Grounding Meditation: What the Earth Does After the Heat, and What It Doesn’t
Temazcal, or Swear Lodge dates back to early civilizations. Sweat Lodge is used in the Native American tribes as well as in…
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Meditation Room: What the West Built When It Closed the Door
The spare room still has a box of winter clothes in the corner, but the rest is cleared. A round cushion on…
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Meditation Subscription: What the Monthly Fee Is Really Buying
The renewal email usually lands at a bad moment. You're half-dressed, the coffee is going cold, and your phone tells you your…
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Meditation Tracking: The Score No Tradition Ever Gave You
The ring on your finger knew before you did. You haven't opened the curtains yet, and the app has already decided how…
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Meditation Teacher: The One Thing an App Can’t Do
My first temazcal was in Peru, in 2018, at the back end of a plant-medicine retreat. A Lakota-style lodge, Mexican hands running…
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Huichol Music: The Violin That Keeps You From Getting Lost
Somewhere in the first hour of that night, a man sat down near the fire, tucked a violin under his chin that…
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Cuba Doesn’t Heal in Silence. The Batá Drums Heal Out Loud
The first thing Cuba takes from you is your idea of what healing is supposed to sound like. You arrive carrying the…
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The Colombian Amazon Doesn’t Go Quiet at Night
The road gives up before you do. Somewhere past the last town the pavement breaks into gravel, the gravel into mud, and…
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Putumayo, Colombia – The Road That Loses Its Pavement
Field Notes — Bogotá to Putumayo, Colombia The flight south out of Bogotá takes a little over an hour, and it undoes…
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The Wall Before the Jungle
Bogotá is not where most people intend to stop. It is a city you pass through on the way to somewhere else…
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