Wellness
Every new mother wants the best for their kid. For holistic happiness coach Jennifer Kass, this meant a strict macrobiotic diet from birth – followed by years of sugar-saturated rebellion. In a moving open letter to her mother (and macrobiotic moms everywhere), she recognises her saviour and a foodie pioneer. Dear Mother, I know that […]
If you’re reading this blog, chances are you give a shit about what goes into your body – nothing very numinous about clogging your third chakra with dirty dairy, and all that sodium fluoride in the tap water calcifying your third eye. And so you’ll sometimes find us posting about natural, chemical-free beauty products. Because sometimes, […]
Chi-chi London holistic heath centre Triyoga will host rock star chant master Krishna Das in a rare three-day chanting retreat this coming weekend (June 28 – 30). With hours of chanting interspersed with sessions from Anusara yoga mistress Bridget Woods Kramer - to “stretch, ground and prepare the body” – the aim of the “ocean of […]
There are yoga teachers and there are yoga preachers, and, as the founder of the Off The Mat and Into The World initiative, the high priestess of them both is undoubtedly Seane Corn. But as festival season kicks in, what we really wanted to know from the activist and yogini extraordinaire is how a girl […]
A “magic jumper” with active healing properties was only a matter of time, now that fashion is falling in love with spirituality. Forget Jennifer Anniston and her Hamsa anti-evil eye necklace and Sienna Miller and her Daisy London chakra bracelets. The new serious face of alternative fashion is the former head knitwear designer at Dior, […]
I decided to try meditation when I could see what it had done for two friends who have the most fun, strong yet chaotic characters; who always seemed to be spinning on drama or self-sabotaging through low self esteem. It took the edge off their panic, is the most succinct way I can describe it. […]
Imagine Eat, Pray, Love, but minus the rose-tinted specs and told with a wicked sense of humour (not that we don’t love you Liz Gilbert) and you’ve got the gist of Australian radio host Mary Lou Stephens’ new memoir, Sex, Drugs and Meditation. In and out of rehab for her various addictions, and with enough […]
THIS month’s National Yoga Asana Championships, held at the Hudson Theatre in NYC, were a window into a whole other world of bendy. So what really separates the winners in the men’s and women’s categories from the rest of us wannabes? We asked them how they prepare, exactly how much green juice a person can get […]