Befriending the body

Befriending the body

Befriending the Body For a long time, I couldn’t understand what it meant to get comfortable in this physical body. I think many of us can’t. Especially those of us drawn to spiritual work, to healing, to the unseen. Getting comfortable here — in the body,...
The Kasturi Mrig

The Kasturi Mrig

There is an old story I keep returning to. The Kasturi Mrig — the musk deer — carries within its own body a gland that produces one of the most exquisite fragrances — musk. Rare, intoxicating, unlike anything else. And it spends its entire life running everywhere to...
The Mind as Devil’s Advocate

The Mind as Devil’s Advocate

  Of all the tools we came with, the mind is the loudest. It is also the most misunderstood. We spend so much energy fighting it. Trying to silence it, override it, outrun it. We sit in meditation, hoping it will finally go quiet. We make decisions and then spend...

Parul Gupta, Bangalore

Hey Swati, I am so glad first of all I found you the way I did. I believe universe makes things happen & brings people together for a purpose. And for me meeting you was like that. I have had so many questions in my life, why the things are a certain way. And I...