Currently Reading: Sak Yant – Sacred Thai Tattoo

I’ve been called a man twice in the past month – something I’ve experienced many times in Thailand and in the past largely read as a mixed insult or at best a backhanded compliment. It’s not...

  above, YouTube video of Andrew Zimmern receiving his Sak Yant You can read about my own Sak Yant experiences here Since the airing of Andrew Zimmern’s Driven By Food I’ve already received a lot of...

Sak Yant, My Belief and Muay Thai Invulnerability There are, to me, significant differences between the invulnerability of those who deflect bullets, and the invulnerability of those who absorb bullets but keep moving forward. The second...

I climbed slowly down the short ladder from the corner of the ring, the cool air washing over the water soaked clothes, Vaseline and oil on my skin, while the warmth of blood streamed down from...

Guest Post by Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu Do you believe in magic? Magic is ritual which upon repetition produces change. The rain that was coming looked unearthly. You could see huge curtains of it draped in grey...

Today on our drive back from Korat to Pattaya we started seeing signs for a wat with a giant reclining Genesha depicted. They got more and more frequent, and then we saw that the same wat...

above video: my thoughts on just coming out from the 2 hrs of tattooing my sak yant. As one can see,...

Sak Yant – Sacred...