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21 Days to Your Vision Quest
Get ready for the least-expensive, most-healing, most-enlightening 48 hours you may ever experience.
3 Ways to Bring the Festival Home
Helpful tips to keep the fire burning from Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati
A Solo Journey for Radical Self-Care
A self-described mother martyr goes on a solo journey and rediscovers the value of her own joy.
America's Most Spiritual Spa 2010: Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary
Even a first award requires a history. And any history of spiritual spas leads inevitably to the ancient Greek city of Epidaurus and the Temple of Aesculapius. As you may remember,…
Best Retreats for the Active Traveler
The spiritual path leads toward “total aliveness” and entails peace and calm and simplicity, but it may also include bucket-list-level indulgence. The problem of course is that the…
Best Retreats for the Multi-Generational Family
“In the old days, the elders knew the stories of their sons—because they lived together,” writes Sam Keen his in beautiful new joint memoir Prodigal Father, Wayward Son: A Roadmap …
Best Retreats for the Solo Explorer
Not so many years ago, a healthy spa diet arrived in shades of dark green and brown and would make a foodie wince. Not anymore. Health resort foods now tend toward the exquisite, t…
Best Retreats for the Spiritual Seeker
Natural quiet comes in many forms: the quiet of the solitary mountain walk, the meditation cushion, the yoga platform, the beach, the candlelit dinner, the massage table, or perhap…
Breathe Deep, Live Deep: Yoga of Synthesis #1
Sponsored Content from Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas
Bringing the Wisdom Back Home
One of the trickier things about going off on a spiritual retreat is not what happens when you’re away. It’s what happens when you get home. I was recently at a retreat center whe…
Can a Spiritual Retreat Change Your Brain Chemistry?
The levels of two powerful neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin, are altered. Here’s how.
Close to the Ground: The Great and Mighty Ango
The first thing about spiritual practice is that, for it to work, we have to do it. An obvious truth. The second thing about spiritual practice is that we need to do it regularly—m…
Enriched by Animals
A couple of years ago, lonely and lost, I took a walk on a secluded beach in Nantucket, before the throngs arrived for the season. It was rainy and gray, a miasma of weather that p…
Film Review: Walk With Me
Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch (his rich, mellifluous baritone is immediately recognizable), this beautifully immersive documentary was produced over three years among the Buddhi…
