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FROM THE EDITOR

FREEDOM IS NATIVE TO AMERICA

Spirituality & Health Magazine

Featured Artists • In the spirit of community and the new year, we are featuring seven previously featured artists from the past five years in this issue. We asked them: Looking back over your career as an artist, can you identify a major shift in your creative path, or has your path been fairly constant? What inspires you most right now?

WHAT IS “THE TALK” THAT JEWS HAVE WITH THEIR KIDS?

A PLAYFUL PRACTICE FOR THE NEW YEAR

CONNECTIONS

AWAKEN TO SPIRITUAL BRAVERY • MYRA GOODMAN reached out to Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist TRUDY GOODMAN for insights to foster inner strength, clarity, and resilience.

HOW EVE CREATED ADAM • Evolutionary neuroscientist PEGGY LA CERRA explains the natural primacy of women—and why their taste in men could use some refinement …

WHY JUST HOWL AT JANUARY’S FULL WOLF MOON • Staff writer JULIE PETERS’ new book suggests that January intentions to lose weight and exercise likely came from Colonial Protestants who valued a strong work ethic, religious consistency, and restraint—but didn’t know much about physiology.

A JANUARY SPELL JAR RITUAL

ON COACHING AND CARING • Professor and crew coach JENNIE KIESLING explores her surprise at contributing to a “toxic climate” on the Army Women’s Crew.

Discover your power, passion and purpose

As If

25TH ANNIVERSARY retreat guıde • CREATE THE HEALING POWER OF PLACE

CELEBRATE SYNERGY!

SYNERGY GUIDES To Creating Exotic Retreats

BECOME A Connoisseur of Hot Springs • Warm, hot, cold; hot, cold, hot, cold, hydrate, eat, nap. Repeat! Healing doesn’t get any better than Pagosa’s Mother Spring—and the timeless result is peace.

NO, SERIOUSLY. WHAT’S SO FUNNY?

theArt of Being Energy

THE FIVE AGREEMENTS

WE ALL KNOW LOSS …

BE BEAUTIFUL, BE YOURSELF • Our beauty lies in the heart of everything we do. There isn’t a moment in the day that our beautiful perfection isn’t shining through to others, in the work we do, or in every conversation we have—even at times when it might feel like we’re unrecognized. The late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh explained it simply: We just need to be ourselves. To be beautiful, we need only appreciate our gifts, our talents, our specialness happening right now in the next miraculous moment.

REVIEWS • books // music // film

REVIEWS // film

REVIEWS // music

REMEMBERING LOVE

BEER IS CHEAP! SEX IS FREE! WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CLASS OF ’73?

EXPLORING ZOOMUSICOLOGY WITH CATS

ONE MORE THING • Nothing changes if nothing changes