Stories
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...
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...
SHAMA THE SUPERMAN
Shama “the Superman” Beckford is a Jamaican pro surfer and skater. Tuned into the interconnectedness of all things, Shama believes that change starts with each individual and that it is only through...
THE BEST BATH FOR SECOND CHAKRA
Words by Michelle Spina Soak - fully submerge Dip hands and feet into any natural body of water.
MICRODOSING (FOR UNDERACHIEVERS)
You might take acid and go to work. In fact, you might take acid specifically because you are going to work. In Silicon Valley, because coffee only goes so far, the search for greater...
DROP THE VEIL
The second chakra, Svadhisthana (meaning: in your own place), has deep roots in how we connect to ourselves and relate to our environment. It builds upon the strong foundation of our root chakra. It’s about...
TIDES WITHIN AND TIDES WITHOUT
Photography by Elisabeth Toll
LET YOURSELF FEEL – A HOMEOPATH’S PRESCRIPTION
Emotions and pain need to be felt, experienced, and embodied. The deep-acting remedies flow from these expressions. You must experience something to come out the other side. Journeys through discomfort are boosters of growth and lead to...
SVADHISTHANA THE JUICE OF LIFE
Life changes. It’s a fact. Our bodies change, the weather changes, our minds change, people change, places change. Even the cells of our bodies are completely replaced approximately every seven years. According to the Tantric view...
OPEN YOUR SACRAL CHAKRA IN STOCKHOLM
We asked Swedish architect and sustainability specialist Elise Grosse, to nominate three places in Stockholm that align with the second chakra.
HIPS DON’T LIE
Johanna Enough isn’t your typical professional dancer. She is natural, honest, and real. This may be why her videos are so popular. In some she wears full makeup and costume—looking like a true...
THE RHYTHM AND FLOW OF EVER-CHANGING LIFE
Photography by Andreas Öhlund & Maria Therese Styling by Columbine Smille Talent Oumie Make-up Veronica Aldrin Set designer Andreas Frienholt Production Lundlund
ON BREATH AND CREATIVITY
Our breath is our quickest access point to embodied presence.
CREATIVE FLOW
The biggest misconception is that in order to be creative or experience pleasure, the conditions need to be exactly right. The reality is that any human can tap into the energy of pleasure...
FLOW
Guilt for Me is simply an indicator of something being out of alignment with who I am and where I am in my life. If I feel guilt it is because I know that...
ICH STEH AUF DICH
Photography by Claudia Knoepfel
SATISFACTION
For when you need your glow to shine just a little longer through the day (or night): Cleanse the skin with OSEA Ocean Cleanser. Massage in a drop of DETOX MODE...
THE GLOW
Orgasms, whether achieved solo, coupled, or in a group, make us flush, radiate, and glow. No balms, serums, or elixirs compare to the real thing. Such joyfully stimulating activity gets the blood-flowing, or,...
HOW EMPATHY CAN PUSH THE BOUNDARIES OF PORN
Feminist Filmmaker Erika Lust utilizes two powerful creative forces as a pornography filmmaker: eroticism and empathy. The balance of the two are the invisible power engine of the systemic change she is...
SWEET SPOT
Photography by Lotte van Raalte
SPIRITUAL THOUGHTS ON THE FRAGILITY OF THE WHITE MALE
Our daughter was conceived the weekend before the 2016 election. Her now-corporeal form was just beginning to crystalize, zygote to embryo, at the same time that an archaic electoral college, a clickbaiting mainstream media, and a...