The Orenna Journal is a yoga and wellbeing journal exploring yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest and the wider ideas that shape how yoga is understood and experienced.
Through considered writing, it offers space to look beyond the surface of practice and explore its traditions, contexts and contemporary interpretations with greater depth and curiosity.
The Orenna Journal brings together considered writing on yoga, philosophy, history, wellbeing and place. Articles move between tradition and contemporary understanding, exploring not only how practices are approached, but where they come from, how they have developed and how their meanings can differ across contexts.
Rather than offering quick answers, the Journal creates space for thoughtful enquiry, evidence-informed discussion and a more nuanced understanding of yoga and wellbeing.
Discover the Journal through four interconnected areas. Each offers a different way into the wider conversation around yoga, rest, wellbeing and the relationship between practice, evidence and place.
Explore yoga practices, philosophies, texts and traditions, from their historical contexts to the ways they are understood and practised today.
Consider restorative practice, meditation, stillness and the different ways attention and awareness are approached within yoga.
Find contemporary wellbeing through an evidence-informed lens, distinguishing emerging research from established knowledge and examining claims with appropriate context.
Writing shaped by landscape, seasonality and the quieter observations that connect practice with everyday experience.
Written & curated by Orenna Wellness
Thoughtful writing exploring yoga, philosophy, wellbeing, evidence and place.
Do crystals really work, and what does “work” actually mean? Explore crystal healing claims, scientific research, placebo and contextual effects, personal experience and the difference between finding a crystal meaningful and demonstrating a specific therapeutic effect.
Why is amethyst associated with the crown chakra and rose quartz with the heart? Explore how crystals and chakras became connected, how historical Indian subtle-body systems differ from the familiar rainbow model, and what “energy” means within traditional, modern spiritual and scientific contexts.
Why does rose quartz represent love while amethyst is associated with calm or spirituality? Explore familiar crystal meanings, where these associations come from, why different sources disagree and how historical symbolism differs from modern crystal culture.
Crystals and precious stones have fascinated people for thousands of years, but their meanings have never remained fixed. Explore the history of crystals through jewellery, amulets, medicine, religion, lapidary traditions, Western esotericism and the emergence of modern crystal culture.
Discover the latest articles from The Orenna Journal, with new writing across yoga practice, philosophy, history, rest, wellbeing, evidence and place.
