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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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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