After reading us his flash fiction story, "Para siempre" [Forever], Carlos offers some insight into the historical backdrop, events, and characters that inspired him.

If you like chess, this lesson is for you! In this first part, we'll learn not only some of the most important Spanish chess-related vocabulary, but also how certain pieces move.

Having learned about the rook, the knight, and the bishop, let's now see how to place and move the remaining pieces: the king, the queen, and the pawn.

In part three of Carlos' series on chess, he explains some important aspects of the game, including a popular opening move, as well as the Spanish words for terms like checkmate, castling, and stalemate.

In this last installment of this series on chess, Carlos teaches us a few tactics, among which is the famous "queen's gambit," like the title of the popular Netflix series.

Antonio Vargas is a versatile Mexican artist living in Los Cabos. He has done cartoons, commercial drawings, paintings and a lot of sculptures. In this episode Antonio is going to show us some of his cartoons containing the adventures of Surfo.

Our surf-loving friend Antonio Vargas is a talented illustrator with a varied career. Here we see some of his more commercial work and some of what he does for fun—like an illustrated magazine and notebook doodles.

You may know the baraja española, the Spanish deck of cards, with its classic renderings of kings and knights in four suits. Our illustrator friend Antonio Vargas created a uniquely Mexican baraja with native imagery drawing from the pre-Columbian Aztec, Olmec, Toltec and Mayan cultures.

Antonio Vargas is a talented painter and sculptor. In this video, he’s going to show us his works, explain what they mean and how he made them. A self-portrait as a fish? His father in clay? It’s all here.

Yoga, a discipline that has become quite trendy in the West in recent years, is actually a more than three-thousand-year-old life philosophy. Yoga instructor Ana Teresa will share with us some information about this discipline according to the ancient book The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Instead of just listening to someone talk about meditation, what could be better than experiencing it yourself? Participate in this guided meditation with Ana Teresa, and feel the sensations it brings.

Yoga postures have an effect not only on the body but also on the mind. In this video, Ana Teresa explains in detail the four manners in which we can work the spine in yoga and the mental effects of each of them.

What are the yin and yang types of yoga? Ana Teresa explains to us what these practices entail and which personality type each tends to suit, which might be counterintuitive.

With the help of Ana Teresa, let's delve a bit deeper into the idea of the chakras, which are energetic points responsible for maintaining the balance between mind and body.

Are you familiar with the concept of chakras, which can be thought of as "knots" or "wheels" that cause energy to circulate in our subtle body? Ana Teresa explains in detail the role of chakras as energy centers that need to be in balance in order for us to be healthy.