Letters from Bali

Who Is Myrah Peñaloza? The Story and Values Behind the Brand

Who is Myrah Peñaloza? The founder, Kundalini teacher, and slow-fashion designer whose Bali brand botanically hand-dyes linen and sustains around thirty artisan families.

From East LA to Bali: The Story Behind the Clothing

Before the linen. Before Bali. Before the artisan families and the botanical dyes and the thirty households that her brand now sustains. There was a girl from East Los Angeles who was always buildi...

The First Piece Is Coming Home

There is a gown that started all of this. Not the Rainbeau. Not the Nidra. Before any of those had names, there was the Kundalini. Myrah made it first. A wide-body silhouette with a deep V-neckli...

The Cup You Washed This Morning: On Long Weeks, Blue Moons, and the Rest That Restores

The practice is not to arrive at clean. The practice is to keep cleaning, with the same care, every single time. I genuinely don't know where to start with this week. The kids, the school, things ...

I Poured Tea for My Teacher This Week. A Letter on Ten Years of Practice, Lineage, and Coming Home with the Ceremony Inside Me

A letter from Mayra Penaloza on returning from two weeks in Taiwan with Global Tea Hut. Ten years of online practice. One morning of pouring tea for her teacher in person. And the integration that ...

What the Tea Sisters Taught Me: On Coming Home, Sacred Feminine Community, and the Art of Slow Living

A letter from a tea house in Taiwan on the last day before flying home to Bali. On finding a circle of women who know how to listen to nature, on slow living, and on the art of returning to yoursel...

the ramie botanical origami gown: dressed in the language of the earth

ramie is one of the oldest textile fibres on earth. this gown is not constructed the way conventional fashion is constructed — it is shaped. folded with intention, structured without being rigid, f...

The Most Radical Thing You Can Do This Week Is Bloom

I landed in Taiwan at 6am and the first thing I did was find an onsen. A warm tea bath at dawn. All of it quietly leaving through my skin. This week, the sky is asking one question: what are you no...

Unlock Your Potential: The Power of Kundalini and Entrepreneurship

Explore the transformative power of Kundalini Yoga and entrepreneurial strategies with the Portal to Bloom. Discover how to find freedom, clarity, and abundance in your life.

The Most Powerful Ceremonies I've Ever Been Part of Started With Getting Dressed

By Myrah Penaloza Something has been pressing at the edges of you this week. Not loudly. Just... persistently. That’s the Full Moon doing what Full Moons do. And I want to ask you something simp...