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10 Tips for the First-Time Retreat Goer
Considering taking a retreat? These ten tips will help you prepare for the experience of a lifetime.
2023 January/February
Find Your Hidden Strength
Retreat Guide
23 Great Places to Pause, Reflect, and Renew
Our 2023 Retreat Guide features 23 unique retreat centers design to help you heal, restore, and connect with your highest self. Where will you retreat to this year?
Columns
Introducing Nagomi
Neuroscientist and author Ken Mogi shares ways to practice nagomi, a Japanese concept of balance.
Aging With Cats and Dogs
Our resident animal chaplain explores the complexities of mortality as it regards our animal companions—and ourselves.
In Happiness and Suffering
Paul Sutherland struggles with creating an off-ramp for his unskillful thoughts and actions. He falls down, gets back up, and tries again.
Ready, Set. Go
“Life at its best is always fresh and unrepeatable.” Mark Nepo shows us how to balance preparation and emotional readiness.
Amusing Grace, How Sweet the Sound
Is there a place for laughter in trauma therapy? Our resident psychotherapist dives in.
Roadside Assistance: Becoming Enlightened
Rabbi Rami Shapiro answers pressing questions on America, immortality, and enlightenment as a goal.
Toolbox
Toolbox: Spreading Gratitude
Utilize these seven tools to promote gratitude in your life and in the lives of your loved ones.
Features
Running on Gentle Power
Life is an ultramarathon. The best path is to access your sisu and keep your heart open.
Featured Artist: Diana Sudyka
S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with Diana Sudyka about taxidermy, clayboard, and combining words and images. Look for her art throughout the January/February 2023 issue.
Connections
Move for Recovery
Steven Washington, author of Recovering You, shares his recovery journey and how movement was the key to success.
The Hidden Cost of Domestication
Animal trainer Ren Hurst lost everything when she discovered a new way of being with animals. What she gained made the loss worthwhile.
From The Editor
From the Editor: Thinking About Sisu This January
Explore what our January/February 2023 issue has in store—sisu, nagomi, and freudenfreude included.
Reviews
Music Review: The New Faith
The New Faith is a beautifully crafted Afrofuturist album by Jake Blount that tells the story of a group of Black climate refugees who are cursed to wander the planet after it’s de…Tags:
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Music Review: Synesthesia
Sherry Finzer’s new album is a journey of radiant solo flute music that releases stress and relaxes the mind and body. Finzer specializes in native flutes and low flutes. This is t…
Film Review and Director Q&A: Inhospitable
Documentaries about the broken American healthcare system are nothing new, but Inhospitable applies a laser focus to a part of the problem that has gotten relatively little attenti…
Film Review: Utama
Utama, which has been chosen as Bolivia’s Academy Awards submis-sion, opens with a striking image of a man walking towards a setting sun across a landscape of cracked and scorched …
Film Review: No Bears
Despite being the subject of a filmmaking ban imposed by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi has defied his country’s authorities by directing five features since the ban was impo…Tags:
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Book Review: Psychedelic Buddhism
Even those of us who consider ourselves square may be intrigued by a growing renewal of cultural interest in psychedelic drugs—signaled by a recent flood of books that explain just…
Book Review: Gentle Power
For many of us, the word “power” evokes images of executives around a conference table, politicians delivering fiery speeches, or, unfortunately, all kinds of violence. But what if…
Book Review: The Power of Awe
What if you were offered a microdose as potent as a psychotropic that lifts depression and gives you a buzz? Would you try it? Turns out, we all have access to something just as po…
