This month, we look at how to balance our feminine and masculine energies. ‘Women and men all have aspects of yin (the feminine) and yang (the masculine). We need both to work together to thrive – but, in our culture, we are encouraged to live from our yang, which manifests as being busy all the time and forever focused on the next thing to do,’ says coach Clare Russell, who worked with me last year, inspiring my column, ‘My slow year’, and this Dossier. Read more on page 62.
Rebalancing is a theme that echoes throughout the magazine. Eminé Kali Rushton writes about her sattva journey to find life’s sweet spot and become more ‘aligned, harmonised and well’ on page 90 – and she will share her wisdom in a new column, ‘This conscious life’, in the months ahead.
So much boils down to having more care and compassion for ourselves. Oliver Burkeman teaches us to stop comparing our inside with other people’s outside on page 60, and we initiate a more nurturing conversation with our bodies in Ali Ro_ ’s Mindful Health Club on page 96. Here’s to a balanced summer of kindness and love!