Tony Rianna

For years it’s been the same thing. Work hard. Go out. Drink. Repeat. That’s been the default version of “team culture” and to be honest, it’s not really doing much. People are still stressed, still tired, still not functioning properly. It just masks it for a few hours. Now things are starting to change. Companies are beginning to realise that if people are constantly burnt out, you don’t fix that with a night out. You fix it by actually helping them regulate themselves properly. That’s...

Why does a small plant make otherwise fearless people uncomfortable? After twenty years around cannabis, I’ve seen the same reaction across soldiers, executives, athletes and spiritual seekers. The fear often isn’t about the plant itself. It’s about what people might discover about themselves when they slow down enough to look.

Every year, Maha Shivaratri arrives quietly. No fireworks. No spectacle. Just a long night, a dark moon, and an invitation to sit with what remains when everything unnecessary falls away. In the ShaiviteShaivite tradition, Shiva is not a god in the sky. Shiva is consciousness at rest. Awareness before identity. Stillness beneath movement. Maha Shivaratri is said to be the night when that stillness is easiest to touch, not because something descends from above, but because the mind naturally...