New York (RNS) — A holistic wellness retreat in a glass-sided building overlooking the East River began on a recent Saturday with hot tea, an opening keynote and a meditation. After brunch came an afternoon of workshops with themes such as “eat your way to calm,” “somatic healing” and “intuitive artmaking.”
All was about what you’d expect, except that instead of concluding the opening meditation with “Namaste,” the...
