Issue 4
ANAHATA
Certain things we come into the world with, and certain things we don’t. For all that doesn’t come naturally, we need a method to help get us there. Enter Tantra. Tantra means...
HEART OPEN
The power of our heart center lets us shift to being fully human and holds the truth of our authentic selves. The heart gives us the ferociously gentle courage to act, and to...
FOOD A VESSEL OF LOVE
Food is both container and conduit. The ways in which we cultivate, reap, prepare and ultimately consume our nourishment are actions of love, compassion, and empathic rapport with our fellow sentient beings. For...
THE OLDEST STORYTELLERS
Photography by Philippe Lacombe Set design by Claude Neron All crystals and stones from CRISTAUX ET COULEURS - Paris
IN CELEBRATION
With a decade of self-discovery and self-expression behind him, Yann has emerged as a fierce advocate of the LGBTQ+ community within the skate industry, joyously celebrating being loud and proud. To bridge the before to...
JESSAMYN – A TALE OF RADICAL SELF-LOVE
Jessamyn Stanley, renowned yoga teacher and body positivity advocate and activist, known for breaking boundaries in the yoga industry, firmly believes that to love and be loved is the entire “reason that we’re...
TRATAKA
A ritual is an embodied remembrance, an act of preservation, and an invocation of the mystical. Both presence and purification are necessary ingredients for ritual—the latter spanning all regions and religions from Misogi, the Japanese Shinto...
WELCOME TO MY CAMELOT
In the late 1920s, Seattle based artist and architect Boyce Gulley was diagnosed with tuberculosis and given six months to live. What seemed like an overnight decision, Gulley left his family,...
CLIMBING MT. FUJI
The mountain of grief that wears us down, and the summit of grief we hope to reach to make our way out of grief, or to be reconnected with the one we...
WEAR YOUR GRIEF
You may think that grief is only about the loss of a beloved person or companion, but grief can be about anything. You can grieve the loss of a job, an apartment, a relationship...
A HEART CHAKRA COSMOLOGY
Animation. Vivification. Respiration. Astrology’s Air element is a breathy, boundless, buoyant beckoning towards the truth that all love is change. Channeled through the trinity of Air sign archetypes—Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius—this is the animus of exchange.
BREATHE AND LET GO
When you’re running, you’re constantly moving from one place to the next. If you do it right you can find that stillness, you can just coast, no longer just putting...
THE AIR BENDERS
Learning breathwork is for all. If you are alive, you breathe. If you breathe you can learn to use your breath as a tool for soothing, nurturing, enhancing, surmounting and transforming your state...
THE BREATH OF THE SAGE
The Dao is the hidden force that connects all things. Daoists believe when the mind is emptied of thought, emotion and attachment, clarity arrives. Only then does the ultimate nature of reality, empty...
THE GREAT UNIFIER
Breath is the great unifier: a potent and accessible path back home to our hearts. Breath can shift our ability to know ourselves as source. When we consciously breathe, we experience access to...
THE SCENT OF THOUGHT
A dialogue between Cartier’s in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent and neuroscientist Dr. Tara Swart Photography & Set Design by Derek Henderson Portrait Photography by Joseph Molines
BORN OUT OF DEVOTION
Love in the yoga tradition is rooted in the fourth or heart chakra. Envisioned as a spinning disk of energy in the lower center of the chest, this is the spiritual and...
MY SONG IS FOR ALL
As an artist it is imperative that I create work that reveals to me, to my inner child, new possibilities of being. Like many men, I have no guidebook on how to...
FROM THE HEART TO THE PAGE
Some say the journey from the path we face. head to the heart is the longest and most arduous journey we ever face. If that’s true, then the journey from the heart to the page...
THE (HE)ART OF INTIMACY
Intimacy is a hot topic. It fascinates and also causes unease. Intimacy is a tender, at times elusive space that needs to be surrendered to gently, akin to lowering oneself inch by inch...
I WILL BE FIERCE
I first discovered Archery at my local town show, but had to wait a long time to get on a beginners course so I could shoot. Archery gives me confidence...
NATURE IN HER GREEN TRANQUIL WOODS
Photography by Elisabeth Toll
LOVE THYSELF
The go-to technique for opening the heart chakra among Buddhist practitioners is metta, or loving kindness, meditation. The practice begins by offering loving kindness to ourselves and then extending it outward to a loved one; a...