wellness culture
The World According to GOOP + Rina Raphael
By Roxanne Stone — February 29, 2024
Katelyn and Roxy are joined by Rina Raphael for a look at the ever-expanding wellness industry and the vice grip it has on weary women.
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.
Beyond smudging: Indigenous creators reclaim their influence on the wellness industry
By Kathryn Post — November 8, 2022
(RNS) — ‘There are people harvesting plants that Indigenous people have been protecting and fighting for for so long,’ said one Indigenous business owner.
Psychedelic salon looks to the possibility of sacred healing
By Kathryn Post — August 29, 2022
(RNS) — Against a backdrop of incense and multicolored lights, speakers shared how their lives had been transformed by plant medicine.
At LA’s DisclosureFest, a milieu of New Age mysticism, capitalism and conspiracy talk
By Sam Kestenbaum — June 23, 2022
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The annual event is equal parts musical carnival, mystic be-in and merchandise swap meet.
The danger of finding our meaning at work
By Kathryn Post — June 8, 2022
(RNS) — In extreme cases, work isn’t just rewarding: It’s religion.
There is much more to mindfulness than the popular media hype
By Pierce Salguero — February 1, 2022
(The Conversation) — A scholar studying the relationship of Buddhism and medicine explains how the popular media has misrepresented mindfulness.
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.
The sin and self-care of Peloton
By Tara Isabella Burton — December 9, 2019
(RNS) — Peloton isn’t to blame if our culture is obsessed with self-improvement or for the quasi-eroticization of ‘decadent’ self-care. It's just riding alongside.
I’ll cry if I want to: Positive thinking, prosperity gospel and the vulnerability of faith
By Tara Isabella Burton — August 16, 2019
(RNS) — To be vulnerable, to be too much, feels like a failure in today's wellness culture. But we cannot positive-think our way out of the human condition.
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