Letters from Bali

How to Build a Slow Fashion Travel Wardrobe with Just 3 Linen Pieces

Three pieces of French linen can carry you through six months of travel. Not because you are packing light for convenience, but because when each piece is made with intention, nothing is wasted, an...

What Botanical Dyeing Actually Is (And Why It Changes How You Think About Clothes)

Botanical dyeing is not a trend. It is one of the oldest human practices, and the reason it has been revived in slow fashion circles is because once you understand what it actually involves, it cha...

Slow Fashion in Bali: How and Why We Make What We Make

Sustainable fashion is a phrase that has been used so much it has started to mean almost nothing. Brands use it to describe recycled polyester. Retailers use it to describe a line that is slightly ...

What to Wear in Bali: The Linen Wardrobe We Keep Coming Back To

Bali teaches you to simplify. Not because simplicity is fashionable here, though it is. Because the climate makes complexity impractical, and the pace of the island makes it pointless. What you rea...

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...