From the Editor: March/April 2018

A note from our editor in chief, Stephen Kiesling.

Talk To Us: March/April 2018

Welcome Back I subscribed to your magazine for several years, and in the busyness of life, forgot to renew when my subscription ended. Now I’m back, and what a (re)treat! As I w…

This Summer Camp Teaches Stop, Breathe & Think

And it changes the world, one interaction at a time.

5 Questions for Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth’s timely new book, This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide, inspires women to see beyond the weight scale to reclaim their worth.

Artists: March/April 2018

Summary of artists in the March/April 2018 issue.

Poetry: Ode to Robert Zimmerman

i store my memories in a vault-like freezerwhere they’ll never thawthey’re all of meyet, somehowyou fit in like i’m the gloveand you’re the skin sheltering mecovering mefor every s…

Rabbi Rami: Is Easter an April Fools’ Prank?

Rabbi Rami answers your spiritual questions.

Our Walk in the World: Heart and Path

Beneath all our noise and trouble, the secret of life is waiting to be discovered, the way a pearl grows in a shell at the bottom of the ocean long before the diver enters the water.

The Happiness Track: The Flow of Being

As children, we were one with each moment—crying one moment, laughing the next— always intensely present and going along with the flow of being. As a result, we had an …

The Heart of Money: The Best Financial Practice for Moving Abroad is Nonattachment

When you move abroad, especially to a different culture like Uganda’s, normal just ain’t normal. My family and I have lived in Kampala, Uganda, for three years, and I just re-renew…

The Power of the Pause Maria Shriver

Thoughts from a life on very fast-forward

Cooking by the Pinch and the Handful

Our senses are our own perfect signaling instruments, our hands are our own perfect measure.

Sauna Training

What a month of daily infrared sauna did for me as an athlete

The Reemerging Masculine Heart

Moving beyond old-school male domination and the Sensitive New Age Guy (SNAG)

A Tarot Reader Faces Her Shadow

Maybe the secrets of relationships really are all in the cards.

Feed the Birds

Now the cue for this parable: the crusty hot Cuban bread is placed to the left of every guest . . .

Catching Up with David Whyte

On what poetry is all about

How Not To Feed Your Cancer

Your cancer is uniquely yours. Get to know it—so you can help deprive it of exactly what it needs to survive.

A Paleo Guide to Hormone Replacement

Men produce reproductive hormones as they age. Why not women?

The Source of Flow & The Battle of the Bottleneck

To protect one source of profound happiness, you need to know how your brain creates it. A brain surgeon explains.

Embrace Your Daily Grind

How to build a bridge between your work and your purpose

Toolbox: A Moment for Paws

S&H offers these finds as a way to pamper, entertain, and commune with your four-legged friends.

Marketplace Mar/Apr 2018

Books, services, education and products that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Book Review: At Peace

Choosing a Good Death after a Long Life

Book Review: The Nest in the Stream

“By staying with our woundedness, we encourage the other to stay with theirs; that is when and how healing happens.”

Book Review: Hormonal

The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones—How they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser

Book Review: Brain Food

The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power

Music Review: Wilder Shores

Belinda Carlisle’s new album, Wilder Shores, has the former Go-Go’s singer blending pop with Kundalini mantra chants, a surprising and wonderful addition to her string of hit solo …

Music Review: My Name Is Bear

“We all must find our own way home.” This phrase rests on the booklet cover inside Nahko’s first solo album, My Name Is Bear, and it’s the ideal aphorism for these songs and voice …

Music Review: Jala

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Film Review: The Departure

Each unanswered call could be one more person on the edge who desperately needs his help.

Film Review: The Divine Order

As she gradually finds her voice, the women around her join forces in solidarity.

Film Review: What Lies Upstream

The cynical collusion between corporations and government to gut the regulations that keep our water safe and clean is tackled in compelling, infuriating fashion in Cullen Hoback’s…