Retreat Integration: The Part Nobody Sells You
You come out of a temazcal low to the ground, and the first thing your body lies to you about is the…
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Group Meditation: Nobody Meditates Alone Out There
Every practice I was taught outside the West happened in a room with other people in it. Every one. The Putumayo, the…
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Meditation for Sleep: Why Trying to Fall Asleep Keeps You Awake
It’s 3:40 in the morning. Something woke you — a noise, a dream, nothing you can name — and now you’re lying…
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Meditation Side Effects: What Nobody Warns You About
Somebody sits down with a free app for the first time, closes their eyes, follows the voice for ten minutes, and stands…
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Unexplained Infertility: What That Word Actually Means
You go in for the results. Ovulation, confirmed. Tubes, open. Hormones in range. His semen analysis, normal. And then somebody says the…
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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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Secondary Infertility: The Loss Nobody Gives You Room to Grieve
In a room full of people talking about conception, you can usually pick out the one living with secondary infertility. She’s the…
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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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