We have been sold the idea that health is happiness. If you have health, you have everything.  The idea that “we” ought to be healthy is a recent invention. It co-evolves with the enclosure of the commons, the erosion of lifeways which share in the land as a partner for maintaining flourishing eco-social systems. Public [click to read more]

What if autoimmunity isn’t a medical mistake, but a meaningful response? A philosophical look at the “auto-anti-body” as a somatic expression of our dissonance with a sick system. [click to read more]

What is health, and how do we know if we’re working in harmony with it, or against its flourishing? [click to read more]

Your body is not a home improvement project. Healing is not an end goal but a process, and you have done nothing wrong by needing rest. [click to read more]

What if your body isn’t attacking itself, but defending you from a toxic world? [click to read more]

Octavia Butler put it most succinctly: God is Change. [click to read more]

Learn why the Sisyphean struggle to change often fails and how understanding your “burden” is the real key to lasting transformation. Consider why discipline and habit trackers fail to change you. [click to read more]

Projects In Review – Taking stock in late summer 2025. [click to read more]

Summer brings a certain buzz, a feeling of expansion that can easily tip into overwhelm. I felt it, looking at my list of projects: too many tabs open, both on my screen and in my mind. It became clear that this season required a reset. The goal: do less, but do it deeper. This transition, [click to read more]

What would it mean to trust yourself? Is it possible? What’s the implication of not trusting yourself? [click to read more]

Long-term illness is defined by its cycles. There’s always some event that sets the stage. A flu upsets the autoimmune balance. [click to read more]

I mention food in every conversation about remission. I have avoided writing about it so far because it’s easier to mention it offhand as ‘a thing that’s helped me’ than to attempt to do it justice. [click to read more]

How can I make this body a vessel for strength, vitality, and spirit? [click to read more]

“No [one] was ever born who could stop [their] body one moment from changing. ‘Body’ is the name of a series of changes. As in a river the masses of water are changing before you every moment, and new masses are coming yet taking similar form, so it is with this body.” Swami Vivekananda, Raja [click to read more]

(re)introducing the writing project [click to read more]

Walking down the street, it’s an early spring morning on Tiohtià:ke, the city of Montreal is quiet in its bustle. I’m charging, setting one foot in front of the other in a power walk that seems to indicate I am in, plainly, a hurry. A hurry to get where? The bakery. I’m walking as if [click to read more]

To return to the place is, simply, a challenge. I am shaken to thell year ha core. A full year has passed since I published my memoir (my memories, my visions). In that year, so much within me has changed. I am each day further from being the character in that book. The detailed inscriptions [click to read more]

Begin the new year with a prayer of questions—honest, searching, and full of longing. From Amritapuri, this reflection invites us to pause, reflect on what matters, and move forward with purpose and connection. [click to read more]

As I prepare for a new journey to Kerala, I reflect on life’s rhythms, change, and our collective responsibility to the earth. I invite you to read my poem She Seeks That. May we all embrace transformation and peace. [click to read more]

Written in May 2024 [click to read more]

Join Laure and guest Devlin Flynn as they explore the sacredness in the overlooked, from stones and rivers to the digital realm. This deep conversation weaves mysticism, grief, and presence, revealing profound connections between humanity and the world. L [click to read more]

Lalaina est né en France au cœur d’un foyer empli de musique et d’aventure, il a été élevé par une mère enseignante et musicienne pétrie d’humanisme. Elle lui lègue son amour de l’aventure, du mystère et de la transmission. [click to read more]

Dialogue with Shanthi Minor: How can we practice in a context that is not supportive to practice? How do we make a life of practice in a context that is, overall, quite hostile to it? How do we develop the momentum to keep going? [click to read more]

What’s the About About? It’s a matter of taking in the intake and digesting the digestions I can only do the doing if I’m up for not having had having to begin with I can only do the nothing if I’m not hoping for the something I can hope for nowhere or so [click to read more]

I’m not so interested in measuring my success. Many of the conversations I’ve gotten into in the past few months consist of a series of questions directed at my healing process. How did I get here? How long did it take? Did I really manage to get off all [click to read more]

I am changing. The process will never be complete, because it is not something with an end goal. I have befriended my body. I sing, and dance, and pray. [click to read more]

“The Arabian Sea is very vast. You are like a drop in that sea. You are part of it, and ultimately, like a rain drop hitting its surface, entirely inseparable from it.” [click to read more]

I have been in India for two months. I have been not reading anyone’s social media updates. I have been not working on the audiobook. I have been not doing any content marketing. I have been not working on my podcast project. Over the past two months in Kerala I have been re-examining fundamentally how it is [click to read more]

Why am I leaving for India?To educate the microbiome by exposure to the macrobiome. And what is that, but the ultimate journey?Let us go to the heartlandthe home of the Gita’s sacred science of God-Realization And learn therewhat is meant when statedBe Ye Therefore Perfect. The first flight, to Doha, Qatar, leaves Tiotiakhe at 9pm [click to read more]

224 pages of essay, prose and poetry. Available as a paperback, an ebook, and an audiobook. [click to read more]

I’ve had many conversations about my upcoming book in the past few weeks–and now feels like the right time to start speaking about it in longer form. The following audio is an account of my past few years, the process of writing the book, my road to remission, and where I’m at right now. I [click to read more]

The transience of the body itself is holy. [click to read more]

“Reversal, recurrence, are the movement, and yet the movement leads onwards” Lao Tze rendered by Ursula K. Leguin, Tao Te Ching ch. 28 In honour of all that isMay all life hold joyous evolutionMay the ancestors and descendants find peaceMay cellular healing continueMay love guide us each on our pathsMay serendipity, chance, and fortune smile [click to read more]

Reflecting on this moment of settling, and sharing about what got stirred up emotionally as a result of trying a herbal formula called Si Wu Tang. [click to read more]

Self-mastery and holistic health through the practice of Gongfu, Neigong, and Qi cultivation. Dive into the philosophy of “teaching what you don’t know” and embracing every attempt as a success in martial arts training. [click to read more]

Reflecting on a 6-week clinical practicum, merging Tuina techniques, Taiji principles, and Relational Focusing to guide myself towards holistic harmony. [click to read more]

In which I present The Responsive Body project, some personal history, and what I hope to achieve in writing publicly. This newsletter comes from a need for me to write in public. The project explores the relationships between my body (as more than flesh-and-bone) and its contexts. I am driven by an impulse to make [click to read more]