In late October, tech industry executive and avid athlete Rhonda Vetere participated with eight other women in the inaugural Serengeti Girls’ Run—a 55-mile, five-day journey through the Serengeti in Tanzania. The goal of this…
Monthly Archives: November 2018
Coconut Quinoa Porridge
Move over boxed cereal and oatmeal. Quinoa is here to spruce up your chilly-weather-breakfast-routine with this easy stovetop porridge recipe. Instead of using water to cook these nutritious seeds (that’s right, quinoa is not…
Sonima Holiday Gift Guide: 20 Of Our Favorite Things
The holiday spirit of giving is wonderful, until you find yourself completely stumped on what to get. We know the feeling, which is why this year, for the first time ever, Sonima has handpicked…
5 Life Lessons Learned at a World-Leading Contemplative Research Conference
The Mind & Life International Symposium for Contemplative Research is the flagship academic conference for researchers, teachers, scientists, scholars and practitioners looking to contemplate, well, contemplation, which, at times, can be just as complicated…
Should You Try the Keto Diet?
The keto craze shows no signs of slowing, let alone stopping. Even if you don’t have a friend or coworker who is following the diet, you have probably seen “keto-friendly” products in the supermarket,…
Intense Anxiety Won’t Let Me Sleep
Dear John, In the last couple years, I have been waking up in the middle of the night gripped by some unnamed fear. Things that don’t seem like a big deal in the daytime…
Can Cannabis Really Help You Heal?
The landscape of lighting up is changing. Long gone are the days of smelling marijuana and finger-wagging at the tie-dye-wearing teens lying in the grass nearby. Now, it’s just as likely to be from…
5 Essential Ayurvedic Herbs that Heal
Ayurveda has a long, rich history of using plants as medicine. And these days, traditional Ayurvedic herbs are getting lots of attention for their now science-backed benefits. But which ones should you try? Here,…
4 Things You Didn’t Know About Karma (and How to Make it Work for You)
Though karma is commonly-cited as a reason for having something good or bad happen in our lives, most people don’t understand the true significance of this spiritual concept that has been around for thousands…
Your November Horoscope—Forthcoming Good Fortune
This November, Saturn continues its transit through Sagittarius and Rahu transits through Cancer. Venus is retrograde until the 19th and Jupiter becomes combust on the 11th. The Sun will remain debilitated until it enters…
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