SoulCycle

Making sweat feel spiritual didn’t start with SoulCycle – a religion scholar explains

By Cody Musselman — January 9, 2023
(The Conversation) — Fitness and religion make a potent combination, one people have explored for centuries.

SoulCycle’s Peoplehood offers a gig-economy cure for loneliness

By Tara Isabella Burton — June 4, 2022
(RNS) — Intimate connection for urban dwellers may be the modern answer to pandemic loneliness.

Why CrossFit’s founder got crossed up by Floyd protests

By Tara Isabella Burton — June 16, 2020
(RNS) — Instead of capitalizing on the unrest, Greg Glassman espoused the values of the wellness movement's masculine wing, where Horatio Alger does pull-ups with his bootstraps.

Can the wellness industry survive this sickness?

By Tara Isabella Burton — April 24, 2020
(RNS) — For those privileged enough to minimize their exposure to COVID-19, wellness culture transforms the current crisis into something meaningful, even positive.

Gwyneth Paltrow trolls the wellness industry

By Tara Isabella Burton — January 17, 2020
(RNS) — Unlike other companies that commodify our spiritual yearnings, Goop exists apart from the question of whether anyone has ever actually bought any of its products.

SoulCycle, capitalism and the selling of self-care

By Tara Isabella Burton — February 21, 2019
(RNS) — At the heart of the SoulCycle faith is a value system of capitalist consumerism, which it imbues, through sweat, with a metaphysical significance.

Why we should stop using the term religious ‘nones’

By Tara Isabella Burton — December 13, 2018
(RNS) — Most of America's religiously unaffiliated millennials are not so much religious 'nones' as they are religious 'manys.'
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