From the Editor: What Makes a Successful Interviewer?

S&H is no stranger to interviews.

Featured Artist: Tracy Verdugo

S&H editor Ben Nussbaum spoke with Australian artist Tracy Verdugo about evolution, Embracing the Contrast, and taking a break from color.

5 Care Tips: Knees

Knees aren’t really a discrete body part—they’re a zone of intersection, where various body systems, including muscular and skeletal, meet.

Re/VIEW: Robert Thurman

Thurman’s odyssey is remarkable and ongoing.

Looking for a Standard

Rabbi Rami provides wisdom on reincarnation, yoga classes as appropriation, astrology predicting the future, and more.

Falling Up Into The Cloud of Unknowing

A frontline nurse seeks a spiritual way of seeing.

In the Thick of It

“And it is the call of each generation to make sure that we choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty, one more time.”

Contemplating the Festively Feathered

This holiday season is for the birds.

From Self-Love to Neighbor-Love

“I am who I am because we are who we are. This inextricable connection is what I call fierce love.”

5 Risks of a Spiritual Path

Discover potential pitfalls for the spiritual seeker based on two decades of research.

10 Ayurvedic Practices for Winter

Explore the best ways to kickstart an Ayurvedic practice this winter.

Sleep Blends

Master herbalist shares three recipes for improved sleep, as well as advice on how to start on the herbalist path.

The Psychedelic Touch

Explore how drugs like LSD have helped veterans overcome the trauma of war.

The Spiritual Practice of Writing

Ideas for how to get started journaling and why it’s such a powerful tool.

Understanding Humans

Stephen Kiesling sits down with November/December 2021 cover person, scientist, and neurodiversity advocate, Camilla Pang.

Find Your Calling

These two profiles may inspire you to make changes in your own life.

Giving Experiences: 15+ Experiential Gifts for Loved Ones

Giving and receiving gifts can be a true joy. But accumulating more things can feel like a burden.

Book Review: A Human History of Emotion

EMOTIONS ARE one of the most universally experienced aspects of being human. We have all felt the rippling burn of anger and the calm comforting love we have for a close friend. Of…

Book Review: Sit Down to Rise Up

WHAT’S THE SECRET OF LIFE? The simple, but not necessarily easy, action of showing up, says mindfulness teacher Shelly Tygielski in Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can C…

Book Review: Anchored

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM has a playbook for handling threats. When we are dysregulated, disconnected, or healing from trauma, our usual playbook becomes unreliable. We freeze and capitul…

Music Review: Music for Film & Theatre

HANIA RANI IS A bright emerging artist whose piano-based compositions are emotional and energized, drawing on a diversity of genres including classical, jazz, ambient, and electron…

Music Review: The Jungle Sessions

THE JUNGLE SESSIONS is the third album in a trilogy from sacred singer/guitarist Miten, following Temple at Midnight (2016) and Devotee (2019). These compassionate songs celebrate …

Film Review: The Loneliest Whale

FOR MANY YEARS, the so-called “52-hertz whale” has been one of the more mysterious and captivating beasts in creation. So called because the sounds it emits are at a frequency diff…

Film Review: AWARE

THE VERY NATURE OF SENTIENCE is at the heart of Frauke Sandig and Eric Black’s absorbing documentary, which asks more questions than it can answer in ways that leave you wanting to…