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 Singing Bowl You Feel Instead of Hearing
The eco-village sat on a shelf of terraced land below Annapurna, an hour or so out of Pokhara, where the road gives…
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You Don’t Have to Sit Still. Walking Meditation Works When Sitting Won’t
You sat down to meditate, once. Maybe more than once. You set a timer, crossed your legs, closed your eyes, and waited…
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The Timed Intercourse Trap: When Making Love Turns Into a Test You Have to Pass
Timed Inercourse: There’s a particular quiet that settles over a bedroom when both people already know what the night is for. The…
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Short Meditation Works? Do you have 20 Minutes?
Short Meditation: You decide, finally, that this is the year you’ll meditate. And the moment you decide, a picture arrives with it…
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The Song That Carries You Through the Night
You reach the house after dark. It sits back from a dirt road in the Putumayo, in the low green country where…
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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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The Lost Art of Doing Nothing — and How to Get It Back
There’s a small moment that happens maybe forty times a day, and almost nobody notices it anymore. You step into an elevator.…
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Stress and Fertility: Stop Trying to Relax. Your Body Is Waiting for a Different Signal.
Stress and Fertility – Somewhere around the second year of trying, the advice arrives. It always does. A relative who means well.…
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