Articles About Wholistic Wellbeing
Discover stories, ideas, and expertise on how to live life healthy, happy, whole.
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DIALOGUE: Melissa Petitto
The dietitian and cookbook author on how adaptogens impact our health and help alleviate stress.
Championing for Global Compassion: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi at RoundGlass India Center
Mulberries and the Seeds of Understanding
By nourishing my family directly from the land, I have made us vulnerable to whatever harm it suffers. It is impossible to maintain the illusion of separation from the natural world.
Bowing Circle
5 min
Washington State Senate Passes Resolution Honoring Sikh Americans
Superhero Poses
5 min
Animal Walk
Walk like an animal to build body awareness and burn through restless energy.
5 min
Back Painting
5 min
Belly Buddies
Relaxing breathwork with a buddy to quickly feel calm.
5 min
Everyday Scientists
Build present-moment awareness and promote focus and gratitude.
5 min
Lion’s Breath
Roar like a lion to release pent-up tension and stress.
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Sense Explorers
Building mindful awareness through the five senses.
5 min
The Kindness Ball
Teach kids to shine their kindness outward for all to see.
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Stand Like a Superhero
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Exploring Identity and Resilience: A Dialogue with Author Prachi Gupta and Ruchika Tulshyan
Learning to Love Me, Myself, and I
Learning to fully accept yourself through the act of self-love can boost happiness and promote emotional resilience.
Meditation versus Mindfulness
We often think of them as one and the same, but meditation and mindfulness are actually two distinct practices.
TiE Seattle Fireside Chat: From Startup to Exit
Nighttime Routines to Curb Anxiety
Add these wellbeing interventions to your nightly ritual to improve the quality — and quantity — of your shut-eye.
Roundglass Foundation: A lasting impact on Punjab’s Future
DIALOGUE: Bonnie Chung
The entrepreneur and cookbook author on Japanese culinary mindfulness and healing traditions, and her twin passions for miso and mental health.
Aging & Longevity
Food and nutrition play a pivotal part in aging well and longevity.
DIALOGUE: Colleen Taylor Sen
The Chicago-based culinary scholar on India’s close relation between food and medicine, unique fasting rituals, and her go-to Indian cookbook.
DIALOGUE: Michal Korkosz
The SAVEUR award winner on his love for Polish cooking, its wealth of vegetarian dishes, and how taking mouthwatering pictures of food is a form of prayer
Heart Health Support
Learn wholesome ways to add the right foods for better heart health.
Dasra Philanthropy Forum: Bridging Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy
The Brain Food: Brahmi Memories
Writing about the nutritional plants of the northeast of India, Hoihnu Hauzel explains the benefits of water hyssop, called brahmi in India.
Understanding Your Carbs
Carbohydrates are macronutrients that are important for energy and sustaining bodily functions. Here’s how to enjoy them in healthy ways.
Healthy Plant-Based Protein
Protein is an important nutrient for our bodies, playing a variety of essential roles in maintaining our health and wellbeing.
The Launch of The Roundglass India Center at Seattle University
Roundglass Sustain Wins the 2023 Audience Award at the UN World Wildlife Day Film Showcase
DIALOGUE: Najat Kaanache
The pilgrim chef on the marriage between Moroccan culinary traditions and global gastronomy, the comfort of a chakcouka, and a wish to cook for Oprah.
Men’s Health & Nutrition
Learn all about men’s nutritional needs for better health and wellbeing.
Nutritional Power of Fruit
Fruit is a nutritional powerhouse, full of antioxidants and dietary fiber. Eating fruit also supports healthy immune function, skin, and hair.
DIALOGUE: Dina Begum
The British Bangladeshi cookbook author on how markets like Brick Lane in London offer culinary comfort for immigrants, the wholesome goodness of a veggie bhorta, and the soothing delights of fennel tea.
Blessed Bhog at Jagannath Temple
Expand your horizons about nutrition, seasonality, and mythology with the sacred food cooked in the largest Hindu temple kitchen in India.
DIALOGUE: Charmaine O’ Brien
The award-winning food historian on India as a culinary superpower, the changing foodscape of India, and its impact on the nation’s eating habits and health.
The Healing Power of Panjiri
When nothing could heal me, my mother’s panjiri did.
DIALOGUE: Irena Stein
The restaurateur and author on how the gluten-free arepa is at the centre of Venezuelan life, and how a smile and laugh can contribute to wellbeing.
DIALOGUE: Lukas Volger
The Brooklyn-based chef on why veggie burgers are unique expressions of vegetables and have a rightful place on your table.
Strong Connections On & Off the Apps
Instead of experiencing love through your likes, apply a little more mindfulness into your day-to-day interactions to achieve the same feeling. See how you can get the most out of your relationships, on and off the apps.
How does Meditation Affect Personal Growth?
In science and mindfulness, personal growth isn’t just a component of wellbeing, it relates to each element of wellbeing.
Yoga for Better Health
Healthy eating habits, exercise routines and stress management are some of the major factors resulting in good health. A regular practice of Yoga can help establish all these modes.
DIALOGUE: Karen R. Koenig
The eating psychologist on why food in our culture has become eat-o-tainment and the links between anger, fear, depression, stress, anxiety, and emotional eating.
Why Grief Never Expires
The honest thing to admit is that you're never letting go of your grief. It's like gaining the holiday five. Another way to consider your grieving timeline is giving yourself time to remember, not forget.
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The Nutritional Wealth of Herbs
Unlock the power of herbs and discover how best to use them. And learn to appreciate them for their medicinal properties, health benefits, and culinary delights.
This App Can Make You Healthier
Roundglass has developed a treatment model called Reframe that offers a wholistic approach to wellbeing by integrating a full spectrum of science-backed, mind-body practices.
Gut Health: Pro- and Prebiotics
Learn about the role of adding probiotics and prebiotics to your diet for better gut health
Tea & Wellness Rituals
Tea ceremonies across Asia offer calming ways to reduce stress and anxiety as you imbibe tea’s medicinal and wellbeing properties.
Drinking Water: Key to Hydration
Hydration is an indispensable part of maintaining good health and wellbeing. Water impacts physical performance, cognitive function, digestion, and skin health.
Sports Nutrition: Peak Performance
Nutrition plays a key part for athletes and all exercisers looking for nourishment to fuel peak performance, especially from plants.
Try This Beginner Visualization
Adding visualizations to a regular meditation practice can have powerful effects on wellbeing. Here’s how to supercharge your meditations with visualizations.
DIALOGUE: Laura Fuentes
The health coach and busy mom on building a positive relationship with food early on for kids, making treats and desserts with vegetables and fruits, and the versatility of oats.
Stories We Tell: A Season in Review
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Breaking the Quiet Addiction
Krushnaa Patil: Climb That Mountain
31 min
Making Life-Changing Choices
Steve Leder: Grief Pain Will Pass
Autoimmunity & Inflammation
Understanding the role of nutrition in managing autoimmune disorders and inflammation.
Morocco Moments: Medina, Cuisine, Craft & the Art of Happiness
Like a magic carpet, Morocco revealed its secrets, rolling out a tapestry of vibrant colors, tantalizing flavors, and a deep-rooted sense of community.
Kill Your Stress Addiction
How to combat toxic productivity and build a solid "stress-less" routine.
DIALOGUE: Ghillie Basan
The prodigious cookbook author on her enduring fascination with Moroccan cuisine, the sublimity of warm couscous in a tagine, and the wellbeing notes of slow cooking.
Medicinal Magic of Nongmangkha
For the indigenous people of northeast India, the nongmangkha’s antipyretic and antibacterial properties make for a healing shrub.
Child Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Introduce a diverse range of plant-based foods to children to build a robust nutritional base and a taste for good food for life.
Q&A: Dr Rupy Aujla
The London-based physician on the impact of behavioral psychology on eating habits, Ayurveda’s relevance to nutritional wellbeing, and the treats he would whip for Drake and Diplo.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya
The New York-based Ayurvedic scholar explains why you are what you digest, not what you eat.
Cooking with Fats and Oils: A Guide
A guide to all we need to know about cooking fats and oils and how they contribute to health and nutrition
Exploring the Power of Ancestral Medicine in Peru
In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, I experienced first-hand the secrets of traditional plant medicine, that left me transformed.
Healing Foods and the Ayurvedic Diet
Ayurveda explains how whole foods and herbal ingredients can aid in healing and boost immunity.
DIALOGUE: Lisa Howard
The wellbeing expert and cooking instructor on how her book breaks the myth that all fats are unhealthy, how oils and fats help the body to access vitamins, and why ghee is a particular favorite of hers.
Q&A: Dan Buettner
Dan Buettner on how the Blue Zones rule of cooking your own food is important, why “diet is taste,” and the universal benefits of a chunky vegetable soup.
DIALOGUE: Emily Weeks
The nutritionist and wellness expert on learning to cook mushrooms as a little girl, the warmth of green tea, and why fruit make for healthy desserts.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Sheil Shukla
The Chicago-based physician and food artist on the importance of culinary medicine, the goodness of spices and lentils, and how cooking is a great way to unwind.
FOCUS: Chasing Pandan
Celebrated in traditional medicine for its curative properties, pandan connects communities, histories, and memories.
Mindfulness for the Classroom
Try these simple, effective tools for a focused classroom with engaged students.
DIALOGUE: Rodney Dunn
The Tasmania-based gardener-chef on connecting with the earth, how food tastes better when shared, and adding flavor with his favorite herb, lovage.
GROW: Spring’s Fleeting Flowers
Spring in North India may not last long, but it’s flowers, fruits, and seeds are plentifully abundant.
Nutrition to Boost Brain Health
The right kind of food can offer benefits for brain health including an increase in cognitive function, a reduction in inflammation, and a lower risk of dementia and strokes.
DIALOGUE: Maggie Beer
The Australian culinary icon on whole foods for brain health, the meditative joys of gardening, and the pleasure of cooking in the musical company of jazz.
5 Yoga Poses Anyone Can Do
These beginner yoga poses will help you stress less, sleep better, and strengthen mind-body awareness.
Cooking Healthy with Hemp
Connecting with our heritage can take us down some unexpected paths, for example, discovering the tradition of cooking with cannabis.
An Audacious Dream: Putting India on the World Football Map
I firmly believe India has the potential to become a global sports powerhouse and Roundglass Sports is on its way to achieve this goal.
Vinyasa Yoga for Beginners
Vinayasa can be seen as a way of flowing in the world as well, framing things in cycles with a beginning, middle, and end.
Health & Nutrition for Women
Find out how certain food and ingredients interact with fertility, pregnancy, menopause, hormones, and overall wellbeing for women.
Try This Practice for Self-Love
Research shows that practicing for as little as 7 weeks reduces stress, improves cognitive function, and increases positivity.
Echoes from the Grinding Stone
A Goan grinding stone sings with memories of hand-ground spices, packed with flavor and nourishment — and strengthens the bonds of family.
Ease Pain with Meditation
In the race to find relief, researchers are increasingly looking at non-pharmaceutical solutions like meditation.
Is Mindfulness a Leadership Trait?
It’s through conscious awareness that we can begin to develop empathy, benefiting both leaders and employees alike.
DIALOGUE: Sean Sherman
The James Beard Awards-winning Sioux chef sketches a blueprint for wellbeing from the ancestral wisdom of Indigenous peoples.
4 Healthier Social Media Habits
If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.
GROW: The Forest of the Sea
We consume seaweed daily, but not always in the most environmentally ethical or nutritious forms.
DIALOGUE: Sandor Ellix Katz
The award-winning author explains how fermentation not only enhances the nutritional quality of food, but can also teach us much about life and death
FORAGE: Dia(spore)ic Cooking
Food anchors us to our roots, but for those who are far from home, working with what's local and seasonal can invite constructive “troublemaking” in family recipes — adapting and redefining traditions of wellbeing.
How to HALT Crappy Feelings
If the idea of pausing to check in with yourself sounds familiar, that’s because the HALT method is a mindfulness practice.
The Fundamentals of Eating Vegan
Going vegan is not only good for the planet, it has a host of health benefits for your heart, gut, and immunity.
DIALOGUE: Divya Alter
A New York-based restauranteur and Ayurveda chef explains how the ancient Indian system offers healing for physical and emotional wellbeing.
The Best Spices for Gut Health
Dive deep into the best spices for gut health, their nutritional backgrounds, and how they contribute to better digestion.
Screen Time Habits & Readiness to Change Quiz
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Sleep Better, Starting Tonight
Integrate one or more of these practices into your daily routine to reap all the benefits of healthy sleep — starting tonight.
Get Comfortable With Stillness
And contrary to popular belief, sitting in stillness isn’t siloed to meditating in a quiet room —you can also be in motion.
Ayurvedic Program in India: My Therapies
These Panchakarma therapies helped improve blood circulation in my body, reduce stress and anxiety, and enhance my overall wellbeing.
Ayurvedic Program in India: My Meals
A mix of light Sattvic foods and herbal supplements worked in tandem to improve my gut flora and digestion, making me feel lighter and energetic.
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How Resetting My Gut Energized Me
On a recent journey to India, I tried an ayurvedic program to ‘reset’ my body. The traditional treatments improved my digestion and made me more energetic. Some of these elements are now part of my daily wellbeing practice.
Healthy Snacks You Can Make at Home
Looking for more energy and nutrition throughout the day? Healthy snacks can offer a delightful, and surprising, avenue towards wellness.
DIALOGUE: Karman Meyer
From chamomile tea to tart cherry juice, a nutritionist explains the science behind food and sleep.
How to Make Meditation a Habit
Bringing the quality of mindfulness into any activity is a good way to start your meditation practice.
The Joy of Discovering Local, Seasonal Flavors
Regional cuisine helps you form an indelible memory of the time and place you visit.
DIALOGUE: Nevin Halici
Award-winning Turkish cookbook author Nevin Halici on the Sufi concept of culinary wellness as worship, food in the company of friends, and her absolute love of yogurt.
The Case Against Resolutions
Use mindful awareness to shift your relationship with financial strain, navigating family relationships, and change in routine.
A Better Way to Reach Your Goals
Resolutions declare what you want to start, while goals take action toward a desired future.
The Purslane Passport
Find out how a humble weed can be a portal to meaningful relationships, a new view on the world, and even hope for a climate-challenged future.
Notes From Qatar: Spice Blends
There is a lot in Qatari cuisine that reminds me of my home in India. The most evocative of all is the use of spices.
21 Days to Less Anxiety
It can be difficult to focus or enjoy life when you’re feeling anxious. These practices can help quiet a racing mind.
Healthy Foods for Better Sleep
Need slumber support? If you want to sleep better, find out what healthy foods can make for a more restful night.
Why You Should Meditate in Nature
Reminding ourselves of natural cycles makes living through the ups and downs of life feel less overwhelming.
Find Focus With Meditation
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to make lifestyle adjustments needed to stay productive.
Dates: A Sweet Note From Qatar
With a caramelly flavor and a texture that hovers somewhere between candy and cake, Qatari dates are a sweet celebration of life.
Find Your Natural Energy Source
While everyone has a unique personal rhythm, many may benefit from a midday rest period when feeling fatigued.
DIALOGUE: Vijay Kumar
The chef of Michelin-starred restaurant Semma talks about putting authentic South Indian dishes on the global map, cooking as therapy, and the healing wisdom of food.
Mustard Greens & Gardening Wisdom
When you treasure your failures, even a fruitless garden can be a wellspring of abundance
Live Lighter: Let Go of Negativity
When you stop looking at the world through a cynical lens, you will be surprised at how easy and productive your life can truly be.
Optimize Your Morning Routine
With tons of books, podcasts, and articles promising to reinvent your morning, know which routine is right for you.
Are You Lonely or Uncomfortable?
Meditation can help you sit with your feelings and take more control when loneliness creeps up.
Life-Transforming: Brewing Kombucha
Do you ever feel as if you don't have enough say in this matter or that one? While some things really are outside your control, adding the power of possibility to your life can be an antidote to that sense of helplessness.
BAKE: My Experiments with Spelt
From ancient Roman wedding cakes to matzo to modern-day baking, spelt is a nutritious alternative to regular wheat
Smoke & Food: An Alluring Combo
A smoker can broaden your culinary repertoire, transforming tomatoes into a versatile, lycopene-rich salsa
The Power of Affirmations
Affirmations can work as personal guides to help you remember your priorities, focus on the task at hand, and truly live in the now.
DIALOGUE: Anna Voloshyna
The Ukrainian cookbook author talks slow food, her favorite herb, and what she would cook for Volodymyr Zelensky.
Pranayama & Mindful Eating
Kindle the fires of mindfulness and digestion through yogic breathing for a better relationship with food.
Want to Become a Death Doula? 5 Questions to Ask
Tiger Nuts for Gluten-Free Baking
Rich in phosphorus and magnesium, as well as high in fiber, these striped ground tubers are a nutritious flour substitute.
DIALOGUE: Nadiya Hussain
With her practical approach to healthy family-friendly cooking, Nadiya Hussain explains how food can help you take responsibility for yourself and others.
Loose Leaf Tea: A Soothing Ritual
Could a more fulfilling way to drink tea also help to save the planet?
The Mindfulness of Mortars
By gently coaxing the nutrients from your ingredients, mortars bring you closer to your food and to good health — you'll feel and taste the difference.
Find Peace in the Chaos of Life
Try to redirect yourself from mindless reactivity toward mindful living to find your daily dose of calm.
How Citrus Can Change Your Life
Sprouting a few yuzu seeds led one couple down an unexpectedly fruitful path
Why Your Child Needs Mindfulness
Being a child is not easy. School and peer pressure are leading to mental health issues among kids. Meditation and mindfulness can help them manage their emotions.
End of Life Roadmap
Create a comprehensive end of life plan for you and your loved ones.
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DIALOGUE: Bryant Terry
An advocate for food justice, editor in chief of 4 Color Books, and vegan chef Bryant Terry talks about his wellness practice, his favorite season for cooking, and what's in his pantry.
How You Can Pay It Forward
Giving back is an essential ethic — everyone can and must give back, in whatever way they can.
RG Spotlight: Prakriti Poddar
Poddar’s decision to follow her purpose has led to an extensive career at Roundglass helping others actualize mental health.
GROW: Generational Greens
Using every part of the plant came naturally to our elders, for whom taste and zero-waste were equally important.
A Kitchen Scent Stirs Memories
A trained perfumer finds that this simple Bulgarian egg dish (the secret ingredient — paprika butter) not only stirs the appetite, but interconnects emotions, memories, and wanderlust.
DIALOGUE: Pierre Thiam
The acclaimed chef and cookbook author discusses his love for okra, the idea of food as medicine in Senegalese culture, and how a clean kitchen helps his creativity flow
DIALOGUE: Saee Koranne-Khandekar
One of India’s most knowledgeable cooks explains why food serves an emotional purpose — and why you should stop to smell the curry leaves.
The Healing Power of Dal-Chawal
Comfort food doesn’t have to be highly processed, elaborately prepared, or overly sweet. In India, simple rice and lentil dishes are the backbone of a healing diet.
Oh My Gourd! A Culinary Epiphany
If you pay attention, a garden can teach you a great deal — including what's for dinner
Dray Gardner: Embrace Struggle
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Tamu Lewis: Let Go of Control
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DIALOGUE: Jenny Rosenstrach
The prolific author/blogger talks about the importance of cooking for others, and how eating less meat is easy — and beneficial for people and the planet
How To Raise Mindful Kids
We learn from a handful of parenting experts, and offer parenting tips and tricks for raising an evolved being.
DIALOGUE: Shoba Narayan
The James Beard Award winner on blessed foods that evoke the soul, the healing warmth of ginger chai, and her precious brass kitchenware.
Chai Is Life
Chai is family, chai is ritual, chai is coming back to the soul.
To put it another way, chai is who I am.
Fermentation: A Transformative Marvel
Here’s a mindfulness practice you may never have tried: Take a dish that you love, apply fermentation to it, and marvel as nature transforms it into something new. You never know when enlightenment might strike.
BAKE: The Joy of Maple Syrup
Dessert should delight, so don't get discouraged if trying something new in the kitchen results in a few missteps. Patience and practice bring sweet rewards.
Tiny Gardens Bring Big Joy
An edible garden in even the smallest of spaces brings joy (and can improve your health too). Here's how to start one of your own. Follow this guide to the best pots, planters, and containers for any micro-plot or patio corner.
FOCUS: Fallen from the Sacred Tree
With a fragrance that could make an elephant drunk, the mahua flower is a source of both medicine and myth in India’s jungles.
The Wilderness Within
Reconnecting with nature is about far more than finding wild things to eat. Over time, it becomes a way to feed your mind and soul by recognizing the gifts of the planet.
DIALOGUE: Maunika Gowardhan
The author and chef shares her thoughts on the comforts of khichdi, the importance of a good playlist in the kitchen, and how a thali can be seen as a metaphor for life.
Rosie Acosta: You Are Enough
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Mega Ran: Prioritize Fun
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GROW: Mugwort Dreams (and Dumplings)
Mugwort might sound like something you want to avoid, but many cultures associate it with healing and lucid dreaming. Give mugwort a home in your garden — and tuck it into some dumplings
DIALOGUE: Preeti Mistry
The rebel chef talks with us about the versatility of ginger, the wisdom of preparing an easy salad in advance, and cooking as an act of love.
DIALOGUE: Abhijit Banerjee
The Nobel laureate shares his thoughts on cooking as an act of generosity, fruit as a feast for the eyes, and the pleasure of eating mindfully.
FOCUS: Our Backyard Superfood
Wellness companies call roselle a “wonder leaf.” To my family, its healing properties were part of everyday life.
DIALOGUE: Dr. Gary Deng
An acclaimed wellness expert shares his insights on diversifying your diet, using your mind to derail sugar cravings, and the right way to do breakfast.
DIALOGUE: Nik Sharma
The trailblazing writer shares his thoughts on the power of nigella seeds, the pleasure of snacking on seaweed, and the problem with the word “healthy.”
Andrea Sonnenberg: Navigating Tragedy
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Jonny Benjamin: Beyond the Journey
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FOCUS: How Sweet It Is
Whether stirred into tea or smeared on cornmeal roti, jaggery delivers mineral-rich delight to your day.
PRACTICE: Rice Is Life
Across India, rice dishes appear as blessed offerings in temple kitchens. Rice is ritual, rice is nourishment, and — sometimes — rice is a way to say farewell.
BAKE: Things Are Starting to Gel
Our columnist experiments with agar-agar — a gelatin substitute that’s perfect for home cooks who want to avoid meat — and finds her way to sweet relief.
The Stories We Tell: The Power of Using Your Voice
Advocating for yourself can be a can be difficult, even scary sometimes, especially when many of us are taught not to rock the boat.
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The Stories We Tell: Why Opposites Attract
Join spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti in deep conversations with a wide range of special guests as they open up about their personal journeys.
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DIALOGUE: Hetty McKinnon
The cookbook author, magazine founder & vegetable advocate speaks with us about “third-culture cooking,” dumplings as a mode of meditation & why she’s passionate about salad
The Stories We Tell: Building Love From Loss
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GROW: Kelp Is on the Way
Seaweed farming holds huge promise for a sustainable future of food, and sugar kelp — possibly the most delicious of all — also inspires innovation, collaboration, and community.
7 Steps to Manage Difficult Emotions
It might seem counterintuitive but facing your emotions can support you in processing them.
A Meditation on Effortlessness
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DIALOGUE: Hawa Hassan
The author and entrepreneur on her favorite smoothie, the importance of blessing your food, and why you should choose dates over doughnuts.
Yoga for Life: My 5 Favorite Poses
Yoga makes me feel alive. This International Day of Yoga, try out the practice to better help you interconnect your mind, body, and soul.
Embrace Loneliness, Make It Your Ally
In a crowded club or when you are alone in your room, you need to remember — you are enough.
How to Build Healthier Habits
It’s time to reimagine how we look at habit building and consider shaking up routines with some help from the experts.
The Garden as a Place of Solace
A garden can feed you, of course. But it can also connect you to your family, guide you though difficult times, and even show you the path to a new career.
How to Befriend Your Ego
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Welcome to 'The Stories We Tell'
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Find Purpose Through Service
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Tap Into the Healing Energy of Nature
Skip the coffee and revitalize yourself by taking a few deep breaths as you spend time in nature.
On Fermentation and Waiting
Fermentation doesn’t just make vegetables taste good. It can teach us how to conduct our lives with patience & perseverance.
Why Are People Switching Jobs During Uncertain Times?
Companies need to start looking at employees as “whole beings” instead of mere productive resources if they want to retain their best talent.
6 Mindfulness Exercises To Do at Work
These 5-minute mindfulness activities can be practiced anywhere — a sofa, chair, the floor or even while standing.
Why You Need to Start Meditating
Maintenance of the mind should be a daily priority, but it takes a back seat to our physical needs. Enter meditation, a source for healthy balance in a busy world.
Miraculous Mushrooms
Having a steady supply of delicious and nutritious cooked mushrooms couldn’t be easier — all you need is some salt, some garlic, and a pan full of olive oil
Living with Earplugs Out
Now that I wasn’t able to find time for my regular meditation routine, I wondered how it could help.
To Cook, To Hope, To Understand
As the years pass and a parent enters her 80s, a daughter feels a sense of urgency about cooking alongside mom in the kitchen — and renewing a family connection to Japan
Care for the Planet: Eat Sustainably
We need to change our daily food habits to do our bit in saving the planet.
Own Your Healing Journey
Life tends to put us through the wringer repeatedly. By using Wholistic Wellbeing, we can learn how to soothe the blues and heal ourselves emotionally and mentally.
Hit Refresh: Learn to Tackle Your Creative Blocks
Use your ingenuity to empower yourself and find new ways to recharge your creative self.
Change Your Habits with Meditation
We see meditation as not just a healthy habit, but as one of few enablers of building healthy mental and behavioral habits.
All You Need Is Awe
Awe need not always be larger than life. Tune into your 'aha' moments — a glorious sunset, a lilting tune, the centeredness within — and let them take your breath away. It’s good for your wellbeing.
Spending Wisely on Things We Love
Love not the act of spending. Spend mindfully on things you love and that truly matter to you. It’s essential to your financial wellbeing.
The Last Goodbye: Leave a Legacy of Love
Death is a difficult reality we all must face one day. But when you think about it with intention, you can find joy to bequest to the next generation.
Moving On From Failure: What Every Entrepreneur Must Know
Failure is not you — it’s just an episode in your life. Listen to your inner voice, follow your courage, and act with conviction even when the going gets tough.
Learn to Unplug: Make Time to Decompress
Switch off your always-on mindset. Reclaiming your life and attention from technology can help you stay calm and centered even when things get tough.
Find Serenity in Deep Relaxation
Cut off from the noise of daily life and find moments of deep relaxation. Inhale and infuse yourself with calm, exhale out the stress.
Convert Climate Concern Into Action
We have #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take a pledge to do our bit to defray the damage we have caused to our planet.
Return to Office: What Happens to Family Time?
We’re stepping into a new ‘new normal’ — the return to office, schools, and colleges. While it may cut down family time, there’s no need to fret over the quality of connection with our loved ones.
Track Fitness with Feelings, Not Numbers
Let your joy at playing a sport, finding mental and physical balance, or just basking in nature be the new yardsticks to measure your fitness.
Sleep Easy
Do you dream of sleeping better? There’s no right or wrong way of doing it. But you can certainly create conditions that suit you to be able to sleep well.
How to Cope with Return-to-Office Anxiety
Going back to office may not be the ideal situation for many, but seeking harmony and practicing mindfulness can help you improve your workplace wellbeing.
The Gift of Conflict: Find a Clever Solution
You can flip the way you manage conflict and turn it to your advantage by applying creativity, mindfulness, and compassion.
Healthy Habits to Boost Productivity
With homeworking expected to remain commonplace for many — even as the pandemic recedes — executives recommend habits that can promote healthy bursts of work, and leave enough time for rest.
Six Ways to Set Up a Clean Workstation
Learn how to keep your desk clean and organized by managing cables, optimizing storage, and creating segments for different tasks.
Yoga: The Antidote to Chronic Fatigue
While there is no cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), yoga is an effective and proven way of dealing with its effects. Read on to know more.
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A Guiding Light: The Role of Mentorship
Having a mentor is not just about career success, it's also about having emotional and mental support at work.
Chakra Meditations for Sleep
When the root chakra is imbalanced or blocked, it can be difficult to fall asleep, and it can also show up in our dreams.
Five Things I Would Tell My Younger Self
You need more than a relentless drive, laser-like focus, and long working hours to succeed in life.
What’s on Your Plate: Embrace a Balanced Diet
To live a long, healthy life, we need to prioritize food that is whole, healthy, and responsibly sourced
Put Your Money Where Your Heart Is
The next time you want to invest in a new product, app, or company, ask yourself if the venture compels you on an emotional level.
Let’s Prioritize Women’s Wellbeing
For a healthy and equitable world, we need to ensure Wholistic Wellbeing of women at the workplace, in society, and, most importantly, at home.
Best Ways to Maintain a Straight Posture
Encourage your employees to stop slouching and have a straight posture by avoiding text-neck, investing in an ergonomic workstation, and shifting positions often.
Why Mindfulness Isn’t Working Anymore
What began as an effective tool to give employees some peace of mind has now turned into a fad. What’s the reason?
Mindful Eating: Get a Taste of Wellbeing
Do you recollect what you ate for breakfast or lunch today? Did you eat it well? Did you savour your food?
FORAGE: The Other Mississippi River
The practice of foraging is about much more than wild food — it’s about cultivating a relationship with the natural world
BAKE: The Tao of Dough
How whole-wheat Sonora flour brought my baking into focus — and deepened my connection to home
Fun Ways to Stay Active at Home
Don’t let remote working ruin your employees’ physical wellbeing. By introducing walking meetings, virtual yoga sessions and encouraging a balanced diet, you can push them to stay active at home.
PRACTICE: The Food Sabbath
Feeling stressed and stretched too thin? You just might find an antidote to the anxiety by bringing your loved ones together for the weekly ritual of a food sabbath
Success Begins with Self-Discipline
Go with the Flow: Enhance Athletic Potential with Mindfulness
Mindfulness can help sportspersons improve concentration, reduce stress and anxiety, and overcome distractions on the field.
New Ways of Loving in the New Normal
Over the last two years, love — both masked and unmasked — has been about showing affection in more genuine, authentic ways than we had ever thought possible.
Wholistic Learning for Women
Wellbeing Programs Your Employees Need, But Don’t Ask For
The ideal employee wellbeing program must include doctor consultations, lifestyle disease management, stress management and one-on-one counselling sessions.
Best Ways to Give Feedback to Your Employees
The best way to provide feedback to your employees is by being constructive, listening to them, gauging their reaction and asking for their feedback as well.
How to Support Parents in the Workplace
Being empathetic, offering flexible schedules, in-house creches, paternity leave and family-friendly policies can be a huge support for parents in the workplace.
What Has Remote Working Taught Us?
Make remote working more productive through flexible schedules, creating an organized workspace, socializing and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Things Not to Say to Women in the Workplace
That snide remark on her lipstick or work-life balance may not be as “harmless” as you thought. Read on to know what NOT to say to female co-workers.
Creating a Stress-Free Environment
By building trust, listening to your employees, and encouraging collaboration and work-life balance, leaders can create a stress-free environment at work.
Improving Mental Health for Remote Workers
By offering flexible working hours, expressing gratitude and spreading awareness about mental wellbeing services, leaders can improve the collective mental health of their organization.
6 Questions Great Leaders Ask Employees
Caring managers not only look after their employees’ best interests, but also learn something from them.
Burnout Signs Managers Need to Notice
Managers need an empathetic eye for detail to identify early signs of burnout. This can help them customize well-being programs for employees to prevent or decrease the effects of burnout, significantly.
How to Avoid Workplace Loneliness
Workplace loneliness is a rising problem, however, it’s never too late to address it. Organizations and individuals need to be more aware of their initiatives towards offering support.
Destigmatizing Mental Health at Work
The Roundglass Wellbeing at Work Survey 2019-20 suggests a majority of organizations are not doing enough to promote mental wellbeing at work. Here’s how your organization can destigmatize mental wellbeing.
Is Presenteeism Harming Productivity?
A workplace that treats employees like individuals with emotions, rather than a productivity tool, will have greater success because they are putting the individual first.
Here's Why Your Organization Needs Paternity Leave
Offering paternity leave can reduce gender inequality, social stigma in the workplace, and help working fathers establish work-life balance.
Dealing with Imposter Syndrome at Work
Imposter syndrome makes employees feel inadequate despite evident success. By discussing it with your employees, applauding their achievements and creating a positive environment, you can deal with imposter syndrome at work successfully.
Role of Wellbeing Champions in Wellbeing Programs
Wellness champions in the workplace are integral to understanding the needs of your employees and ensure the success of your wellbeing program.
Happiness Quotient Boosts Employee Productivity
Happy employees are the most productive. By taking small steps to create workplace happiness, conflicts can be prevented and absenteeism reduced. This can lead to increased engagement and output.
Improve Employee Financial Wellbeing
Employee financial wellbeing can be enhanced by understanding their needs, offering financial education, and providing access to a financial consultant.
Impact of Physical Workspaces on Workplace Wellbeing
It’s important to create a workspace that’s well-ventilated, has ample natural light, spacious, offers fun zones to unwind and reflects the company culture.
Think you have work life balance? Answer these questions
How is your work-life balance? Answer these questions to see for yourself.
How Leaders Can Manage Remote Teams Effectively
Leading a remote team can be tricky. Make empathy the cornerstone of your leadership by checking in on your employees frequently and being patient at work.
Creating a Healthy Virtual Work Culture
Have you evaluated your company’s virtual work culture? Here are the things you should be focusing on.
Hybrid Workplace Model — Good or Bad For Work Culture?
We are trying to decode the new hybrid workplace in the best way possible — a list of its pros and cons!
Successful Virtual Teams Stay Socially Connected
Virtual teams are here to stay in the midst of this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how a successful virtual team stays socially connected.
Get Set, Reset. And Get Moving.
When we disrupt the usual flow of things, we free ourselves from self-imposed constraints.
Love Your Body. Love Yourself.
Accepting ourselves and our bodies is the first step we need to take to feel as beautiful inside as we strive to be outside.
Fraternity For All: We Are One Global Family
We are not alone on this journey of life. Every relationship in our lives has a lasting impact on our Wholistic Wellbeing.
Beyond Work: Finding Synergy at The Workplace
A synergistic workplace makes room for fresh ideas and improved employee engagement
On the ‘Continuation’ of Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Find Your Sport for Life
Movement is wellbeing. What sport makes you tick?
Lean On Your Friends. And Let Them Lean On You.
There’s no better therapy than sitting down with a friend — and just being.
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It
Dreams are manifestations of our brain at its most potent and creative. Why not make the most of this in your daily life?
Don’t Set SMART Goals, Set Big Ones
By choosing a goal that's bigger than yourself, you're acknowledging that you don't have all the answers.
The Mind-Body Benefits of Meditation
Meditation can even improve the quality and duration of sleep as much as a sleeping pill.
5 Common Myths of Meditation
Many compare wandering thoughts to clouds – watch them as you would watch the clouds, passing over and impermanent.
Dear Angel, I want the end to be easier...
Dear Angel is a column where we dig into personal questions that accompany death and dying. No question is out of bounds.
Live joyfully by spending where it matters
5 Ways to Live Beyond Fear
What you’re most afraid of is usually not based in the reality of the present moment.
Yoga: Relaxation, Fitness, or Both?
Much has been made of yoga's mental and emotional benefits, but what are its physical virtues?
The Synergy of Science and Spirituality
In a world so often torn apart by division, greed, and partisanship, a global dialogue between science and spirituality can be comforting.
New Beginnings in the Workplace
How can holacracy improve our Professional Wellbeing?
Will the Pain Ever Go Away?
Dear Angel is a weekly column where we dig into deeply personal questions that accompany death and dying. No question is out of bounds.
New year, new relationships
It’s not necessarily about broadening our friendship group, but about re-examining our present relationships to make them more worthwhile.
The Power of Reforestation
Find out about the Plant for Punjab initiative and why reforestation projects are so important.
Bringing joy to your life brings joy to the world
Find your passion to improve your Financial Wellbeing
We often shy away from pursuing our passion professionally in favor of a job that offers financial security. But done right, we can unite Financial Wellbeing with professional fulfilment.
Tricks to Stop Stress Eating
'When people soothe themselves with food, what they are trying to do is calm their nervous system.'
Exploring a New Creative Activity
Mindful Eating For Kids
Call out smells and sensations to get your kids excited about paying attention to their meals.
Religion Can Learn From Mindfulness
Religion could benefit from mindfulness practices — giving it a radical approach that will resonate with future generations.
Welcoming New Beginnings in 2022
Dream Yoga for the Mind and Soul
For more advanced students of yoga, lucid dreaming is a fun and eye-opening challenge
Embracing the flow of life through synchronicity
Expand Your Practice: Doshas
A central theme of the practice is to create a balanced lifestyle that supports energy flow in the body for wholistic health.
Tapping Into the Vitality of Nature
Walks in nature come with obvious physical and emotional benefits. But they are equally essential to our Planetary Wellbeing.
Expand Your Practice: Ayurveda
Ayurveda aims to find a state of equilibrium in the body, and meditation is one of the modalities used for this harmony.
Rewilding and urban gardening for Planetary Wellbeing
These practices are vital because they show us a world where we exist in harmony with nature.
Wholistic Wellbeing and the Joy of Giving
Honoring International Human Solidarity Day
Interspecies Friendships: How Can Pets Facilitate Wholistic Wellbeing?
Seeking Wholistic Wellbeing through our elders
From CSR to Corporate Citizenship
How can we extend the culture of giving back beyond the office space?
International Universal Health Coverage Day
Democratizing Wholistic Wellbeing starts by democratizing universal healthcare
Mindful Eating: Unpack Your Hunger
Discerning the type of “hunger” we are experiencing is crucial in removing any negative feeling that affect our food choices.
From Hedonism to Eudaimonia: finding the true sense of lasting happiness
Winter Solstice Wellbeing Rituals
Winter solstice reminds us to honor taking time to slow down, and release what is no longer serving us.
Should You Meditate With Your Pet?
We often come into meditation postures with a gentle touch and a lightness in our energy that invites our pets closer.
Connecting with Nature for Wholistic Wellbeing
We so often forget that we are rooted in Nature. Rekindling with our source can be an act of wellbeing.
Why your Company Needs a Robust Wholistic Wellbeing Plan
Redefining workplace needs in the post-pandemic workplace
Meditation for Self-realization
Wholistic Wellbeing is about discovering who you are. For some, meditation for self-realization is a key stage of the journey of growth.
From Practical Meditations to the Practice of Meditation
We shouldn't think of meditation as something to do in our spare time, but as a constant state of being that gives us more spare time.
Mindfulness for Every Meal
To move away from habits and compulsions, and toward awareness, we must chart our body’s day-to-day requirements.
Empowering women to reclaim Wholistic Wellbeing
Let’s empower women to embrace their interests and passions in a safe environment
Why You Need A Gratitude Jar
Once your brain is trained to focus on positive experiences, you bring more positivity into your everyday life.
Start A Daily Meditation Habit
The more we practice meditation, the better we are at tracking what’s going on in our lives and the world around us.
Try This: Mindful Listening
Once you have awareness of what you are hearing outside and within, mindful listening encourages letting go of distractions.
Why We Need Wholistic Wellbeing
Philosophy for More Wholistic Wellbeing
Musings on World Philosophy Day
Pushing Past Pain With Meditation
I saw how our ancestry can shape us. And I saw how, along with generational trauma, comes generational wisdom.
What Is Attention Activism?
Use this practice that highlights the need to reclaim our attention with intention.
Collaboration for greater Wholistic Wellbeing
The Benefits of Eating Like a Yogi
The need to keep your body in a state of calm involves focusing on the timings and quality of food.
Invest in Inclusivity for Wholistic Growth
How can technology assist Wholistic Wellbeing in creating a more inclusive workplace?
Listening to Our North Star through Mindfulness Meditation
In astronomy, the North Star is constant all year round; our own North Star is our purpose: never moving, never changing.
Milestones, millions, and making a difference.
Putting the theory of Wholistic Wellbeing in practice, the Roundglass Foundation has touched one million lives in over one thousand villages of Punjab.
Moving Your Body and Breath through the Power of Yoga
There are many different kinds of yoga out there. In this article, I set out to explore their different benefits.
The 5 States of Mind
To reach the state of absolute calmness and balance, we must first understand the different states of mind.
Beginner’s Guide to the Chakras
All that exists in the universe exists within the body.
The Wisdom of Grief
How to reframe our view of disabilities through Wholistic Wellbeing
As we move away from the abled VS disabled binary towards a world where we value everyone's different abilities, Wholistic Wellbeing can help us create a more inclusive world.
Using Wholistic Wellbeing to Reappraise Fitness
Fitness and exercise are more than just a health pastime: they’re part of a lifestyle.
Team Sports Can Help You Be a Good Leader
Participating in a team sport can help you improve your emotional and professional wellbeing.
Planetary Wellbeing for Personal Wellbeing
Being mindful of your carbon footprint can enhance both your own wellbeing and that of the planet.
The Joy of Connecting with Children
How can learning from those younger than ourselves improve our Wholistic Wellbeing?
The Importance of a Colorful Plant-based Nutrition
We eat with our eyes as well as our stomachs, so why not eat a rainbow?
Gaining ground in the Junior Men National Championship
RGS Hockey Junior Boys Hockey Team finish fourth out of 28 teams in their first ever national level tournament.
Embracing Wholistic Wellbeing through intersectionality
In a world that increasingly values and recognizes the complexity of diversity, how does intersectionality inform Wholistic Wellbeing?
Mindful Listening can Help you Level Up at Work
Clear communication is an essential aspect of workplace wellbeing. But it's not all about talking
5 Tips For Mindful Eating
When we are not appreciating and enjoying, we then tend to think more of quantity rather than the quality of food.
How to Start a Meditation Practice
Starting small with a 30-second practice sends a powerful message to the brain that we can quiet our thoughts briefly.
What's Your Meditation Style?
Some prefer guided-meditation, and for teachers or individuals with an advanced practice, self-meditation may work better.
The Truth About Stress & Mindfulness
'Breath control is the most effective way to control our stress, and regulate the stress response when we're reactive.'
Bronze Champions: Success for our Boys in Hockey
RGS Hockey Sub-Junior Boys Team won bronze in the Hockey India Academy National Sub-Junior Tournament, wherein 24 teams participated across India.
The Creative Vitality of Our Lives
A key component of meditation, creativity is about letting go, feeling free, and connecting to your deeper self.
How can we enrich our financial wellbeing by slowing down?
How can we measure our lives in wellbeing rather than in numbers?
Excellence V Perfectionism
How can we encourage employee excellence without pressuring perfectionism?
Yes, You Should Meditate in Your 20s
Being twenty-something is prime-time to understand your mind and heart, and to undo any intergenerational trauma.
Why I founded Roundglass Sustain
A desire to give back and a love for the wonders of the natural world have motivated Sunny's strides in sustainability.
How Parents can Impart Wholistic Wellbeing to their Children
We need to teach our children to meditate: to travel to a quiet place in their mind where they become the master of their emotions and thoughts
5 Ways to Heal Your Inner Child
When you feel old wounds drowning out your authentic self, use these tools to help heal your inner child.
Here’s How Music Can Help You Sleep
Few adults fall asleep to lullabies anymore, but studies show we might want to consider it.
How do we know we're choosing the right books on wellbeing?
How Meditation Can Help You Sleep
While focusing on fluffy white sheep can be helpful, focusing the mind through meditation practices is even better.
What Are the 8 Limbs of Yoga?
When practiced, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras function as steps to controlling the mind in pursuit of liberation.
What Happens When You Meditate Daily?
Long-term mindfulness may influence your approach to pain, inviting curiosity and acceptance rather than fear or denial.
The role of music in our Wholistic Wellbeing
Restorative Yoga Changed My Life
For some, yoga is just an exercise. For others, it's a deep spiritual path. For me, it's both these things and so much more. Yoga — and 2 styles in particular — transformed my body and my mind from the inside out.
The Secret to Stronger Relationships
Try and love one person without limits or bounds. If you can commit to this, everything else will feel small compared.
How to Find Life’s Purpose — Hint, It’s Not What You Think
Rather than searching for your purpose, or dharma, outside of yourself, ask why you’re feeling lost or unfulfilled.
Yoga for Positive Energy
What we put out into the world, we receive back from it, so it’s important to consciously work to keep negativity at bay.
Why Businesses should Embrace Corporate Wellbeing
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How Food Affects our Wellbeing Daily
Transforming ecology with organic agriculture
Decades of industrial farming in India have dealt a heavy blow to the environment. But the impact is not irreversible.
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Why I Created the Roundglass Foundation
Wholistic Wellbeing has been an inspiration to give back to the communities that shaped me.
How to Meditate for Beginners
Let go of what you think meditation is, what you believe meditating looks like, and if you're doing it 'right.'
Buddhism Helped Heal My Addiction
When I brought awareness to my dark parts and understood the chaos they were causing, my true healing began.
Meditation: A Powerful Tool for Radiant Health
It is tough to focus our mind, but science now proves an inherent correlation between the mind, breath, and energy.
Magnetism: The Key to Success and Wellbeing
When our willpower is bound heavily by habit, it ceases to draw upon inspiration. Here's how to change that.
Breathe Your Way to Deep Relaxation
Not surprisingly, diaphragmatic breathing slows the heartbeat and lowers or stabilizes blood pressure.
The Secret to True Self-Acceptance
To build the world each of us deserves, it's important to truly love our ethnic background from a place of compassion.
Reconnect with Nature From Anywhere
Don’t let being inside or the busyness of the day keep you from getting your daily dose of the natural world.
3 Ways to Find Presence Right Now
Feeling dull or disconnected is a byproduct of the overdrive and hyperactive states we often find ourselves in.
How 3 grief professionals find space for self-care
In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways from “Griever’s Guide to Father’s Day”, an event featuring a number of grief experts and professionals who were willing to share intimate stories and advice about how they navigate the Father’s Day holiday.
How 3 grief professionals find space for commemoration
In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways from “Griever’s Guide to Father’s Day”, an event featuring a number of grief experts and professionals who were willing to share intimate stories and advice about how they navigate the Father’s Day holiday.
How to find grief support during tough holiday seasons
In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways from “Griever’s Guide to Father’s Day”, an event featuring a number of grief experts and professionals who were willing to share intimate stories and advice about how they navigate the Father’s Day holiday.
Reminders as you navigate a tough holiday
In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways from “Griever’s Guide to Mother’s Day”, an event featuring a number of grief experts and professionals who were willing to share intimate stories and advice about how they navigate the Mother’s Day holiday.
How to find support during challenging grief periods or holidays
In this article, we summarize some of the key takeaways from “Griever’s Guide to Mother’s Day”, an event featuring a number of grief experts and professionals who were willing to share intimate stories and advice about how they navigate the Mother’s Day holiday.
5 Ways to Find Calm—Fast
Don't be fooled by the simplicity of these quick, accessible, and in-the-moment practices; they function this way for a reason.
What is a Will?
Welcome to Part 1 of our EOL Guide on Wills. I mean, what is a will, anyway? In this article, we highlight the important elements.
Meditation to Live More Fully
Mindful pauses allow you to experience brief moments of beauty or intensity you may have been too distracted to notice.
EOL Guide: What Are The Options For My Body When I Die?
It takes only a few moments of consideration to see that our traditional ways of handling dead bodies aren't working anymore.
Green Burials 101
Learn about this environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional burials.
Planning Your Funeral
Planning your funeral can feel daunting, overwhelming even, but it doesn't have to be. Start here.
Establishing a Health Care Proxy
Choosing a health care proxy could be the most important decision you make for yourself when it comes to end of life care.
How I Made Deep Adult Friendships
Just the awareness of the way I was walling myself off from others, changed me. Something started to soften.
Feeling Lonely? Ask Yourself This
Like a stomach rumbling, the feeling of loneliness is an alarm bell. In this case, it’s telling us that we need connection.
FERMENT: Food is Medicine
Just ask my grandmother, who is nearing 100 and has an insatiable appetite for pickles, vinegar, and other fermented delights that can help keep us healthy
The Importance of a Quiet Place
I gave up the Hong Kong jackpot for a garden in Taipei, where I nurture plants — and they nurture me
Moving at Mushroom Speed
If you want to find morels in the forest, you’ll need to endure the ticks and brambles — and then look around and slow way down
3 Mindfulness Tips for New Parents
Instead of letting your mind make up a story about how it's going to be, embrace the unknown.
Understanding Your Fear of Failure
If we want grow in the way that I think we are meant to in our journeys — we have to look right at that fear and deal with it.
Find Your Center with Whiring
In whirling, we release dependence on the outside world and develop a deep inner centering.
Find Deep Healing Through Whirling
Whirling doesn't cause anything to happen, necessarily, but it does allow energy to shift, bringing us into a healthy balance.
How Mantra Changed My Life
One of the remarkable things about mantra is it does deep work on you, but not in a flashy way. It’s steady and consistent.
5 Benefits of Chanting Mantra
When you chant mantra, you fall into a repetitive trance. This helps regulate your breath, training it into consistent rhythm.
Try This Mantra to Honor the Sun
Chanting Gayatri Mantra regularly may assist in promoting better memory and concentration, while bringing peace.
How to Connect to Your Ancestors
These connections can help us feel more fulfilled and supported in our lives, and they are not mutually exclusive.
7 Benefits of Visualization
Creating better outcomes isn’t just about visualizing a situation; it’s also about being your best self.
The Secrets of Sanskrit
Many who study Sanskrit refer to 'the Sanskrit effect,' in which they experience what seems to be enhanced verbal memory.
How I Learned to Whirl
As my practice continues, I have learned that anything can be a teacher when we tune in to our hearts.
8 Common Myths About Whirling
Whirling can bring about misconceptions with its mysterious ways, but the practice starts and ends as a meditation.
5 Health Benefits Of Mindfulness
Mindfulness skills are well-suited to help people engage with uncomfortable, frustrating, and traumatic encounters.
Dear Angel, I'm angry and I don't know what to do ...
Dear Angel is a space where we dig into deeply personal questions that inevitably accompany death and dying. No question is out of bounds.
EOL Guide: Wills
In this guide, we make plain and simple what a will is, how to create one, what happens if you don’t have one when you die, helpful tips to ensure that your will stands the test of time, and how to navigate disagreements if there's a contested will in your family.
How do you talk to kids about death?
What do you remember a loved one cooking for you?
If you were to design your own funeral or memorial...?
What song would you want played at your funeral?
Facing Death: Finding Dignity, Hope and Healing at the End
Dr. Jim deMaine shares the powerful introduction to his new book.
How to begin a conversation about end of life planning
Why it is scary and the lessons we have learned to begin this important conversation.
My Husband Died...
Dear Angel is a weekly column where we dig into deeply personal questions that inevitably accompany death and dying. No question is out of bounds.
You Are More Creative Than You Think
Creativity can be perceived as your unique style and imprint on everything you do.
Is TV Getting Better at Handling Death?
A new generation of creators are depicting a different version of end of life on screen. In doing so, television may become a more effective toolkit for those experiencing grief
Should I Make a Career Change into the End of Life Space?
The pandemic has changed many of our priorities, encouraging some to consider becoming a death doula
Q&A: BJ Miller on an Accessible Model of Palliative Care
We spoke to Dr. BJ Miller about his new company Mettle Health, and how he plans to transform palliative care
Grief and Its Body of Work
What we know and what remains to be learned about how our bodies handle grief
Use Kundalini To Deepen Intuition
I was always aware of my intuition, but I did not always have the wherewithal to act on it before practicing Kundalini yoga.
Improve Your Spinal Flexibility
Introduce fluidity and ease into your body and life by stretching the spine.
Q&A: Alua Arthur on Shifting Death Care
Alua Arthur is a death doula, attorney, adjunct professor, ordained minister, and founder of Going With Grace.
Mindful Breathing Isn’t For Everyone
I found a teacher who offered visualizations while working with the breath, and techniques for grounding in the body.
3 Virtues That Benefit Humankind
As you cultivate these virtues, you’ll find you’re giving a gift not only to yourself, but to the world around you.
Chase Peace of Mind, Not Happiness
I believe we should set our sights on peace of mind, because when our mind is calm, it doesn’t matter if you’re happy.
5 Steps to Change Any Habit
To change our lives, we need to analyze the behaviors we don’t like and think of different ways to act.
4 Ways to Build A Resilient Mind
If you want to live a fruitful life, you need to create resilience by focusing on purpose, persistence, sensitivity, and analysis.
Dr. Ryan Van Wert is Addressing a Critical Unmet Need in End of Life Care
We were recently joined by Dr. Ryan Van Wert, critical care doctor, clinical assistant professor at Stanford, and CEO and co-founder of Vynca. Vynca was built in response to research that shows most healthcare organizations have little-to-no end of life care process.
Navigating Christianity and Grief as a Queer Person
Rachael Ward, Co-founder of Bible Queery Collective and Marketing Manager for EOL, sat down with us for an intimate talk about where they, as part of the queer community, hope for improvement in end-of-life and grief care.
5 Questions For Spiritual Detox
You don't need a shaman to detox your heart of negative emotions. Start with these questions, and the work will unfold.
Chef Dan Barber Talks Food, Comfort, and Love
On November 23, 2020, during the global pandemic, we invited many of our country’s prominent chefs to come together for an online gathering. They shared stories about their lost loved ones and the power food has to connect us.
Dan Barber, chef and co-owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, NY, in a matter of minutes, pulled us intimately into two kitchens from his childhood.
Alice Waters Remembers Mentor Lulu Peyraud
In November 2020, we joined Tembi Locke and Kate DeBartolo to host a conversation with luminary chefs Alice Waters, Dan Barber, and others, for a legacy celebration of those we have cooked with and those we have lost.
Empathy is Everywhere and Nowhere at the Same Time: A Conversation with Dr. Adrienne Boissy
We co-hosted a discussion for hundreds of healthcare workers with Chief Experience Officer of the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Adrienne Boissy, and Justin Baldoni, Director of the Disney film "Clouds." 'Empathy' was the obvious opener.
To Find Happiness, Stop Chasing It
I noticed how everyone – myself included – constantly chased after these ephemeral pleasures of life, never quite satisfied.
How Tech Can Transform End of Life: SAGA, Mideo, and Trust and Will
Every month we join our friends from the Cleveland Clinic to explore three extraordinary new technology solutions for clinicians and home-based caregivers.
Director Justin Baldoni on How Birth and Death are Beautifully, and Painfully, the Same
When we caught wind of the film "Clouds," we reached out to director Justin Baldoni to understand how this story about dying became a Disney film.
Justin Baldoni Talks about the Powerful Space at the Bedside of the Dying
At EOL’s premier of the beautiful Disney film Clouds, Justin Baldoni blew us away with his thoughtful insights and specific gratitude for end-of-life care professionals. Before it was all said and done, we were transported with him into a deeply intimate and moving family experience.
Q&A: Reframing Death (and Life) with Justin Baldoni
On October 24, 2020, we gathered hundreds of healthcare workers for an open discussion with Justin Baldoni, Director and Producer of Disney's "Clouds," and Adrienne Boissy, physician and Chief Experience Officer at the Cleveland Clinic.
Ways to Heal From Inside to Out
By losing my life as I knew it, I was given the opportunity to change everything I was doing and create a brand-new life.
Cultivate Love for Your Body
Our culture supports being critical of our bodies, but if we can love them instead, we can change our lives.
To Love Yourself, Know Yourself
It took a cancer diagnosis, lots of inner work, and a lifestyle change to help me realize I needed to cultivate self-love.
Grief Theories and the Thinking Behind Them
From the COVIDPAPER.ORG
Coping with Death on the Front Lines, a Medical Perspective
From the COVIDPAPER.ORG, Paper Editors: Candi K. Cann, Ph.D, Michael Hebb, Megan Devine, LCPC, Alica Forneret, Allison Gilbert, Lashanna Williams, Stephanie Gailing, Silvia Perez-Protto, M.D., Rana Adwish, M.D.
Grieving in a Pandemic: Connection in a Difficult Time
From the COVIDPAPER.ORG, Paper Editors: Candi K. Cann, Ph.D, Michael Hebb, Megan Devine, LCPC, Alica Forneret, Allison Gilbert, Lashanna Williams, Stephanie Gailing, Silvia Perez-Protto, M.D., Rana Adwish, M.D.
COVID-19 Burial, Cremation, and the Pandemic Funeral
From the COVIDPAPER.ORG, Paper Editors: Candi K. Cann, Ph.D, Michael Hebb, Megan Devine, LCPC, Alica Forneret, Allison Gilbert, Lashanna Williams, Stephanie Gailing, Silvia Perez-Protto, M.D., Rana Adwish, M.D.
Dying Alone: Tools for Keeping in Touch in an Era of Pandemic Dying
From the COVIDPAPER.ORG, Paper Editors: Candi K. Cann, Ph.D, Michael Hebb, Megan Devine, LCPC, Alica Forneret, Allison Gilbert, Lashanna Williams, Stephanie Gailing, Silvia Perez-Protto, M.D., Rana Adwish, M.D.
Michael Jordan And Mindfulness
While this is popular among athletes now, it wasn’t as widely known in the 1990s.
How to Leave Your Comfort Zone
If you lead a fortunate life, then there’s a high chance that you’re probably not very resilient when the going gets tough.
Preserve the Depth In Meditation
People, places, things, ideas, and experiences are all, at their core, made of the same source energy.
Make Stress Your Tool for Good
You'll experience stress as a way to spur you on to an accomplishment.
When Anxiety Arises, Try This
While it feels counterintuitive, embracing anxiety and turning toward it can be helpful.
How Compassion Improves Your Life
As I learn to be more compassionate with myself, I've noticed I seek out others all the time for assistance.
Loving-Kindness & My Mother-in-Law
It wasn't that she changed at all; I just saw her very differently, with the help of loving-kindness.
Retrain Kindness With Meditation
Our common humanity is that we all wish to contribute, and we are all made of love.
Handle Change When You Don’t Choose It
Not all change that chooses us is negative — but generally, it's hard to adapt when we don't see the change coming.
Mindful Insights In Meditation
The body constantly delivers signs and signals filled with insight and wisdom related to emotions.
Get Comfy To Meditate
I believe if the ancient yogis had sofas in their Himalayan caves, they would have meditated on them!
Presenting My Research to The Dalai Lama
'I will watch you, whether you are really helping to build a happy, peaceful world or not [...]'
How I Learned To Like Myself
I want my students to know that it's possible to experience an awakening, and it doesn't have to be this big, lofty thing.
Mindfulness as A Superpower
We can either mindlessly react or courageously respond, becoming the heroes in our own lives.
Meditation is More Than a To-Do
Meditation as a to-do item becomes rooted in a wrong view of our fundamental human nature, inherent goodness.
How Meditation Opened My Mind
I learned my current reality was one-dimensional and shaped by various habits and emotions.
Work Emptiness Led to Meditating
A coach suggested that I needed to connect my mind, body, and heart so I could feel more fulfilled at work.
Stop Meditating On Your Own
A group atmosphere or 1:1 coaching can help you move past emotional blocks to reap the rewards of meditation 24/7.
Mindfulness Belongs in Schools
The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.
How Meditating Connects My Path
You're not looking to other people to please you because you know what you want, and you can express it.
Meditation Made Me A Better Friend
That seems to be a fruit of my practice — not only do I like to be around me, but other people like to be around me now.
What Complements Meditation?
A meditation teacher suggests certain activities to bolster a mindful existence.
Mindfulness Got Me Off Autopilot
We train in befriending ourselves, including all our neuroses and complexities.
Better Decisions From Meditating
When I do find myself in the throws of powerful emotions like anger or self-doubt, I'm not crippled by it the way I used to be.
Weave Meditation Into Daily Living
Sometimes being mindless can help us arrive at deeper mindfulness — and a deeper mind.
Meditation Reveals More of What We Are
After some time, your whole life becomes meditation. Suddenly, you're alive in a life you mainly were distracted.
How to Let Go Of Old Stories
The ability to be comfortable in my skin and to show up for my life daily has allowed me to be more fulfilled.
Practice Kindness In Meditation
Human beings are capable of limitless kindness, if only they can tap into it.
A Daily Meditation 3-Part Practice
Our thoughts and feelings aren’t permanent, but learning this can take time.
A Deeper Practice Over Time
Start small; that was the biggest thing for me — if you can do something every day, you'll see the benefits of this practice.
Does Meditation Ever Get Easier?
As we get more experienced with meditation, it allows us to reap more of the benefits, outweighing the discomfort.
How I Get Ready to Meditate
The best preparation for meditation is cultivating joy, which leads to openness and receptivity.
Meditation Helps Me as an Artist
The benefit of steadiness created a Miriam that's not that affected by the shifts around me.
Why I Chose Open Awareness
Through open awareness meditation, one rests in the intrinsic nature of our minds.
I Hated Meditating Until It Worked
After 22 challenging years of life, I was desperate for some solution. And then, Tibetan Buddhism began to work.
Here’s How I Teach Compassion
If there's one thing I like to teach, it's compassion as our natural way of being.
Be More Playful With Meditation
A playful attitude keeps us going given the repetitive nature of meditation.
Why I Use a Variety of Meditation Styles
We all have different personalities, and our minds work in various ways.
My Life Changed From Meditation
Meditation became the investigation and the practice of expanding the capacity for choice.
Why Meditating Is Like Cleaning Home
We are effectively cleaning and clearing our internal houses, the subconscious mind.
Emotional Sobriety Through Meditation
Through meditation, wellness mentor Ceasar Barajas has learned to better life with grace, and is helping others.
How Meditation Became My Home
I remain profoundly human but suffer so much less now; the experience of liberation is real for me.
Why Vipassana is Right for Me
When I found myself at home caring for my young children, I realized in a painful way that I could not just 'be.'
4 Tips for New Meditators
At first, you'll likely have enthusiasm, but that can give way to discomfort. Stick with it, though, and you'll be richly rewarded.
Seeker to Mastery In 5 Steps
Experience does not become knowledge (nor does knowledge become wisdom) in one step, one flash, or one moment.
My Anxiety After I Found Meditation
I had PTSD from 9/11, and my anxiety was through the roof. I was desperate for a solution.
You Are Who You Hang Out With
Who do you spend the most time with? Who are the people you most admire? Are those two groups of people the same?
How Meditation Supported My Ph.D
It took a long time to recover my mental health after getting my degree, and meditation was the one thing that stayed.
I Found Meditation On the Ice Rink
While most of my friends hated figures, I fell in love with the quiet along with the sense of feeling focused.
An Effortless Meditation Style
It was like coming home, noticing that the safest, most peaceful, joyful, most loving place was inside of me.
Racing Mind? Try Meditation
Get used to being with yourself and fighting off the urge to stop because your mind is going to tell you it's not working.
Why Tibetan Buddhism Speaks to Me
Abandon this idea of a quick fix to one's problems — it's about patience and perseverance.
Build Resilience For Future Peace
We can build resilience and faith to ride the waves of our experience, with more peace and ease.
A Youthful Way to Approach Meditation
By harnessing the imagination, I could step that much deeper into my Self.
From Skeptic to Meditation Teacher
Cultivating a state of being that allows me to connect and feel deeply adds a richness to life.
This Blue Dot Helps Me Meditate
Every time I see the sticker, I stop and take one breath. It brings me back to this place of presence
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How a Chipped Nail Imparted Wisdom
My perfectly imperfect nails impart more wisdom than you might guess from their chipped appearance.
Concentration for a Mind at Peace
We tend to have a fixed and solid sense of self, which is not an accurate view and may also cause suffering in the long run.
Healthier Ways to Digest Emotions
Become aware of your internal communication system when someone enters your sacred space.
How to Mindfully Work from Home
If we allow ourselves the luxury of having a lie-in on workdays, we'll develop a bad habit.
Practice For Death
Occupy Death | Occupy Life: The Death Positive Movement
https://www.consciousdyinginstitute.com/inspiring-quotes/occupy-death-by-tarron-estes
For us new age boomers and spiritual seekers, this last transformational movement of Practicing for Death, is the crown jewel of how to be fully in our lives. To occupy death is to embody life. We must wake up out of whatever sleeping or waking dreams we have left, whatever dull, mind numbing trances we are still in, whatever false hope we might have that we will get out of this life without facing our own mortality and death.
Some wonder about why we should entertain such gloomy topics anyway, lest we find ourselves bogged down by this unnecessary heaviness. To them I would say that death awareness itches all the time, that it rumbles continually just under the surface, that our real choice is between letting it fester in our unconscious or leveraging it to experience feelings of meaning and deeper connection.
Kundalini Yoga For Trying Times
My meditation practice was a grounding force when I felt shaken awake by difficult life circumstances.
When Kids Daydream It’s Meditation
We do not have to teach our kids to meditate, especially if they are shy, passive and creative. They do this well on their own.
Power of Nature: A Child’s Poem
Watching my son learn how to take in the nourishment of nature as a way to accept his emotions has been beautiful.
A Buddhist’s View On Cause & Effect
We all get affected by other people’s actions. The cause of your bad fortune may not even be your fault.
Vibrational States & Life Decisions
It's from high vibrational state that clarity, opportunity, synchronicities and joy enter your life.
How Ants Taught Me About Generosity
The rewards flow back in many beautiful ways when you do things out of goodness and without condition.
10 Ways to Be Mindful at Work
These simple practices may help you release any work-related stress and remain focused, motivated, and inspired during your workday.
Drop Mindfulness Into Each Day
Focusing on the present can change your entire perspective.
Meditation Styles That Work For Me
After much trial and error, I reached my meditation sweet spot a combo of three styles that feel the most authentic to me.
How I Found Joy on a Mall Bench
The unbearable discomfort disappeared once I stopped wanting the pain away and just sat with an open mind.
Balance Emotions With 5 Elements
Knowing a bit about each element and its properties can support you in staying present and balanced in life.
Healing My Family Through Meditation
Once I realized that my thoughts didn’t always tell me the whole truth, I became suspicious of my negative emotions.
A Loving Practice to Drift to Sleep
Without being in my body, I couldn’t feel and connect with the energy of love.
What Meditation Did For My Sanity
Little by little, I started to feel like myself again — I could feel and see the shifts in my body, especially on my skin.
How To Protect Your Most Important Asset With Disability Insurance
Most people see life insurance as a no-brainer to protect against losing their income due to death, but few people consider protecting their human capital in the event they become sick or injured.
Yes, You Probably Need Life Insurance And Here's Why
Life insurance is not sexy. It’s not fun to talk about and it’s definitely not a process anyone enjoys. However, much like death and taxes, buying life insurance is an essential part of life and a crucial element of sound financial planning.
How Breathwork Gave Me My Voice
It's led me to feel much more heard, validated, and confident in my intuition.
My Life-Changing Gratitude Journal
I was searching for hope, for something to help with anxiety. Then, my life improved with a gratitude experiment.
The tale of two deaths. Aretha Franklin and John McCain
Over half of American adults don’t have a will, and many more have never talked to their loved ones about what they want done with their remains or what kind of funeral they want.
We should all be organ donors
Ninety-five percent of American adults support organ donation, but only fifty-four percent are actually signed up as donors.
Long-Term Care Insurance Explained
It might be hard to imagine now, but chances are you’ll need some help taking care of yourself later in life. The big question is: How will you pay for it?
By Barbara Marquand
Buying long-term care insurance is one way to prepare.
50 Ways to Leave Your… Body
Explore all of the new ways we can honor our loved ones!
Meditation to Heal Grief
The outer world had not changed, but my inner landscape was profoundly different, with the help of meditation.
Use Your Senses to Get Present
Like our senses help us tune to the external world, they help us tune into our inner world during meditation.
My COVID Story: Finding Gratitude
When feeling overwhelmed, being grateful interrupts that neural pathway and shifts your brain chemistry.
Mantra Meditation: How It Heals
The mystical language of Sanskrit was mostly designed for the creation and spiritual use of mantras.
Facing Injustice: Know Your ‘Why’
To be silent in the spiritual and wellness community where unity is the ultimate intention is a complete contradiction.
My Depression Led Me to Meditate
I learned it's important to cry or scream if you have to. It may not feel good in the moment, but emotions will come and go.
End of Life Leaders gather to create the COVID Paper
Leaders gather to create White Paper
More than 80 specialists from around the globe who deal daily with the issues of dying and grief have joined to develop new rituals and resources to honor those who die during the COVID-19 era and to aid the living as they grapple with the crisis.
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Train the Mind: Choose Your Mantra
Once you have understood the nature of your mind, choose the mantra to which you feel attached.
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3 Easy Breathing Exercises
Pranayama, or breath regulation, is one ancient yogic system geared toward either energizing or calming the mind.
The Benefits of Theta Brainwaves
Getting to a relaxed state that generates theta waves naturally happens, but what if you want to go there on purpose?
Death doulas provide support, comfort and a new option for the dying and their families
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How being a Death Doula changed my perspective on living
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This is what it's like to be a Death Doula
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Practice Grace to Forgive Enemies
What does it truly mean to forgive others, especially those we consider enemies?