The Trouble With Finding Your Dream Life

I used to dream about Sedona.After all, this is the reason why I moved from Paris to the US, thirteen years ago. In my imagination, Sedona was less a town than an escape hatch. Red rocks. Artists. Spiritual seekers. People living outside the obsession with money, status, and achievement. I imagin... Read More

A Life Journey of Migrations

The Hopi Spiral:According to Hopi origin stories, when the people emerged into the Fourth World, they were instructed to make four great directional migrations before arriving at their permanent home. They traveled to the farthest páso—where the land meets the sea—in the north, south, east, and w... Read More

Movement Ritual. Thinking Mind. Emotions. Being a Loving Circle and Returning to Flow

Emotional suffering happens when you cast away your painful feelings. Antidepressants, antipsychotics, or sleeping pills will numb your pain but will not make it go away. Filling the void and compensating with addictive behaviors and self-destructive patterns is a dead end. Trying to control your... Read More

Good Bye Poem

Goodbye to regret,that quiet accountant of the could-have-beens. I leave the ledger open, unfinished,and walk away without owing it anything. Goodbye to nostalgia. Goodbye to the past—not as an enemy,but as a house it's time to leave. Its rooms are smaller now,its windows fixed on scenesthat no l... Read More

From the Law of Attraction to the Law of Revulsion

When Spiritual Gurus Discover That the Universe Keeps Emails.For years, we were told the universe was basically a mood ring with Wi-Fi. Think abundant thoughts, attract abundant things. Manifest parking spots. Manifest soulmates. Manifest waterfront property in your preferred tax haven. Desire, b... Read More

You Were Never Meant to Live in a Straight Line

What the Hopi Spiral Taught Me About Getting Lost (and Finding Center Again) We are taught the geometry of life early. A straight line.Forward. Upward. Clean. School becomes work. Work becomes security. Security becomes a mortgage in a politely landscaped suburb where every mailbox looks vaguely ... Read More

Staying Centered While the World Feels Unsteady

On practicing yoga and mindfulness in turbulent times There are seasons when the world feels unsteady. The headlines are loud. Conversations are sharp. The tone of public life is reactive and unkind. Even if you limit your media intake, the anxiety seeps in — through community, through subtle ten... Read More

The Violence of Disembodiment

How we turned the body into a tool, the mind into a tyrant, and called it self-improvementWe don’t live in our bodies anymore — we manage them. We track, optimize, discipline, sculpt, and override them while the mind runs the show, endlessly thinking, judging, narrating. The body is expected to p... Read More

Soul Fragmentation in a Soulless Age

We are living inside a collective dissociation, and we’ve mistaken it for progress. There is something quietly violent about the world we are being asked to accept as “normal.” Not just unjust.Not just broken.But fundamentally split. We live in an age of collective dissociation — where ethics are... Read More