Letters from Bali

Defined and Undefined Centres in Human Design: What Is Fixed in You, and What You Are Absorbing

What defined and undefined centres mean in Human Design, all nine explained in plain language, the difference between undefined and fully open, and what two founders' own charts show about which ce...

Four Designs on a Napkin

The short answer is four designs on a napkin. The longer one starts seven years earlier, in a Canadian field, with a yoga and music festival that taught us everything we needed before there was any...

Exercise, Inverted: Hypothyroidism, Cortisol and the Week I Turned Upside Down

Part Three of the Thyroid Letters. The year I was most exhausted was the year I trained hardest. What I changed about intensity, rest and the order of the week, what the evidence actually supports,...

The Oil I Had to Learn to Use Less Of

My first year in Bali I oiled my hair the way I always had, and by November I had ruined it. What I learned about amount, timing and placement when the ritual you were taught was written for a drie...

The Second of Three Ones

18 September 2026 is a 1 day inside the only 1 month of a 1 year. There are three of them in the whole month and this is the middle one. A letter from Bali on beginning something small enough to su...

Life Speaks in a Low Voice: How to Listen for the Oracle in Everyday Life

A viper at the front door, a Mexican Independence Day table of fifteen children, and an oracle baking cookies in The Matrix. Seven everyday ways to hear the oracle that is already speaking to you.

Gene Keys Lines Explained: What the Number After the Dot Means in Your Profile

In a Gene Keys profile the number after the dot is the line. Here is where it comes from, why you have a whole column of them rather than two, and how the same line reads differently in each sphere.

The Colour That Followed Me to Bed: The Yin Yang Linen Pillowcase and Its Sister Colourways

The Bali Linen Pillowcase in Yin Yang, Rainbeau, Uluwatu Sunset and Golden Sunset, botanical-dyed in Bali. What each colourway feels like in a room, and which of our linen sets it belongs beside.

Gene Keys vs Astrology: Same Birth Data, Two Completely Different Readings

Astrology and the Gene Keys are calculated from the same birth date, time and place. Here is what each one does with that moment, read through our own two charts.

The Seam That Gave Way

A seam on my oldest linen shirt opened last week. Why good clothing is built to open at the thread, how to close it yourself in ten minutes, and what the repair actually changes.