In Spirit: an interview with Stéphane Desmeules, nature and bodyscape photographer
I met Stéphane in 2015… This month, I wanted to introduce him to you. A few words, a few pictures. A humble presentation of an…
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In spirit: My Kind of Flowers! An Interview With Floramama
Columnist Mariette Raina interviews Chloé Roy of organic intensive flower farm Floramama.
In Spirit: How can I be in the present moment during my yoga practice?
… Therefore, when you abide in that sensibility, there cannot be an expectation for the next posture, since your yoga session is no longer a…
In Spirit: The Importance of the Gaze in Yoga
Contributor Mariette Raina shares her notes from June, about gaze in yoga.
In Spirit: When bread and poetry meet
St Germain en Laye, a small town in the suburbs of Paris where the old houses, the cobbled street and the castle remind us that…
In spirit: Our grandmothers, this mine of wisdom
We are full of hope because our youth represent this change, the construction of a new world, and it is thanks to them that our…
In Spirit: To radiate the inner being into the world
Tantric Shaivite words alongside Christian words resonate with the same truth, the same inner experience. Culture forms the words, the codes of language. But the…
In Spirit: The Voice of the Roots, interview with Soleil Launière
Pour parler de leur provenance, les Innus se réfèrent aux points d’eau. Soleil est originaire de Mashteuiatsh sur les rives du lac Saint-Jean — Pekuakami….
In Spirit: 2020 Recap!
This year, we took the opportunity to reflect on the human state: woman, child, the body and God. We raised questions of some life experiences,…
In Spirit: The Body in Art
Photography, “nude and living drawing”: its history, its practice, its art.
In Spirit: Woman and God
Women personify the verticality between earth and sky, in all the aspects that it entails.
In Spirit: Self-portrait Through India
Photography can be presented as a mise en abyme of the inner quest and the process of introspection.
In Spirit: Anxiety and Insecurity During a Pandemic: Discussion with Nathalie Delay
What advice is there for people who are anxious? Anxiety is not a problem to be solved, but a profound message to listen to. It…
In Spirit: 4 Pillars
One thing that this pandemic is making us reassess is our relationship to the environment. The external environment but also our internal environment, one and…
In Spirit: About Tradition, discussion with Éric Baret
The only real tradition is metaphysical intuition. It is at the heart of humanity, so it is not dependent on a time.
In Spirit: Letter to My Child
Before I was pregnant, I thought that maybe, that would happen to me too, but not now, because I still had too many travelling to…
In Spirit: Lalla the Yogini
Lalla, Lal Ded in Hindi, Lal Arifa for Muslims, or Lalleshwari in Sanskrit, are all names to represent the different faces of this 14th century’s…
In Spirit: About Physical Pain
There is the pain that saves, the one that provides from hurting oneself. And the other pain, the one that is caused by reacting against…
In spirit: The right moment to practice yoga?
We often wait for the “right moment” to practise yoga. We come back from a yoga workshop, we promise ourselves that we will practise every…
In Spirit: Life, death and the body
The in-between always carries a sensation of mystery, like a suspension between two thoughts, where nothing can cling. No knowledge, no certainty, the simple rightness…
In Spirit: What Fighting Teaches Us
Cela fait quelques années je pratique les arts-martiaux, explorant divers styles au gré des déménagements, des voyages et des rencontres. L’été dernier j’ai eu la…
In Spirit : The philosopher sculptor
To spend time with a sculptor such as my grandfather, is to learn to look at the world. A ray of sunshine falling on a…
In Spirit: Photography and Metaphysics, Reflection of the Self
Si elle peut représenter le pire de notre société, elle peut tout autant en refléter les plus hautes sphères des qualités et des valeurs humaines,…
In Spirit: Living Space
Do you look at the space in which you live? Do you stop sometimes during the day to observe the movement of the sun and…
In Spirit: Kamakhya, Terrifying Feminity
Kāmākhyā, the city of the goddess. Red is everywhere, whether it is the rituals, puja, or the fabrics whose priests, pujari, are wearing in temples….
In Spirit: Temporal Sphere
“Everyone lives many parallel lives. We can, therefore, make of every man several discontinuous and contradictory portraits; we must not try to amalgamate them “.
In Spirit: The Dream Space
In many mystical traditions, whether Sufi, Tantric or Christian, mention is made of the importance of dreams. The usual and mundane dreams are usually residues…
In Spirit: Reverence
We have to learn to learn. We have to learn to explore. We must learn to navigate the unknown, to walk for no other purpose…
In Spirit: Desire, love and seduction
Because what I wanted deeply was of another nature and did not hide in the individual, or the car, or the house, or the career…
In Spirit: About the Spiritual Experience
Some contemporary scholars who work on the body and spirituality note that in the modern era, “spiritual experiences” carry social issues in which the individual…
In Spirit: Trika, Kaula and the Agamic Self
The question of the “self” in Kashmiri doctrine is at the heart of teaching. “Who am I really? Is the burning question that has inspired…
In Spirit : Yoga, Tantra and Non-Duality
Exactly ten years ago, I encountered the tradition that would become the heart of my life: the non-dual Tantric Shaivism of Kashmir. I was twenty,…
In Spirit: Science and Spirituality
During my anthropological university studies, where I specialized in the study of “new religions”, the research group of which I was a part observed a…
In Spirit: Hijras, Divine Hermaphrodites
Hijras are generally referred to as the third sex, Tritîyâ Prakriti, which is neither male nor female. Hijras derives from the Arabic root “hjr” which…
In Spirit: Dev Bhoomi, the Land of the Gods
I decided to start my journey in Kullu in Himachal Pradesh, a village at the foot of the Himalayas which is part of the “Valley…
In Spirit: The Endless Travel of Emotions
We forget that we are emotional beings, because over time our emotions have left their state of organic and free movement to crystallized into patterns…
In Spirit: Damian Siqueiros, Songs of the Inner Chamber
Damian Siqueiros is in South Korea to work with dancers. The theme: exploring the notion of gender in this Asian culture.
In Spirit: Ritual Interno
O que significa o ritual para além da sua limitação religiosa?
In Spirit: Essence of Ritual
Part 2 of In Spirit’s exploration of ritual asks: What does the ritual mean beyond its religious constraint?
As cores do ritual na Índia
O ritual como se manifesta na Índia, já é um tema rico por sua natureza cultural, mas também e sobretudo, pelo seu significado interior e…
In Spirit: Ritual
With this trip, it was the rituals that I have came to know, at each detour it was in my path.
In Spirit: A Letter From India
Dear Never Apart, Here I am again on Indian soil. Once the Indian earth has penetrated your inner-being it becomes a haunting fragrant perfume, enigmatically…
In Spirit: Magical Streets
Be it by way of tuktuk, autorickshaw, bicycle or simply walking, you will come to know India through its streets. You will witness Life: youth…
In Spirit: Tantric Temples
Orissa is the land of Chamunda, one of the highest Tantric goddesses. On the walls of the temples one can find many Tantric iconographic details…
In Spirit: Akhara Pulse
The Akhara is a space designated for Indian wrestling, a large and open yet protected area with a water well, trees, and clean ground.
In Spirit: Inner Journey
In your first journey to India you don’t understand what is really happening. You take what comes; all is so different from what you know…
In Spirit: Art of Seeing
I enter a space that I know. My view is veiled by habits that made me take for granted the space, a place that I…
In Spirit: Yoga
Yoga has many different definitions not only since it took a modern twist, but also throughout history and geography.
In Spirit: Mantras
In India, what takes us by surprise, are the encounters. There are some encounters of the heart that are not explainable.
In Spirit: Manikarnika Ghat
Families come from all over India because Varanasi (Vārānasī) is Shiva’s city, and Maṇikarṇikā is considered to be the most important hallowed cremation ground of…