July/August 2019

2019 July/August

Features

Autobiography of a Yogını: An Interview with Seane Corn

Seane Corn describes her evolution and the revolution she's taking part in during this interview with Stephen Kiesling.

Tags: • Yoga • Growth

Regrowing Roots

by Kathryn Drury Wagner

After losing a job in an industry in decline, Jill Herzig came up with a plan for moving forward with her life and career.

Tags: • Change • Growth

An image of two fantastical creatures dancing

What Helps and What Hurts

by Julie Peters

Yoga can be a great tool for recovery, but only if yoga teachers understand how to shape the practice to the needs of people healing from trauma.

Tags: • Yoga • Trauma

Is It Your Time to Add to the Wild Church Network?

by Stephen Blackmer

Is the great outdoors your holy place? You might want to consider joining the Wild Church Network.

Tags: • Nature • Christianity

Connections

The Golden Hours

by Shaili Jain, M.D.

Shaili Jain, M.D., a top expert on trauma, writes about cutting edge medical interventions that hold the promise of preventing PTSD.

Tags: • Trauma

Reimagining Sharks

by Kalia Kelmenson

Sharks are facing extinction. S&H’s resident surfer, Kalia Kelmenson, explains why that matters.

Tags: • Oceans

Does being near water make you feel relaxed? Therapeutic landscape designers Marco Mencagli and Marco Nieri explain how negative ions—abundant near bodies of water—have a profound, if poorly understood, role in health and happiness.

Tags: • Nature • Water

Oryoki: The Practice of “Just Enough”

by Gesshin Claire Underwood

Gesshin Claire Greenwood shares how a Zen ritual can help us find balance in life.

Tags: • Buddhism • Diet

Working Mindfully With Physical Pain

by Mark Coleman

Pain can offer an invitation to soften, writes Mark Coleman, the founder of the Mindfulness Institute.

Tags: • Pain

Restless Everything Syndrome

by Adreanna Limbach

The First Noble Truth of Buddhism (dukkha) is that we can’t avoid suffering. But suffering is a chance for connection.

Tags: • Buddhism

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re/VIEW: Jimmie Dale Gilmore

by Ben Nussbaum

Jimmie Dale Gilmore talks with S&H about his unusual career and his own personal journey.

Featured Artist Deedee Cheriel

by Ben Nussbaum

S&H editor Ben Nussbaum chatted with Deedee about her spiritual journey and how it intersects with her art, simplicity, and why images of mothers are so important to her.

From The Editor

A Changing Spirituality & Health

by Ben Nussbaum

A (slightly) new direction for S&H involves a lot of familiar names and faces.

Columns

Am I Not Kosher Enough for My Daughter?

by Rabbi Rami Shapiro

Rabbi Rami responds to questions about white supremacy, a loving god, and Christian tracts, among others.

Has Meditation Gotten Too Easy?

by Kathryn Drury Wagner

When people are meditating so they can perform better at work, we have to ask: Is that really the point?

Tags: • Meditation

Training Our Mind for Endurance

by Emma Seppala

Mental training can help us get through horrible physical experiences—even childbirth!

Tags: • Postpartum

We Are They

by Mark Nepo

"We are at a basic crossroads between deepening the decency that comes from caring for each other and spreading the contagion of making anyone who is different an enemy."