an arts centre have been set up in this Armenian neighbourhood but for many residents, old and new, the charm of Mar Mikhael lies in its authenticity and…
Edits / Travel
Monocle travel guide
A defence-themed round-up includes rooms for hire in former forts and citadels everywhere from the West Indies to Portugal, airlines run by the military and the hotels favoured over the years by the world’s most well-tra…