Food As Love

Cooking is a sensory gift, a chance to get out of your head & make something with love. Around the world some of our favorite chefs are offering up their recipes along with all sorts of tips & tricks to help you create simple, nutritious & delicious food at home. 

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Emily L'Ami
Things To Move You

Anxiety & stress manifest physically in the form of sore muscles, tightness & pain. And the longer we hold them in our body the more they wear on our immune system. Now more than ever we need to move & release.

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Emily L'Ami
To Help You Breathe

These are difficult times. Simply taking a few full deep breaths is one of the best things you can do to calm your nervous system right now. Meditation & breathwork are vital practices to guide us back to our breath & ourselves. 

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Emily L'Ami
Your Second Family

There’s the family you’re born into and the family you create. Your close friends, your second family, have been shown to play a greater role in the length & quality of your life.

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Emily L'Ami
Friendship is the New Self-Care

If you want to feel calmer, healthier & happier look no further than the miracle cure-all of friendship. Time & again studies show that spending time with friends one of the most important forms of self-care you can practice.

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Emily L'Ami
Sustainable Scent

Scent's invisibility means we often don't think about its role in environmental sustainability. But given we use fragranced products around 20 to 30 times a day it's helpful to understand the basics of the life-cycle of scent.

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Emily L'Ami
A Poem for Our Times

Poems are mini force-fields, the concentrated energy of words refined to their very essence. This poem is a reminder of the beauty & mystery of life, a balm to return to over & over.

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Emily L'Ami
Nature Worship

The first religion was the religion of nature. Indigenous cultures from the New Zealand Maori to the Native American Indian recognize & worship the spirit in all things, a practice known as animism.

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Emily L'Ami
The Big Unwind - 2019

It's time to relax, reflect & reconnect, but how? In our second-annual installment of The Big Unwind, we bring you a few of our favorite things to read, listen to, watch & eat, to help you ease into the holidays & inspire your new year ahead

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Emily L'Ami
The Beauty Pattern

All of us, no matter what age or culture, share a sense of physical beauty. That's because the human perception of what makes something beautiful is hardwired.

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The Meaning of Home

A place, a feeling, your own body & mind - what is home to you? The question 'what makes a home?' has been a constant theme for us this year. Here's a look at a few families forging their own ideas of home in the hope of a life well lived.

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Emily L'Ami
Welcome to the new Bodha

A year ago we started imagining how we could better bring to life the 'come back to yourself' feeling. And today, after five years in business, we'd like to welcome to you to the result, our new Bodha look.

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Emily L'Ami
The Incense Island

Incense is the original & most ancient form of perfume. It’s also where Bodha began & this week we return to Japan's 'incense island' to meet with generations of makers.

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Emily L'Ami