Yoga

singing bowls in front of fireplace

Is sound the secret sauce?

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Walk into a yoga studio, retreat center, or living room gathering today and you’re likely to encounter something ancient. A singing bowl hums. A chant ripples through the room. A drum begins a steady heartbeat. Someone calls it a sound bath. Someone else calls it sacred music. Or New Age. Someone else just closes their […]

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Dinner party when host introduces topic of enlightenment

If you threw a dinner party

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–and invited a mix of spiritual, political, artistic, and scientific friends what would happen if you asked all of them to define enlightenment? At my imagined dinner party there would be a moment of silence. Then some might pull out their phones, scrolling for ways to discreetly leave. Others would quietly gasp and refill their

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