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RUNNING SUCKS

I grew up an athlete, but not a runner. Yeah, I ran sprints. For punishment. Never distance.  It wasn’t until I left college, left organized sport behind, and was looking...

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PROSPECT PARK

With marathoner Caitlin Phillips 

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PEARLS OF WISDOM FROM NEW YORK CITY

NY was and always will be the city of the world where anything is possible, filled with every kind of person. There’s nothing and no place better.

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SOMETHING BIGGER THAN THEMSELVES

Call them power shifters, or empower-ers, we spoke with 30 New Yorkers, who are raising consciousness through Activism, Beauty, Fashion, Food, Holistic Health, Innovation, Movement and Sound. The brands and...

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TOOLS OF SHAME

The power of shame has been built over millennia, and many societies and social groups throughout the globe have used punishment with intent to publicly humiliate as a deterrent to...

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SHAME – IT’S YOUR POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

We all have shame. What we don’t realize, shame is a golden pot at the end of the rainbow. If we can learn to run towards shame, rather than run...

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ROSARIO DAWSON – POWER IN COMMUNITY

Rosario Dawson’s personal power, conviction, and outspokenness are clear to anyone who’s met her, seen her in her many television and movies roles or benefited from one of the myriad...

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FIGHTING FIRE

Nestled between the Sierra Nevada mountains and California’s capitol, Sacramento, lies a little town called Ione, California. With historic ties to California’s Gold Rush in the 1800’s, Ione has always...

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THE CELESTIAL SPARK

Imagine you’re camping out in the woods. The night has fallen, the moon is yet to rise, a slight chill spreads across the air, and you think, “a fire would...

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GIVE IT A TRY

“It’s impossible,” said pride.  “It’s risky,” said experience.  “It’s pointless,” said reason.  “Give it a try,” whispered the heart.

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EBONEE DAVIS – A HAIR JOURNEY

To access our personal power, we must acknowledge the collective identity that we share with those who came before us, and those who will come after. Through respectfully highlighting cultural...

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INSIDE THE CLUB

If you had told sixteen-year-old me that at thirty-nine I would be a personal trainer and strength coach, I would have taken a long drag on my cigarette, exhaled in...

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SELF-DISCIPLINE & EGO

It’s tricky self-discipline. We know what is healthy for us, but sometimes it’s difficult to get ourselves to do those healthy things. Why is that? We don’t seem to have...

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THE JEWELS OF KEITH MITCHELL

Sixteen years ago, Keith Mitchell found himself laying in a hospital bed, facing the reality that his days playing for the NFL were over. Through the advice and teaching of...

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KAMCHATKA

Kamchatka is one of the world’s most spectacularly tectonic landscapes, the peninsula, which pokes out into the North Pacific, riven with rivers, gorges and mountains. The peaks run like a...

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VOLCANO TRANSFORMING

I went to the volcano at dusk and watched a guard in a fluorescent vest move the orange safety cone every time the lava birthed forward. That is how lava...

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STONES OF POWER

Photography by Joseph Molines  Set design by Claude Néron

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THE MAGNETIC CORE

Photography by Lotte van Raalte Styling by Chelsey Clarke

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FINDING CENTER

Words by Michelle Spina 

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MANIPURA

What are you most afraid of? Be honest with yourself. Think about the thing that scares you the most and imagine that happening. What happens in your body? Do your...

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GUT CHECK

My first memory of food is Metamucil. You remember Metamucil? That orange, grainy, gelatinous goop that promised to get your bowels moving through the power of psyllium husks. I remember...