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 Timer: The Number You Pick Before You Start
The lodge in Peru had four rounds in it. I didn’t know that going in, because nobody had said so, and nobody…
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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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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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Night Meditation: The Hour the West Gave Away
Night meditation is the older arrangement, and I didn’t get there by reading about it. I got there by noticing, years later,…
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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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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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