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E DITOR ’ S L E TT E R BREATHE IN YOUR NATURE
Most people I ask don’t know about the benefits of nose breathing. So I asked James Nestor, author of the bestselling book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, about this lost art of healing. When you go back to the beginning of human existence, the ancients recorded breath and nose breathing as a healing modality. It’s like the solution was given from the get-go, and yet we strayed far from this gift we were given. He explained to me that we are so divorced from nature, congested from air pollution, and we’ve adopted a diet that doesn’t allow for proper chewing, so the basic airway help has been disrupted. The disruption of our nitric oxide intake—breathing through your nose is the primary way your body utilizes inhaled nitric oxide— by bypassing the nose by mouth breathing means you miss out on these automated biological advantages. We need nitric oxide for cardiovascular health, athletic performance, and sexual and general health. These are all things that industrialization has compromised.
Then, something our cover star Annabelle Wallis said to me, “You attract what you feel inside,” sent me down a rabbit hole that circles right back to nasal breathing. This concept suggests that your dominant emotional state acts as a magnet, drawing matching circumstances, people and events into your life. For example, If you feel wealthy and abundant inside, you will attract financial opportunities. If you feel desperate or victimized, you will attract more situations that make you feel that way. While psychologists generally reject the idea that your feelings physically bend the laws of physics to move external objects or events, they do agree that feeling something deeply inside completely changes your perception and behavior, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Scientifically speaking, the reticular activating system (RAS), a network of neurons in your brain stem, acts as a filter. If you feel grateful and positive, your RAS actively looks for evidence of good things in your environment,
making you notice opportunities you would have otherwise missed. When you feel confident and open, your body language, tone of voice and micro-expressions change. People respond to you more favorably, making it look like you “attracted” them, when you actually just invited them in through your behavior. If you feel miserable, your brain naturally highlights every minor inconvenience (like a red light or a spilled coffee) as proof that the world is against you, ignoring the good things.
If you perceive and react based on what you feel, how can one perceive and react better to the world to get the most positive outcome? You must train your brain to bridge the gap between an automatic feeling and your chosen responses. In psychology, this is known as cognitive reframing and emotional regulation. In order to rewire your perception and behavior to achieve the best positive outcomes, you must master “the gap,” or “pause before reacting.” We know this. Your brain naturally reacts to external events in milliseconds based on your current mood. To get a better outcome, you must interrupt this automation. So, when a negative event happens, count to three or take one deep nasal breath. This brief pause shifts your brain activity from the emotional center (amygdala) to the thinking center (prefrontal cortex).
Consider this blueprint for life: Cultivate a low baseline stress level and protect your physical baseline. Find the joy in your nature. Breathe it all in…through your nose. Check out the father of mindfulness, David Nichtern, and his story in this issue, “Mind Over Karma,” for a deeper perspective on reframing your narrative.
Taking a moment to savor the ocean air
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIANA FRANK
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
70 A FORCE TO BEHOLD
Actress Annabelle Wallis speaks with Purist about portraying powerful women onscreen, from Peaky Blinders to the forthcoming Unabomber and Mutiny, while embracing motherhood, mindfulness and the healing power of presence.
76 THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIGHT AND LOSS
Artist Ross Bleckner reflects on love, loss and the paintings that hold both in his upcoming Guild Hall exhibition, Never The Less
82 KEEPING TIME
Red Hot Chili Peppers
drummer Chad Smith taps into a new kind of rhythm, inspiring the next generation through music.
86 UNSUNG GUITAR HERO
Josh Klinghoffer reflects on music as meditation, creative inspiration and life beyond some of rock’s biggest bands.
88 HAMPTONS WELLNESS WARRIORS
Your guide to Puristapproved local leaders in Eastern and Western care
Annabelle Wallis
A.-L. Breguet redefined the art of horology with his inventions. His pursuit of perfection continues to inspire those shaping the future. To celebrate this legacy, Breguet introduces the new Reine de Naples 9935, paying tribute to the first wristwatch. One invention at a time
MINDFUL
22 MIND OVER KARMA
David Nichtern on how unconscious habits shape our lives, and how to take control
24 PATH TO WELLNESS
A holistic nonprofit that gets to the root of chronic childhood illness
HEALTH
28 DEEP-SEA NUTRITION
A new clean, kid-friendly electrolyte gel delivers a hydration boost.
30 AN UNLIKELY HEALTH ELIXIR
Wellness editor Amely Greeven explores the curious world of urine therapy.
32 ASK THE DR. Dr. Jonathan B. Levine shares why your mouth is the gateway to lifelong health and longevity.
34 THE ULTIMATE 180
A data-backed method to regulate your nervous system and beat burnout SPACE
36 DAYDREAMS
Inside James Salomon’s new book chronicling the daydreams of artists who have shaped the LongHouse Reserve community
38 SPARKLING ROOMS
Refresh your home with Sacred Spaces Kollectiv’s energy cleansing rituals.
40 PURE PROPERTY
Not-to-be-missed Hamptons, NYC and Aspen homes on the market
Allec Gomes
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas gets a sporty upgrade.
Ross Bleckner, “Untitled,” 1994
Melissa Sings Barbra” arrives at Bay Street Theater this August.
56 EDITOR’S PICKS
Cristina Cuomo’ s clean summer favorites
Immerse in nature at Canyon Ranch Lenox’s serene Mystic and Aura tents.
50 TOP RESORTS AND RETREATS
Purist ’s guide to the best retreats across the globe
WEEKEND
54 THE WAY SHE IS
Melissa Errico’ s acclaimed concert “The Streisand Effect:
VIBRANT
58 THE NEW GRACEFUL AGING Dr. Stacie Stephenson’s over-40 guide to refreshing your fitness routine
FOOD IS MEDICINE
64 IN THE PINK
Soak up watermelon’s surprising health benefits with this simple, nutrient-packed summer recipe.
66 THE MIRACLE PANCAKE
A delicious new gluten-free, grain-free breakfast staple from Luv & Yum
PLAY
100 GRAND SLAM LONGEVITY
Just in time for the US Open: Embrace the wellness benefits of tennis that keep both your body and mind in play.
102 AT A GLANCE
Purist-approved Hamptons events to add to your calendar
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CONTRI BUTORS
RAY ROGERS, who wrote about Ross Bleckner (page 76) WHAT SURPRISED YOU MOST ABOUT BLECKNER?
The sheer volume of his creative output at 77. He’s still pushing for new ways of expression in his paintings— one of them, “Jesse in His Speedo,” inspired by his 30-year-old boyfriend. No wonder his “inner age is 28,” as he told me. It was his vulnerability, though, that stayed with me the longest.
Purist’s executive editor since its inception, Ray Rogers top-edits the magazine and helps shape its editorial direction. A former longtime editor at Interview, he went on to editor-in-chief roles at BlackBook and Billboard’s special consumer editions. His writing has also appeared in Afar, Avenue, InStyle, The New Yorker, Out and Rolling Stone.
DAVID NICHTERN, who shared his mindful insights (page 22). HOW CAN WE CULTIVATE MORE EASE THIS SUMMER?
Contemplate impermanence and appreciate what we have. Mixing clarity, stillness and creative activity—leave some space.
David Nichtern (founder & CEO Dharma Moon/cofounder and CCO Strawberry Moons Media) is a senior Buddhist teacher who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 40 years. Join Nichtern for meditation workshops on August 18 and September 15, as well as his online Fall Meditation Teacher Training from October 9-January 17. dharmamoon.com
JENNY LANDEY, who interviewed Chad Smith (page 82) and Josh Klinghoffer (page 86).
WHAT DRAWS YOU TO ROCK ARTISTS?
Authenticity and individuality. They challenge convention, tell honest stories and create music that reflects who they truly are. There’s a timeless confidence and creative freedom in rock that inspires me.
Jenny Landey is a dual specialist in luxury real estate and location scouting, serving as both a real estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty and a location agent based in East Hampton.
MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS, who photographed Chad Smith (page 82)
WHAT MAKES PHOTOGRAPHING MUSICIANS SO UNIQUE?
I’m a devout music lover of all genres, so any opportunity to work with musicians, songwriters, tour managers, roadies, sound engineers or anyone involved in making music is such an honor. I love shooting live music as much as an intimate portrait—to see the explosion of talent live onstage and then sit for a portrait is always such a gift.
Living between the East Village and East Hampton, Mary Ellen Matthews has been the photographer for Saturday Night Live for nearly 30 years and recently released her New York Times bestseller, The Art of the SNL Portrait She can often be spotted with her pup, Mouse, and/or a lobster.
CHRIS MOHR, who highlights the longevity benefits of tennis (page 100).
WHAT DOES TENNIS DO FOR YOU PERSONALLY, ON BOTH A PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL LEVEL?
Tennis gives me a place to let go of everything else, be physically active and be present, one shot at a time.
Chris Mohr, Ph.D., R.D., is coowner of Mohr Results Inc., where he and his wife, Dr. Kara Mohr (a behavior-change expert), help companies and individuals build healthier habits that actually stick. He has consulted with companies like Under Armour, Marriott, Deloitte and numerous others, written books, consulted on bestsellers, and built a career on making nutrition science digestible instead of overwhelming. Whether he’s supporting Fortune 500 execs or breaking down the latest study for a magazine reader, Mohr is one of the most trusted voices in the nutrition space.
Clockwise from top left: Joey Cocciardi, Oz Rodriquez, Tabitha
Booth Photography, Mary Ellen Matthews,
Caitlin
Strom
M INDFUL
The ocean is a natural prescription for wellness. Research on “blue spaces” (environments near water) shows that time spent by the sea is linked to improved mood, reduced stress and greater feelings of calm. One international study with more than 16,000 people across 18 countries found that visits to coastal spaces were associated with better mental health and overall well-being.
MIND OVER KARMA
David Nichtern on the mental loops that shape our reality—and how to finally step off the wheel.
Mindfulness-based practices like meditation can help us become more aware of our thoughts and impulses.
Karma, at its root, simply means action. It’s the mechanism that shapes our world, our reality, and how it changes over time. The real force behind karma isn’t some cosmic judge. It’s the mind itself—our habitual thoughts, perspectives and impulses that drive behavior and sculpt experience.
Karma explains how we became who we were, how we are who we are today, and who we’ll be tomorrow. The process runs mostly beneath awareness. Our habits are formed by past experiences, and those same habits then steer our present actions, landing us in the same situations again and again. This repetitive loop of familiar mental and emotional patterns is what’s known as samsara.
Imagine tropical fish swimming laps in an aquarium. As they glide through the water, they sometimes leave a thin trail behind them. Once they complete a full circle, that trail floats directly in front of them. The fish seems startled, as if wondering, “Where did that come from?” In this metaphor, we’re the fish, the tank is samsara, and the long thin trail is simply the consequence of our own habits looping back around.
Without fresh awareness to interrupt the cycle, these karmic patterns keep spinning. The Buddha’s core insight was that largely unconscious forces are running our lives, repeatedly placing us in familiar circumstances. This is why samsara is traditionally depicted as a wheel that never stops turning—until we see clearly what keeps it moving in the same predictable patterns.
The wheel keeps spinning because we keep thinking the
same thoughts, feeling the same emotions and reacting in the same ways. The only way to change its direction is to recognize what’s driving the entire mechanism. Until that moment, we’re like the fish, puzzled why the same residue keeps appearing in front of us, never quite realizing we’re the ones creating it
This recognition finally opens the door to real transformation. Through meditation, we bring awareness to our thoughts and impulses, interrupting the autopilot of karma. Each moment of presence introduces a fresh choice—an opportunity to respond consciously rather than react out of habit. Over time, these small shifts accumulate, gradually reshaping our inner world and the circumstances we encounter.
In this reimagining, the Wheel of Life becomes more than a map of suffering. It becomes a practical guide for liberation, reminding us that while repetition feels inevitable, the cycle is not unbreakable.
Awakening from the daydream means stepping back, seeing our patterns clearly and choosing a new direction. In doing so, we move from passive participants in samsara to conscious creators of a more awake and compassionate reality.
Adapted from Nichtern’s book Awakening From the Daydream: Reimagining the Buddha’s Wheel of Life. He periodically teaches live classes at Mandala Yoga in Amagansett. mandalayoga.com, dharmamoon.com
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Dhalluin
The nonprofit shares healing solutions for children’s chronic health and developmental conditions.
PATH TO WELLNESS ATH
Author, educator and Documenting Hope founder Beth Lambert speaks with Purist about root causes.
BY JENNA LEBOVITS
PURIST: You created Documenting Hope as a way to rethink how we understand and care for children with chronic health conditions. Was there a moment that made you realize a different approach was needed?
BETH LAMBERT: My oldest child had some symptoms that didn’t fit into a diagnostic box: some sensory, GI and skin. I didn’t feel like the conventional medical model offered anything in terms of understanding root causes or being able to address them.
I ended up knocking on the door of an integrative physician, and talked to naturopaths. That’s where I learned that all of these symptoms have root causes. Within a short period, we were able to turn them around, and it wasn’t rocket science. It was about nutrition and changing things in our daily life. I started Documenting Hope as a way to build that bridge between what conventional medicine offers and what’s actually possible for kids.
How has the mission evolved since those early days? I started by raising awareness on the epidemic of chronic health conditions. As I got deeper into learning what was happening to our children, the mission became about providing resources for parents. Then, we gathered all that data and brought it to the medical community.
By data, you’re referring to your CHIRP and FLIGHT studies?
Yes—the CHIRP (Child Health Inventory for Resilience and Prevention) study is the largest children’s environmental health survey I know of. The FLIGHT (Facilitated Longitudinal Investigation of Genuine Health Transformation) – Autism Study asks: What happens if you take a child with a diagnosis and remove those environmental factors and support their health in a holistic way? Do they lose their diagnosis? Do their symptoms go away?
Where does the research stand today?
We launched the CHIRP study in 2018 and are still in the process of collecting data. One of the preliminary conclusions is that it isn’t about a specific environmental variable that causes conditions; it’s the cumulative effect that really adds up. We have 80,000 chemicals on the market right now that have never been tested for safety. We call it “total load.”
Where do you encourage families to start?
We have an online community for parents called Healing Together where they can get help. You don’t have to worry about all the little details. It’s about shifting your mindset and living as close to nature as possible. There’s plenty of evidence showing that children who have more access to natural environments are generally healthier. documentinghope.com
Kateryna Hliznitsova, inset courtesy of Beth Lambert
Beth Lambert
HE A LTH
Mersea founders Caroline Kelley Rosen and Molly Knauer in Bridgehampton
FROM LEFT: DRESS BY THREE GRACES LONDON, CASHMERE HOODED DRESS BY ZADIG & VOLTAIRE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIANA FRANK
DEEP-SEA NUTRITION FOR CHILDREN’S HYDRATION
Founders Caroline Kelley Rosen and Molly Knauer, M.S., R.D., introduce Mersea—a cleaner, mineral-rich alternative to sugary sports drinks, powered by sea moss and honey.
BY CRISTINA CUOMO • PHOTOGRAPHY BY DIANA FRANK
PURIST: What does Mersea help children with?
MOLLY KNAUER: Mersea takes hydration one step further. We offer electrolytes along with important trace minerals from sea moss and kelp in a delicious, convenient way to boost their hydration in a simple squeeze they actually enjoy!
As moms, why was creating a mineral-rich hydration packet not just important to you, but necessary?
CAROLINE KELLEY ROSEN: It became necessary because we couldn’t find anything like it on the market. Most children’s sports drinks and hydration powders are made with artificial dyes, heavy processed flavorings, and added sugars or sweeteners. We wanted to create a cleaner alternative—an everyday, shelfstable hydration packet made with thoughtfully sourced ingredients that parents feel good about giving, and kids genuinely love to sip.
I love the name—Mersea is full of sea minerals! Tell us how you created the formulation.
MK: We wanted to take hydration one step further by creating a product that also included thoughtfully selected ingredients for growing bodies.
After nearly two years of research, we built Mersea around bioavailable electrolytes combined with naturally occurring trace minerals from organic Irish sea moss and organic kelp. Every ingredient had to earn its place, with no artificial dyes or unnecessary added sugars.
Sea moss is trending as a plantbased ingredient for skin and hair, but what are its internal benefits?
Molly, as a registered dietitian, what are the most common nutritional concerns parents bring to you?
MK: One common nutritional concern from parents is picky eating, but true nutrient deficiencies are a lot less common than parents fear if a child is growing well. However, research shows that nutrients like potassium, magnesium, fiber and vitamin D are frequently underconsumed by children in the U.S. Many kids also miss out on trace minerals found in seafood, leafy greens and whole grains. Our goal with Mersea was to create a mineralrich hydration option in a format kids enjoy, supporting healthy hydration while giving parents confidence.
CKR: Sea moss is naturally rich in trace minerals, which are nutrients the body needs in very small amounts but that play important roles in normal bodily functions. It contains naturally occurring minerals such as iodine, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
What are some healthy habits you both practice?
CKR: We’ve learned that movement doesn’t have to be complicated—it just has to be enjoyable. As busy moms, instead of sitting in a conference room, Molly and I often take our calls while walking through the park with our kids. It keeps us moving, gets us outside and lets the kids play while we work. MK: We also love taking dance classes or tennis lessons together. Those moments help us reset, clear our minds and recharge so we can show up as the best versions of ourselves— for our families and for our business. wearemersea.com
Molly Knauer and Caroline Kelley Rosen
AN UNLIKELY HEALTH ELIXIR
Intriguing or repugnant—a revival of one of nature’s oldest medicines stirs controversy. Amely Greeven takes a look.
How far will you go to truly heal thyself? For some intrepid seekers, the answer is golden, and pretty far out. The ancient practice of urine therapy is percolating up from the quiet strata, where it has lived as an overlooked folk medicine. Thousands of years after it was first described in ancient Tantric texts, then used in ancient Egypt, Rome and other cultures worldwide, this fringe therapeutic is losing (some of) its taboo.
The knee-jerk reaction is predictable: disgust. Using your pee as a tonic or a remedy? It takes a significant paradigm shift to even consider. (And if double-blind, placebocontrolled studies are your line in the sand, you might not make the shift.) But push past the gag reflex and the subject turns curious, if not fascinating. Proponents of urine therapy describe urine not as a waste product, but an excess product of sorts, derived from filtered blood plasma and filled with thousands of bioactive compounds that serve different purposes when “upcycled” and used again.
Chief among them are stem cells, which, especially when allowed to proliferate in—gag alert—aged or “evolved” urine, left to sit for months, measure in the hundreds of millions and may be a powerful regenerative agent helping to repair tissues. (Scientists at Wake Forest University used urine-derived stem cells to regenerate injured tissues in the urogenitary system in mice.) Hormones, including melatonin, sex hormones and DHEA may, when reclaimed, increase balance and vitality. Urine contains enzymes (including one called urokinase that helps dissolve blood clots) and electrolytes and minerals, making it the body’s own “structured water,” essential for cellular electrical voltage. The excretion even contains antibodies and antimicrobial peptides that may support the immune system. And as for the basic component, urea, it’s widely accepted as a deeply skin-nourishing agent with antibacterial and antifungal properties; synthetic urea is used in skin care products. Some conjecture that urine’s “rejuvenating” characteristic may come from urea-derived nitric oxide positively interacting with microbiomes all over, and within, the body.
To benefit from these compounds, as well as the less measurable life force or prana that advocates say it carries, users apply the liquid to skin (to treat rashes, dermatological conditions, wounds and burns; healthy urine shouldn’t smell…much) and scalp (to promote hair
growth), collect and use it in foot baths (to soften skin and detoxify), swish orally (for sore throats, cavity prevention and whitening) and yes, they sip. (Note: Because urine contains bacteria, traditional medical practitioners warn against drinking urine or applying it to wounds.) Whether using tiny homeopathic amounts under the tongue, daily morning shots, or more complex protocols combined with fasting (called “looping”)—typically used in cases of serious illness to accelerate autophagy—some describe this simple liquid as a “universal therapy” with infinite potential.
Conventional Western medicine has yet to buy in. It largely describes urine therapy as quackery, or even dangerous. Conversely, those tapping their own inner waters see urine therapy as a uniquely personal regenerative medicine—something that ancient seers understood could, in ways either quantum or material, signal to the body exactly what it needs to replenish, regenerate or heal without stimulating rejection, like exogenous substances might. They point out how the original Vedic texts call the practice Shivambu, “Shiva” for God and “ambu” for waters, suggesting it can deepen an intuitive, personal relationship to healing, to one’s inner knowing, and ultimately, to God.
The truth may lie somewhere between both camps—an unorthodox sovereign medicine that also should be used with discernment. Says Ayurvedic-trained doctor Jayant Lokhande, M.D., “There is a long history of using Shivambu in India, but always under a doctor’s guidance; a personalized protocol is given, with certain times and seasons to do it, specific duration of use, rituals including mantras—and even herbs to balance certain health conditions.” It’s not a one-size-fits all approach; a person’s diet and health status matter. “To ensure quality output, you must ensure proper inputs, and that the metabolic machinery is working well.”
Nevertheless, seekers outside of those traditional systems are exploring on their own. When Montana-based clothing designer Love—one name—experienced a brutal bout of edema, she did research, then tried the therapy, keen to avoid prescription drugs after years of medical treatment as a teen. She credits it for her healing and began to study further, using it more regularly at home, for accidents like burns. “My experience of going from miserable to better absolutely hooked me,” she says, noting how much information is now being shared online. “I wanted to learn everything about it.”
ASK THE DR.
Dr. Jonathan B. Levine, founder of NYC-based dental longevity practice Smile House, on the oral-systemic connection and why your mouth is the ultimate gateway to whole-body wellness. BY RAY ROGERS
PURIST: You’ve described the mouth as “one of the body’s most powerful biological gateways.” How does what happens in the mouth connect to whole-body inflammation, brain health and cardiovascular risk?
JONATHAN B. LEVINE: The mouth is the second-largest microbiome in the body, home to over 600 bacterial species. When healthy, it is a protective barrier. When it isn’t, it becomes a portal. We call it “leaky gums,” the oral equivalent of leaky gut. Chronically inflamed, bleeding tissue gives pathogens like Porphyromonas gingivalis a direct route into the bloodstream.
From there, we’ve found oral bacteria embedded in the carotid artery walls of cardiovascular patients and in the amyloid plaques in the brains of those with Alzheimer’s. There are now 57 documented diseases linked to chronic oral inflammation, including diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. A dental visit is one of the earliest windows we have into whole-body inflammation.
Smile House’s Mouth Mapping assesses over 30 biomarkers. What can saliva reveal that standard cleanings and X-rays completely miss?
Cleanings and X-rays catch decay and bone loss, but tell you almost nothing about the underlying biology. Saliva is a different story. Through salivary diagnostics, we generate a readout of roughly 200 bacterial species, identifying the specific pathogens a person carries and their systemic risks. We also run oral genome testing that flags inflammatory markers and salivary glucose levels right in the chair.
Testing oral pH also gives us an immediate signal. Harmful bacteria thrive in an acidic, low-pH environment, meaning we can spot risks for decay and dysbiosis before a cavity forms. Cleanings treat what is visible; Mouth Mapping surfaces what isn’t.
How does gut-oral dysbiosis—or a microbial imbalance between the mouth and the gut—manifest in practice, and how does that disruption ripple downstream?
The mouth, gut and brain operate as one continuous, bidirectional network. Dysbiosis occurs when the oral microbiome shifts away from healthy bacteria toward an overgrowth of harmful, inflammatory species—usually
because the environment has become too acidic.
Every time we swallow, we seed the gut with whatever lives in our mouth. An oral environment dominated by pathogens disrupts downstream gut flora, and those inflammatory molecules can travel through the bloodstream, contributing to digestive issues and lowgrade systemic inflammation. It is genuinely bidirectional: Gut imbalance shows up in the mouth, and oral imbalance shows up in the gut.
What are the early, easy-to-miss oral signals that someone’s overall health may be under strain?
Bleeding gums during brushing or flossing is the single most overlooked signal. It isn’t normal; it is inflammation, full stop. Persistent bad breath is another warning sign people routinely dismiss with a mint. Other signals include red or puffy gums, gum recession, slightly loose teeth, unexplained dry mouth, or a noticeable shift in taste. Together, they are often the earliest evidence that thyroid inflammation, autoimmune activity or metabolic strain is in motion elsewhere. The mouth tends to show its hand before bloodwork does.
How do issues like poor sleep, snoring or anxiety trace back to the mouth and jaw?
More often than patients suspect. Our imaging scans map the anatomy from the nose straight through the airway, allowing us to see a deviated septum, a narrow airway or chronic mouth breathing directly. Mouth breathing prevents deep, regenerative stages of sleep, which is deeply intertwined with anxiety, irritability and daytime fatigue.
What are two or three things anyone can start doing at home this week to support their oral-systemic health?
First, stop dismissing bleeding gums. If you see blood, it deserves a conversation with your dentist. Second, brushing for two minutes twice a day and flossing daily actively manages the low-pH conditions that allow harmful bacteria to take over. Third, monitor your sleep. If you wake up tired, snore or have a dry mouth, it is often an anatomical signal worth investigating rather than just a caffeine problem. Noticing these signals is the first step toward catching a problem while it’s still easy to change. smilehouse.co
Frank Frances, inset
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Dr Jonathan B. Levine
PERFECTION
IS IN THE DETAILS
THE ULTIMATE 180
Constance Korol’s data-backed Meta 180 Method regulates the nervous system to help high performers conquer burnout and reclaim lasting vitality. BY
RAY ROGERS
PURIST: The name Meta 180 Method itself suggests a complete reversal—a 180. What are people turning away from, and what are they turning toward, and how did your three-body framework of physical, emotional and energetic health come about?
CONSTANCE KOROL: A 180 is not just a change in direction, it is a change in relationship—with your body, your stress, your energy and what you believe is possible for your life. Many people are turning away from waiting until something breaks, from burnout as normal. They are turning toward ownership, toward vitality, toward a more proactive and intelligent relationship with their health. Many of the people I work with already have lab work, wearable data, supplements, doctors, movement practices, recovery tools. What they often do not have is integration. That is where the Meta 180 Method comes in—organizing those inputs into a personal protocol built around a three-body framework: physical strength, emotional balance and spiritual empowerment.
I have completed two full Ironman 140.6-mile races, nine Half Ironman 70.3-mile races, two marathons, and Hyrox, so I knew how to train the body. But about 10 years ago, I realized physical strength alone was not the whole answer. You can be strong and still be emotionally exhausted. You can be disciplined and still be dysregulated. The physical, emotional,and energetic bodies are always in conversation. That is how the Meta 180 Method evolved—bringing together health education and clinical nutrition with yoga, meditation, Reiki, sound healing and nervous system regulation.
Meta 180 has become sought-after for corporate wellness and executive burnout. When you walk into a high-stress organization, where do you begin to find balance? Many organizations still define health too narrowly. They think wellness means a workout class, a step challenge, a quick stress-management talk. A person can exercise and still be exhausted. They can be productive and still be dysregulated, running on poor sleep, stress chemistry and no real recovery rhythm. I believe we need to look beyond the chronological clock and pay attention to the biological clock—how the body is actually functioning, adapting, recovering. The goal is not just to help people get through another workday, but to build daily patterns that support long-term vitality and quality of life. Most organizations are not only dealing with a stress problem; they are dealing with a recovery problem, and recovery is not soft. Recovery is strategic.
“Nervous system regulation” is everywhere right now. For someone chronically running on high cortisol, what does the Meta 180 approach prioritize—and what do most people get wrong?
A lot of people try to regulate with more pressure. More hacks. Another protocol. Another app. The nervous system does not respond well to force. You cannot force the body into regulation—you have to teach the body that it is safe enough to shift. In the Meta 180 Method, we look at the full rhythm of the day: light, food timing, movement, stress load, digital stimulation, evening wind-down, sleep. Most people are not dysregulated because they missed one meditation; they are dysregulated because their daily rhythm keeps telling the body to stay on alert. Regulation is not a spa day. It is a daily rhythm.
Deep recovery is central to your work. What does your recovery protocol look like for someone with a serious, long-term sleep deficit?
Sleep does not begin at bedtime. That is what surprises people most. If someone has a long-term sleep deficit, we look at the whole day—morning light, food timing, caffeine, movement, stress, evening routine, the body’s ability to downshift. Often the first step is not adding more. It is subtracting. Less overstimulation. Less late-night input. Less trying to override the body. In Meta 180, we build recovery into the person’s actual life—not just one treatment, not just one good night of sleep. A protocol.
When you need to reset your own system and step away from the data, what does your ideal day of personal restoration look like?
My natural rhythm is early—I am usually up around 5AM. On a restoration day I may still look at my Oura ring data, but I do not let the data run the day. I let it inform me. Then I return to the basics: meditation, Reiki self-practice, nourishing food, movement, sunlight, community, quiet. I use tools, but I do not worship the tools. Winter restoration might mean the couch, a quiet evening and my two Jack Russells curled up beside me. Dinner is usually simple and light with my husband or friends, then something easy and familiar on television—Beat Bobby Flay or Rooster—something that lets the day soften instead of asking more from my nervous system. Restoration is not escape. It is removing urgency long enough for the body to return to its natural rhythm. That, to me, is longevity in practice. meta180.com
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SPACE
With contributions from the likes of Laurie Anderson, Ai Weiwei, Eric Fischl, Renee Cox, Sean Scully and LongHouse Reserve founder Jack Lenor Larsen, DayDreams, curated and edited by James Salomon, a keen-eyed gallerist and art adviser with deep roots on the East End, is an invitation to step inside the dreamworld of some of LongHouse’s and the Hamptons’ most notable artists. “Daydreaming is a romantic notion of impractical thought,” Salomon tells Purist, “and yet sometimes the seed that boosts our creative energy.” Julian Schnabel’s triptych, shown here, is a case in point: three stills from his 2007 film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, paired with a hand-transcribed passage from Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir of the same name—a book composed entirely inside Bauby’s mind, one blink at a time, after a stroke left him paralyzed. Elsewhere in the book, Schnabel writes out Vincent van Gogh’s own daydream of companionship, of someone simply asking how he is. Schnabel, who directed film adaptations of both men’s lives, chose two writers who built entire interior worlds because the outer one had stopped answering. longhouse.org —Ray Rogers
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SPARKLING ROOMS
Clear, clean and balance the energy in your home through the potent mastery of Sacred Spaces Kollectiv. BY
JIM SERVIN
Twin sisters Saidah Khan and Nudrat Bisciello, founders of Sacred Spaces Kollectiv, clear energy in homes and businesses, enhancing flow that supports well-being and peace of mind. With an arsenal of tools and healing protocols at the ready— including chakra balancing, Ayurvedic medicine, Reiki and crystals—they set to work. Bells ring, a feather dusts the air, a pendulum swings.
“It’s not just about energetically clearing the space, but also nervous system regulation,” says Bisciello, a former holistic psychiatric nurse practitioner. “Your body knows when the energy in a room is off, even if you might not be aware of it. We’ve all walked into a room where our body tenses up, or feels relaxation and calm. It’s important to have a space that is regulated rather than chaotic.”
Born and raised in Queens, New York, the sisters were drawn to the mystical in their early years, reading new age books such as Brian Weiss’ Many Lives, Many Masters and The Secret As teenagers, they set metaphysics aside, but returned to it after both had established secular careers, Khan as a senior technical talent partner at Twitter, and Bisciello in healthcare. Soon they became the go-tos for healing and wellness among friends and family, before launching Sacred Spaces Kollectiv two years ago.
During a typical session, Sacred Spaces Kollectiv works to make home or office shipshape, removing stagnant energy and replacing it with peaceful, inspiring vibes that support new goals. Among their successes: recently divorced individuals
who have been able to break ties and move on, as well as women conceiving after setting intentions around fertility. “There’s definitely a give and take between us, a telepathy,” says Khan of the twins’ working dynamic. “We tend to feel the same things going through a space.”
Manhattan-based sales executive Ivett Chicas called upon Sacred Spaces Kollectiv to help with the energy of her midtown home, where she frequently works remotely from a desk in a bedroom shared by her two young children. “I was feeling chaotic tension in the apartment, a little anxious. I didn’t know where it was coming from,” Chicas says. “I needed to dilute that energy. I’ve known Nudrat and Saidah for years, and was certain they could clear and refresh the space.”
The twins worked their practical magic.
“I’m not normally a person who understands crystals,” Chicas says. “I’m a Type A personality with a high stress job.” The twins focused on Chicas’ desk, then the rest of the apartment. They created a crystal grid—an arrangement of jade, amethyst, chrysocolla, garnet, howlite and pyrite— which Chicas says has been powerfully effective: “I don’t feel anxious when I’m working, and when I’m playing with my kids in the same space, I’m more calm.” Her home, now an oasis of groundedness and flow, clarity and ineffable sparkle, is a tribute to Sacred Space Kollectiv’s business motto: “Energy is the new luxury.”
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Kollectiv’s Saidah Khan. Below: Khan, right, with her twin Nudrat Bisciello
PURE PROPERTY
Find your personal paradise: three gems in enviable markets. BY JULIA SZABO
With its exalted vantage point 97 stories above Manhattan’s storied Billionaire’s Row, glamour’s new address is 217 West 57th Street, #97E. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls make this 4-bedroom, 4.5 bathroom, never-lived-in condo a blank canvas to showcase its owner’s personal decor style. Spanning half an entire floor of Central Park Tower, the world’s tallest residential building, this condo, indeed the whole structure, is designed to optimize wellness: The documented health benefits of highrise views’ expansive scenery—including enhanced cognitive focus and improved sleep quality—are amplified by the natural daylight and aerial views of NYC landmarks, from the East River to the Hudson, including lower Manhattan.
Occupying one half of an entire level, with glass walls— roughly 14 feet tall and soundproof—the indoor scenery is equally compelling. The entrance foyer’s walk-in coat closet and jewel box powder room offer a grand entree to the expansive living room and exquisite kitchen oasis, featuring cabinetry
by Smallbone of Devizes, sleek stone slab countertops, and fully integrated Miele appliances. Four bedrooms with en suite bathrooms, roomy walk-in closets, and a side-by-side washer/ dryer and state-of-the-art HVAC system round out the amenities. More than good bones, this space, listed with Lisa K. Lippman and Gerard “Scott” Moore of Brown Harris Stevens, stands ready to showcase your individual style of living. It has 24-hour doormen and concierge service, a 63-foot indoor saltwater pool, and a 14th-floor landscaped terrace, featuring a 60-foot outdoor pool, sun deck and private cabanas.
The maritime village of Sag Harbor is home to a residence embodying all the charms of its seaside setting: 9 Clearview Drive, designed by McDonough & Conroy Architects and listed with Martha Gundersen of Douglas Elliman, offers an unparalleled combination of privacy, proximity to town, elevation and waterfront ease. For peace of mind, the house has 95 feet of newly bulkheaded water frontage,
gas fireplace and walls of glass. Home-keeping is effortlessly enabled by a laundry room on the lower level, plus a washer-dryer and linen closet on the second floor. From its foundation up, the home is steeped in fine, functional details: a detached 2-car garage with GarageTek storage; a wholehouse generator; continuous grounds monitoring via CCTV; a luxurious, lower-level, open, glass-walled gym; a state-ofthe-art Kaleidoscope home movie theater; plus a below-stairs living room and pair of guest rooms. Experience next-level, indoors-out seaside living in this exceptional property.
plus a private outdoor staircase for direct bay access. High above Little Peconic Bay, the splendid setting’s unobstructed views enable 24/7 calm contemplation of this historic “blue space”—sublime golden hours and truly spectacular sunsets. Enjoy a dip in the heated gunite pool with separate lounge; sunbathe by the European pergola; or take shade beneath mature specimen trees on the fully fenced grounds, mindfully designed by Harmonia Landscape Architects. The mahogany deck is outfitted with a woodburning fireplace, retractable awning, and Kalamazoo kitchen with grill and refrigerator for gracious exterior catering and dining. Inside, the kitchen mirrors the outdoor vibe with a central island that flows into the grand living room, accented with a
In Colorado, come home to 386 Pfister Drive, in Aspen’s exclusive Maroon Creek Club, an inspired blend of privacy, ski access and scale as breathtaking as a downhill race. Ski-in/ski-out of ski trails in the Buttermilk Mountain ski area, including Tiehack, then enjoy apres-ski in your own designercurated luxury chalet, enveloped by wood beams, moodlifting natural light and tastefully selected artwork beneath soaring ceilings. Gaze at the great room’s fireplace, watch sports or classic films in the kitchen-side sitting area, and entertain year-round in high Aspen style in the formal dining room or out on the patio, beautifully terraced into the mountains. Your ski access, transformed into a private summer dining oasis, comes complete with a tranquil waterfall for meditative mealtimes. The upper level is your primary suite; take in the views from the private balcony. The lower level sports a 1,417-bottle wine cellar, a full bar, a home theater with arcade games, shuffleboard, a pool table, and a gym, plus 3 additional guest suites. Delivered turnkey, and listed with Brittanie Rockhill, Douglas Elliman.
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Caribbean views from the pier at Nizuc Resort & Spa, a secluded retreat at the gateway to Mexico’s Riviera Maya
BAREFOOT LUXURY
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas pairs timeless hospitality with three signature pools, a pristine beach, tennis, new padel courts and seasonal wellness resets.
BY RAY ROGERS
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas sits on 36 acres of white sand and turquoise water on Paradise Island—107 rooms, a Bahamian pedigree and generations of the same families booking the same weeks annually. General manager John Conway credits the return traffic to something far more subtle than a renovation: staff longevity. “It starts with the fundamental hospitality that seems to be ingrained in the Bahamian service,” he says. “Many of our team members have been here for decades.” Combined with a beach he calls “jawdropping,” this deep-rooted loyalty defines Conway’s view of barefoot luxury—unfussy, generational and largely unchanged by design.
Which isn’t to say nothing moves. The resort’s adultonly, historic Versailles Pool got a refresh this year, set against the tiered Versailles Gardens. New parasols and chaises now carry a custom cherry-red floral-and-sea-life print, a small but deliberate update to a space Conway calls “swanky” enough to make guests “feel like you’re in another world.” “While guests may notice subtle changes, they return because of the familiar setting and the way our people truly make them feel,” he says.
The most significant addition is on the courts. Riding a global surge in the sport, The Ocean Club added two padel courts this year alongside its Har-Tru tennis courts.
“Padel is having a moment right now—a huge growth worldwide, it seems,” Conway says, “and it’s made a really nice complement to our tennis. We’re seeing a lot of interest with guests wanting to learn how to play, and it’s great for families, too.” The courts were placed deliberately into the property’s landscaping—screened by palms, lit for night play and out of the direct sightline from the pool. “They are still spaced between heavily landscaped areas... tucked in the middle,” Conway says, “a uniquely Bahamas racket sport experience.”
Ready to up your game? Instruction is available through Marvin Rolle, a Bahamas national team player who won bronze at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games—and whose father, Leo Rolle, was the resort’s tennis pro for more than 50 years. Rolle works with beginners and experienced players alike, another instance of the multigenerational staff loyalty Conway points to as the property’s real differentiator.
Wellness programming is evolving with the calendar, too. Health coach Nora Tobin, whose summer series drew guests into sunrise-to-sunset sessions, returns October 16–19 for “Nature Reset,” a slate aimed less at rejuvenation than restoration. She’s back December 4–7 for a “Holiday Healthy” edition, closing out a year that’s seen plenty of favorable movement. fourseasons.com/oceanclub
The Versailles Pool, with a stylish makeover.
SUMMER SANCTUARY
Escape to the heart of the Berkshires for new open-air wellness experiences at Canyon Ranch, inspired by the healing powers of nature. BY JENNA LEBOVITS
As research continues to support the undeniable mindbody boost that comes from time spent in nature, many of the country’s leading resorts and retreats are taking note, and moving beyond the traditional spa experience that exists inside treatment rooms. This summer, Canyon Ranch Lenox is embracing the shift with two new spaces through its Outdoor Sanctuaries for Ritual & Renewal offering, in partnership with Los Angeles designer Jenni Kayne and the skincare and self-care gurus at Oak Essentials. The initiative reintroduces the resort’s Aura and Mystic Tents, both spaces curated by Kayne herself with comfortable seating, home furnishings, signature candles and earthy tones, all nestled amid the trees on the 120-acre grounds.
“We believe wellness is shaped not only by the treatments we offer, but by the environments we create and the way those experiences make people feel,” shares Katie Mulligan, senior vice president of spa, beauty and retail. “From the sound of the birds, rustling of the trees, to the feeling of being fully present outdoors, every detail was designed to support restoration, reflection and meaningful moments of pause.” Both of the newly appointed tents
offer guests a uniquely serene setting for bodywork, energy healing and group tea and tarot ceremonies.
Reserve the Aura Tent for a 1:1 session with one of Canyon Ranch’s expert practitioners—like the Oak Essentials Harmonic Flow Ritual, which combines tuning fork frequencies, guided breath work and plant-based oils to support the nervous system, or the Oak Essentials Barefoot Renewal Ritual, a grounding treatment featuring aromatic compresses, exfoliation and warm stone therapy. Groups can gather in the Mystic Tent for guided sound healing, tea ceremonies, crystal healing and tarot sessions.
After a slow-paced morning in the spa, a healing session in one of the tents, or a nutritious, locally sourced lunch, guests can make their way over to the Great Lawn for the return of Canyon Ranch’s beloved Supper Series. Through the rest of the season, some of the nation’s top chefs will head to the property for alfresco dinners, celebrating the local seasonal bounty and good company. Foodies need not look any further than Lenox: In August, James Beard-nominated chef Joe Cash, founder of Scoundrel in Greenville, South Carolina, takes the table, followed in
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Lenox
Unwind on Canyon Ranch’s Great Lawn, overlooking the historic Bellefontaine mansion.
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September by James Beard Award-winning chef David Standridge of Connecticut’s Shipwright’s Daughter. With more than 35 optional daily activities to choose from and a seasonally rotating program calendar (right now, dive into mediumship, metaphysics and dance movement therapy 101), there’s a little something for everyone, and plenty of newness to be found for any veteran guests who’ve been flocking to the resort for years. “Summer at Canyon Ranch is all about helping people slow down and reconnect with themselves, with nature and with the people around them,” says Mulligan. “Whether it’s with one of our seasonal Oak Essentials treatments in the outdoor spa tent, gathering with friends for a Supper Series dinner under the summer sky, or simply hiking through the Berkshires, every experience was designed to leave guests feeling more present, restored and renewed.” canyonranch.com/lenox
Courtesy of Canyon Ranch Lenox
The tent sanctuaries, open for private and group sessions, are available for a limited time.
Guests can canoe on nearby Stockbridge Bowl, a short drive from the property.
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WELLNESS RETREATS
Purist’s guide to top global getaways for health and well-being.
AUSTRIA
Aqua Dome
This spa-focused hideaway has sound bowl sessions, thalassotherapy (therapeutic use of seawater), a kids sauna menu, anti-cellulite treatments and seven luxury saunas. It is also located near Sölden, a renowned winter sports area. aqua-dome.at/en
BRAZIL
Fasano Angra Dos Reis
After a trek up Pico do Frade or a cruise around the archipelago’s 300 islands, decompress with a guided meditation beneath a cascading waterfall, or
indulge with Costa Brazil products. fasano.com.br
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Casa de Campo
Enjoy gourmet dining, rejuvenate at the state-ofthe-art spa or unwind on pristine private beaches. It’s also home to the Caribbean’s No. 1-ranked golf course. casadecampo.com.do
Ocama
With just eight private ecovillas tucked into the lush hills of the Samaná Peninsula, Ocama offers a naturebased escape to one of the Caribbean’s last unspoiled
corners. Expect personalized concierge service, fresh Dominican cuisine and daily boat trips exploring hidden beaches or whale-watching in season. ocama.com
Punta Cana
Find your perfect moment of rest and relaxation at Punta Cana Resort, where lush living meets nature. Enjoy gorgeous beaches, world-class golf and five-star accommodations. puntacana.com
FIJI
Six Senses Fiji
Sleep on a Naturalmat organic bed in one of 24 villas located on Malolo
Island. There is a full-service marina, a surf school and 60 luxury residences. sixsenses.com
FINLAND
Arctic TreeHouse Hotel
Experience a traditional Finnish sauna and iceswimming in an Arctic Circle forest where you’ll hopefully catch a glimpse of the northern lights while staying in sustainably built housing. arctictreehousehotel.com
FRANCE
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, the Dior Spa Eden-Roc
A true Riviera sanctuary blending luxury wellness
Nizuc Resort & Spa, Mexico
Azuma Farm Koiwai, Japan
with the natural beauty of the Mediterranean. Unwind in secluded treatment suites, open-air cabins and a hydrotherapy space inspired by the sea, sun and surrounding landscape before indulging in rituals like the Escale à Eden-Roc for a sculpting face-andbody treatment and D-Stress Thérapie, a deeply relaxing ritual designed to release tension, calm the nervous system and restore balance. End your restorative journey with a spritz of Eden-Roc, Dior’s luminous fragrance inspired by the Côte d’Azur. dior.com
INDONESIA
NIHI Sumba by Chris Burch
For a minimum of three nights, engage in philanthropic work with the Sumba Foundation, embark on a spa safari, go deep-
sea fishing and visit the chocolate factory. nihi.com
ITALY
Palazzo Fiuggi
Perched on an ancient hilltop in its own private 8-hectare park, Palazzo Fiuggi offers unrivaled views over an exquisite landscape. At 700 meters above sea level, the Fiuggi water that originates within the region’s natural springs and mountains has been celebrated for its healing powers and has been scientifically proven to cleanse and purify. This stateof-the-art medical clinic offers programs in longevity, wellness and movement. palazzofiuggi.com
Tenuta di Murlo
The historic family estate in Umbria spans thousands of acres of woodlands, olive groves and vineyards.
Authentic Italian luxury is guaranteed with beautifully restored villas, nourishing, seasonal farm-to-table dining and horseback rides. murlo.com
MALTA
Iniala Harbour House
A restorative wellness escape set along Valletta’s Grand Harbour. Sundrenched suites, private plunge pools and sweeping views of the Three Cities await. Recharge at the tranquil spa or dine at the two-Michelin-starred ION Harbour. inialamalta.com
MEXICO Cuixmala
An extraordinary visual feast, this exquisitely appointed eco-estate on Mexico’s west coast features a vast private nature reserve complete with majestic wild
zebras and eland antelopes roaming free. cuixmala.com
Nizuc Resort & Spa
Spend your days snorkeling coral reefs, sailing around the waters near Cancún aboard a private yacht, or mastering the fine art of sushi-making, all before unwinding at the awardwinning spa. nizuc.com
PERU
Inkaterra
A pioneer in ecotourism and the world’s first climatepositive hotel brand, its eight properties span Machu Picchu’s cloud forest, Amazon lodges accessible only by river, Cuzco, the Sacred Valley and Cabo Blanco. Across each location, organic cuisine and immersive cultural experiences unfold in harmony with Peru’s extraordinary landscapes. inkaterra.com
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UNITED STATES COLORADO
Aspen Meadows Resort
Located on 40 acres beside the Roaring Fork River, this secluded sanctuary is in Aspen’s historic West End. Enjoy an art walk at the Herbert Bayer-designed property. aspenmeadows.com
PENNSYLVANIA
The Lodge at Woodloch Personal awakening is the order of every day at the Lodge, nestled in the Poconos, an hour and a half from New York City. Choose from 50 unique classes
Cuixmala, Mexico
and offerings, including inspirational guest speakers (from nutrition and life coaches, to Reiki shamanic healers and sommeliers). thelodgeatwoodloch.com
TARGETED RETREATS
Canyon Ranch
Voted America’s Most Outstanding Wellness
Resorts of 2024 by the Michelin Hotel Guide, with locations in Tucson, Arizona; Lenox, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; Fort Worth, Texas; and Austin, Texas, opening October 2026, each with world-class wellness menus. Choose from 1,500 services in settings that inspire holistic healing and transformation. canyonranch.com
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COSTA RICA
Playa Cativo Lodge
Accessible only by boat, this remote sanctuary
complete health reset, based on the principles of movement, mindful nutrition, wellness in nature and authentic human connection. With two spectacular locations—the Hudson Valley, as well as Malibu—restoration and recovery are as important at The Ranch as building strength and endurance. theranchlife.com
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Black Tomato
Specializing in bespoke itineraries focusing on personal growth and cultural immersion, Black Tomato helps travelers reconnect through slowpaced exploration, a passion for discovery and a commitment to sustainability. blacktomato.com
NATURE IMMERSIONS
offers complete nature immersion deep within the rainforest. Discover a wild paradise that pumas, anteaters, scarlet macaws and dolphins call home. playacativo.com
JAPAN
Azuma Farm Koiwai
The newly opened 24villa retreat set within the 130-year-old Koiwai Farm offers private wood-fired saunas, farm-to-table dining, and immersive experiences like horseback riding and mountainside cycling. azumafarms.com
MONTANA
The Ranch at Rock Creek
Experience ranch life by glamping on a 19thcentury homestead with the entire family. Find flyfishing, archery, shooting sports, forest bathing and cross-country skiing at Discovery Ski Area. theranchatrockcreek.com
The Resort at Paws Up Montana
Just a half-hour drive or so from Missoula International Airport, the premier luxury ranch resort is located on 37,000 acres in Greenough,
Montana, offering guests an active, outdoor-driven escape. Stay in one of the upscale safari-style tents or historic homes, and partake in Western adventures like horseback riding, fly-fishing and ATV tours. pawsup.com
SAUDI ARABIA
Banyan Tree Alula
A tranquil desert retreat nestled in the secluded Ashar Valley, the hotel is surrounded by sweeping desert sands and towering sandstone cliffs. banyantree. com/saudi-arabia
From top: Courtesy of Tenuta di Murlo, Playa Cativo Lodge
Playa Cativo Lodge, Costa Rica
Tenuta di Murlo, Italy
WE E K | E ND THE WAY SHE IS
Melissa Errico on finding her own voice inside the Streisand songbook.
BY RAY ROGERS
Tony–nominated actress, singer and writer Melissa Errico brings her acclaimed concert The Streisand Effect: Melissa Sings Barbra to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Monday, August 17. She’s joined by pianist Billy Stritch—a longtime Streisand collaborator—and a swinging quartet. The evening moves through Streisand standards like “People,” “The Way We Were” and “Send in the Clowns,” but the critically hailed show becomes less about homage than reinvention: a study of what happens when a performer finds her own voice within another’s repertoire.
PURIST: The Wall Street Journal review says the show starts as Streisand homage and ends as selfdiscovery. Did you build that arc in, or did it show up after enough nights onstage?
MELISSA ERRICO: I discovered the structure, the architecture of the show, in the process of doing it—that always happens—but from the beginning I knew I didn’t want to do a simple tribute show, where I copied or, God forbid, tried impersonating her. I wanted it to be an homage, meaning a concert where you try to chart all the paths an artist left open for the next generation to follow. It’s not an attempt to recapitulate what she achieved, but about everything flowing from this wonderful source to undiscovered rivers and unknown ground. It’s about the open road ahead that a great artist pioneered for us.
You’ve built a career interpreting other people’s songbooks—Sondheim, Legrand, now Streisand.
on August 17.
Charlie Flint
Errico performs at Bay Street Theater
“l hear the melody of ‘On a Clear Day’ in my head every time I step into this show. The clarity, boldness and beauty of Streisand’s work feels healthy to be around.”
What’s different about singing Streisand versus, say, Sondheim? “Evergreen” aside, Barbra isn’t really a songwriter. She’s a presence—a performer. So, I’m interpreting her interpretation of other songwriters, and particularly of those two whom we share, [Michel] Legrand and [Stephen] Sondheim. Her version of both those songwriters, whom she knew well and worked with closely, is her own: passionate, sometimes wistful, and in the most enviable way very “Brooklyn.”
My approach to them (and they were friends and mentors for me as well) is maybe more sensual, intellectual, even agonized—very Italian! Barbra’s influence is felt for every other woman singer as a series of possibilities and permissions: to climb higher than you thought possible and sing and speak more strongly than was thought acceptable for a woman, before she made it so.
The Grammy-winning pianist Randy Waldman (with whom you created this concert in 2025) spent over four decades working with Streisand directly. Has he shared anything about her process that changed how you sing these songs?
Randy adores this music, and when he plays, sometimes I have to look over at him to make sure he’s not a record. I was set up with Randy five years ago, and we began with a duo concert of Sondheim’s music. We then created holiday concerts, and a year after that, he did my West Coast tour of film noir jazz. He often said I should sing closer to Barbra’s exact keys, which sat my voice less in soprano terrain and in a more earthy, conversational tone with the temptation to belt. Randy both eased and stretched my technique.
Now you are touring the show on the East Coast with jazz pianist Billy Stritch.
Yes, this project has grown! And when I had encore concerts to do in Manhattan, I called them “Back to Barbra (With Billy),” a wink to her Back to Broadway album. Billy brings me the chance to sing duets and to share a mutual respect for Barbra. He is mentioned in Barbra’s autobiography because he was Liza Minnelli’s accompanist for decades. Billy understands divas, and he brings a feeling of joy to every performance we do. We are excited to play Provincetown Town Hall on August 23, followed by Palm Beach, Emelin Theatre and more. The audience loves his laughter and our glee, especially when we sing disco. Enough is (never) enough!
What’s the thing about Streisand’s singing that other interpreters get wrong? “Send in the Clowns” and “People” are songs a performer can vanish into. How do you keep your own versions from getting swallowed by the originals?
Of course, I adore her readings of both those songs—and “People” is so hers that I can only do it in musical quotation marks, so to speak. But inevitably, my own experience flows into my singing.
For Barbra, “Send in the Clowns”— which she urged Steve Sondheim to write some new lyrics for, and he did, an amazing thing!—seems addressed to Fredrik, the lover she was hoping was still waiting for her. For me, it’s more interior: I see it as the self-directed song of a woman who got everything she wanted and ended up with nothing she wanted. As a mother myself, I can imagine the pain of a woman consumed by her work to the point of losing her life. Our versions rise from our own unique experience, which you
can’t avoid as a performer. You can’t force a new version. It finds you.
You’ve said this show is as much about finding your own voice as it is about Streisand’s. Is there a specific moment—a lyric, a key change, a bit of banter—where that shift happens most clearly?
The shift happened on page 729 of her book. I came upon Pat Conroy’s letter and how he called Barbra a woman of genius and vision—a “daughter of fire.” Barbra loved that expression, and so did I. Then one day, one of my three daughters, Juliette, apologized to me for a small disagreement. I’d forgotten about it, but she approached me and was deeply thoughtful. She said she doesn’t know why she gets so intense, that sometimes she feels she’s “on fire.” This stopped me. It inspired me to call David Shire and ask him to write a new song for this concert called “Daughter of Fire.” I absolutely love it. With lyrics inspired by Rumi, it is an incantation with a Van Morrison-style 1970s driving arrangement. I sing of two things: awe, for one, and for the divine feminine strength that Juliette deserves to have and harness.
In a more meta sense, I hear the melody of “On a Clear Day” in my head every time I step into this show.
The clarity and boldness and sheer beauty of Streisand’s collected work feels healthy to be around. You know that melody? “Rise and look around you…and you’ll see who you are.” This concert feels so good at this moment— it’s got songs we all love, and her songbook lets us feel everything from absurd silliness to honest longing. It’s a clear day, and an invitation, we need. Have you ever heard the Rumi line of poetry: “Why did I make brooding my vocation when awe was an option?” baystreet.org
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Dr. Stacie Stephenson
THE NEW GRACEFUL AGING
A guide to refreshing your fitness routine over 40. BY
DR. STACIE STEPHENSON
Who doesn’t want to age gracefully? But what does that mean, exactly? Once, the phrase was considered grist for compliments, and there was a belief that graceful aging was a gift bestowed upon some and denied to others.
“Look how she still does yoga and walks her dog every day! She is aging so gracefully.”
Today, we have gotten more serious and more scientific about what it means to age well. We’ve also figured out that graceful aging is something anyone can experience, but it takes much more than luck or divine providence. It takes work, and by work I mean exercise. However, the kind of exercise you need now is different than the kind you may have been practicing for the past few decades.
Graceful aging is certainly easier if you’ve been exercising throughout adulthood, but for many reasons I’ll explain in this article, you can benefit greatly by shifting how you exercise after 40. I’ve found that many people in their 40s, 50s and 60s are still doing the same workouts they did at 25: long runs, back-to-back spin classes, an hour of cardio because that is what burned calories back then. Or, they find that if they can’t do that same workout, they stop exercising much at all.
The truth is, the body that responded to your younger self’s routine is not the body you have now.
I would not call this change a decline. No, this is a call for a recalibration. Once you reach 40 (and certainly 50 and most definitely 60), your body has different needs. If you want to age gracefully, then you need to figure out what those needs are now. Perhaps you are looking ahead and want to preserve your mobility, cognition and independence. Maybe you are looking to regain energy and confidence, as you don’t seem to have the same fire you had a few decades ago. Maybe you want to take care of the joints that are a lot achier than they once were. Or maybe you just want to feel younger than you felt when you woke up this morning. It’s time to reframe the changes you are noticing as a call for a fitness reset, rather than a fitness retreat, so that you can approach your new routine with energy and momentum.
Now, if there is just one shift I would recommend above all others for fitness in your 40s and beyond, it is strength training. I’ll tell you why.
What’s Actually Changing
The hormonal shifts of perimenopause and menopause do more than affect mood and sleep. Declining estrogen changes how your muscles respond to exercise and
how efficiently they repair themselves. Research on postmenopausal women has found a real difference between the sexes here: Women tend to lose muscle mass and strength faster around the menopause transition than men do at the same age, and the muscle-building response to resistance training appears somewhat blunted compared to that of men. Estrogen also seems to support muscle health directly, in part by helping muscle cells perform their roles of repair and growth, and by reducing the low-grade inflammation that accelerates muscle breakdown.
At the same time, resting metabolic rate tends to decline: less circulating estrogen, less muscle tissue doing metabolically active work, and a body that is simply less forgiving of the “eat less, move more” formula that worked at 28. It’s not that anything is wrong. It only means that the inputs you need for optimal health have now changed, and exercise is one of the few inputs you have real control over.
It’s Time to Rethink Cardio
Cardiovascular fitness matters enormously for heart health, mood and longevity. But many women in this age group are doing more high-intensity and long-duration cardio than their recovery can support. This may be your trusted workout, and because it has become a habit, you like it and think you need it (or you don’t like it but still think you need it). However, you don’t need to do cardio for as long as you may have done in the past. More effective now are short bursts of intense exercise. Cardio comes with a rise in the stress hormone cortisol, and while that can build resilience, recovery time is critical. Let the cortisol go up, train your heart and lungs, but then let it go down again by clipping sessions to 20 to 30 minutes, three to five times per week.
The concern is not intensity itself but the accumulation. Stacking long or frequent high-intensity sessions on top of poor sleep, inadequate protein, and everyday stress can begin to break down muscles and joints and increase exhaustion, rather than building muscles, protecting joints and infusing you with energy like a shorter cardio session can do. Some research into combined exercise approaches has found that moderate aerobic activity paired with two to three sessions of resistance training weekly is associated with better regulation of stress hormones and improved sleep and mood in midlife women, more so than cardio alone.
So don’t “stop doing cardio.” But do swap out some of
that cardio for strength training. You will get more mileage out of getting stronger. Instead of building your day or week around getting more steps, miles or aerobic minutes, think about moderating those in favor of lifting more pounds and more strengthtraining minutes. This is how you work smarter, not harder. A widely cited review found that resistance programs of about three sessions a week, sustained for at least six weeks, produced the most consistent improvements in muscle mass and strength in menopausal women.
The Real Reason Muscle Matters
Here is what I want every woman reading this to understand: Muscle is infrastructure. Will you look better when you are stronger and firmer? Sure, you will. But the real power behind building muscle over 40 is how you will be able to get up off the floor, climb the stairs and stand up out of a car without thinking about it for the next 40 years.
The medical term for age-related muscle loss is sarcopenia, and it is closely tied to falls, fractures, loss of mobility and loss of independence in later life. Multiple large studies have found that resistance training improves lowerbody strength and balance enough to measurably reduce fall risk in older adults, an effect cardio does not reliably produce. One reliable measure of aging is grip strength, according to researchers. Across large population studies, weaker grip strength has been associated with higher allcause mortality, in some analyses more strongly than blood pressure. No one is suggesting that grip strength alone determines lifespan, but it is a window into muscle health.
Strength and metabolism also intersect. Muscle is your body’s most metabolically active tissue. The more you preserve, the more efficiently your body manages blood sugar, body composition and energy as you age. Strength training now is not just about how well you fit in your clothes (though it tends to help with that too). It is one of the more powerful, evidence-backed tools available for protecting long-term independence.
Exercise Is an Investment
I would love for every woman over 40 to stop thinking of exercise as something to earn dessert with, and start thinking of it as a deposit into an account she will need to draw on later. The workout you do today is not really about today. It is about whether you can carry your own groceries,
get down on the floor to play with a grandchild, and get back up again, at 75. Every strength session is a small, compounding investment in that future version of you.
But currently, you will also benefit because the more muscle you have, the more excess body fat you burn just sitting still, the more energy your body makes, and the easier it is to move (gracefully) through the days and weeks and years of the rest of your life. It really isn’t about aging. It’s about living.
Get Started With Strength Training
You do not need a complicated program to begin. Start with calisthenics that lift your own body weight (situps, pushups, burpees) or yoga. When you feel ready, incorporate free weights at home or machines at a gym. This is when you will really begin to notice gains in strength and ease of movement. A reasonable strength training schedule for most healthy women over 40 looks something like this:
Two to three strength sessions a week, with at least one rest day between sessions that work the same muscle groups. Work several muscle groups at once: squats, hip hinges, presses, rows and carries are good basics to master.
Lift with enough weight that the last few repetitions of a set feel genuinely challenging. Strength building means lifting enough that it feels difficult by reps eight to 10. Don’t lift until you are completely exhausted. You do not need to train to complete failure (meaning you can’t do even one more rep) to see and feel results.
Keep one or two cardio sessions easy and conversational, and reserve higher-intensity cardio for once or twice a week at most, with enough time to recover with nutritious food and good sleep.
Treat protein, sleep and rest days as part of the training program. Muscle is built during recovery, not during the workout itself.
Progress gradually. Small, steady increases in weight or repetitions over months will outperform an aggressive start that burns you out by week three.
If you are new to strength training or returning after a long break, a few sessions with a qualified trainer to learn proper form on the foundational movements is one of the best investments you can make before going it alone. You can also find many strength-training and core workouts for free online. drstaciestephenson.com
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Fuel your summer with a refreshing watermelon and feta salad packed with circulation-boosting nutrients, antioxidants and immune protection.
BY CRISTINA CUOMO
Watermelon is the summer’s hydrating, nutrient-dense fruit. It’s 92 percent water and delivers high amounts of vitamin C and A, potassium and magnesium as well as lycopene (also found in tomatoes and may help to reduce the risk of prostate cancer).
The watermelon rind—specifically the pale, white flesh between the pink fruit and the outer green skin—is a nutritional powerhouse packed with fiber, vitamin C and the amino acid L-citrulline, which promotes nitric oxide production for better circulation, muscle recovery, heart health and sex! Organic fruit is always the better option because it’s grown without synthetic pesticides, limits exposure to chemical residues, supports sustainable soil health and often yields a more naturally ripened, flavorful melon.
A favorite summer recipe of mine before, after, or as the main course is watermelon salad with feta (packed with protein), basil, plus some delicious cell-protecting polyphenols and antioxidants like blueberries, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar, and a dash of paprika. Load up on these immuneboosting ingredients as we enter the cooler, viral months ahead.
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THE MIRACLE PANCAKE
Gabriella Sarlo brings mindfulness and functional nutrition to the breakfast table with Luv & Yum, an allergen-free stack that lives up to its name. BY RAY ROGERS
When her son was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition,
Gabriella Sarlo’s doctor put the family on an elimination diet— and she suddenly found herself scrutinizing every ingredient in their kitchen. What she couldn’t find was a pancake mix that was organic, free of the nine major allergens, grain-free, and gluten-free, and still tasted like the real thing. “Everything felt like a compromise,” she says. “I realized that if I was searching this hard for something that didn’t exist, there had to be countless other families doing the same thing.”
She wasn’t setting out to build a food company.
“I was simply trying to help my son,” she says.
“Luv & Yum grew organically from that need.”
Getting there took longer than she expected.
“There were months of trial and error, and more failed batches than I could count,” she says.
Grain-free baking doesn’t behave like traditional baking—swap one ingredient and the whole recipe falls apart. The breakthrough was a careful
balance of organic apple cider vinegar powder and baking soda, which gave the pancakes their fluffiness without relying on gums or artificial ingredients. The moment of truth came when it got an instinctive “yum” out of her kids. “When I finally made a pancake that looked and tasted great, I knew I had something special,” she says.
Luv & Yum currently comes in two varieties—Original and Protein, offering a morning boost of 6 grams of protein per serving—with a tagline that sums up the philosophy: Made with love, packed with yum! As the brand starts to fill retail shelves, Sarlo is developing new flavors and eyeing other baking essentials next. “Our goal is to prove that easy-to-make breakfasts do not need to sacrifice on health, taste or trust,” she says. And in her own house, pancakes have become an anytime food: “Sometimes we have them for lunch—we even make them for dessert at night.” It’s not just for breakfast anymore. luvandyum.com
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Annabelle Wallis takes on two powerful new roles in Unabomber and Mutiny.
A FORCE to BEHOLD
From the intrepid spy she plays in BBC Two’s Peaky Blinders, opposite Cillian Murphy, the Harvard scientist in the Netflix series Unabomber with Russell Crowe, and an action hero racing toe-to-toe with Jason Statham in Mutiny, actress Annabelle Wallis, the partner of actor Sebastian Stan, has consistently prioritized strong female roles, projecting determination, complexity and compassion—much as the first-time mother does in her own life.
BY CR ISTINA C UOMO
PURIST: Congratulations on your new baby. It’s so exciting. First-time mom. I’ll get to those questions in a bit. You have a lot of new movies coming up. But I did want to touch really briefly on your character, Grace, in Peaky Blinders, whom I loved so much.
ANNABELLE WALLIS: Oh, thank you.
That must have been such an incredible experience, playing opposite actors like Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy in such a compelling storyline.
The fandom around it has been wonderful. I’m incredibly humbled to be a part of it. It’s a BBC production, so it’s all about the quality on the page. It attracted such incredible people.
Well, you made it special. Your character was the love story in the whole series.
Yeah, she was a very strong woman, and I think in my naive mind I just thought there would be a plethora of these strong women. I think now we’re in an age where you can have incredible antihero females, but they are fewer than one would think. She resonated with so many people. The most complicated people I know usually are these women, with a chameleonic way of taking on different roles, be it the alpha or the divine feminine. I feel women are not represented in their full entirety on screen. I always look for these complex female characters, and Grace really embodied all of that. I thought people would really hate her because I think they’re so used to a more classic written heroine, but they loved her because she was flawed, and there’s something so human about allowing
your characters to be seen in their flaws and allowing people to accept them because each of us has our own. I felt very lucky to play a woman like that.
A female spy, and at that time.
She was one of the first—it was a true story and Grace, the character, was one of the first female spies in MI6 when the separatist movement was happening in Ireland. Of course, we embellished the character because there was only limited information about the real Grace. Steve Knight really knows how to write a strong female, and you see that in all the other female characters as well in the show. A lot of fun. Equal to the men.
You’ve chosen another powerful female role in a script based on a true story, with the upcoming psychological thriller Unabomber What appealed to you about that role as Christiana Morgan, an American woman in the 1950s, a real-life psychologist, artist and academic partner to Professor Henry Murray, with whom she co-directed the Harvard Psychological Clinic? That’s a very powerful position as a woman.
I read it and as I did my research, I felt so protective of her because she is really one of the brilliant unsung heroes of feminine psychology—she was Carl Jung’s muse. She came from a very wealthy family. She wasn’t encouraged to be educated, she was encouraged to marry well, and she rebelled against that. Even with her stature, even being an equal to Henry Murray—together they devised the TAT [Thematic Apperception Test] and they were asked by the CIA to do these tests on Harvard students—she
Off-screen, Wallis considers meditation and journaling essential practices for her career and motherhood.
was never given the proper credit. Again, another flawed character. She was so led by her passion to understand the human psyche. She made some tricky decisions; they tested on these young students, and one of them became the Unabomber. These psychological tests were very aggressive, created to see how far you could push someone. It’s another thing to look at your society and believe that you are safe among your peers, among the people that you trust, especially in school environments. That was a terrifying aspect of the script, that they were so much closer than we think to the betrayal of our society. We are complicit in creating some of these monsters, and so we have to look at the way we live our lives and the choices that we make and the responsibility we have to every person in our society to make sure that they don’t lead to the outcome of our film, Unabomber.
She’s not only a powerful woman in history, but also one who identified a schizophrenic person who went on to become the Unabomber.
I think there was deep shame about her role there, too. There was deep care for her students and the people that she put through these tests, but there was ego. There was a desire to satisfy an academic curiosity. The moral conflict you feel throughout the whole film is like, there are good people doing a bad thing, and it leads to something terrible. It’s going to speak to a lot of people, because it talks about the pressures of the time, the pressures of a society. And out of those pressures there are these rogue circumstances that happen, and we all have to take slightly more accountability for the people around us and for our communities to make sure that they don’t happen again.
Did part of you wonder if those tests hadn’t been done, would he have become the murderer that he became?
I think that there’s a predisposition to going in that direction in your life. I’m a person who believes the body keeps a score, that when trauma happens in youth and it’s not dealt with, it shapes the rest of your life. He
Wallis stars in the new action thriller Mutiny, alongside Jason Statham.
ended up being such a prodigy, and he got into Harvard so young, and it could have gone in many different directions, but no doubt the pressure of that environment was one of the factors that led him to be curious of a different way of life. I can’t say it was the direct cause, because I’m sure he was already predisposed to that kind of behavior, and he didn’t get the help he needed. So, then you pivot into an action film. Mutiny with Jason Statham is an intense tale of greed, betrayal and vengeance, which is Statham’s signature genre. You managed to make your role powerful and elegant. How was it, preparing for this role, and also playing this very physical part?
In Hollywood’s current climate, few stars can command a global cinema release. Usually things get a finite window,
The gods of cinema. I love that. Is there a role that you haven’t played that you’d like to play?
There are so many. At this point, I’m just trying my hardest to honor the feminine in all their glory and play women who are strong and dynamic and intelligent. Forces to behold, like the women I know in my life.
You’ve described acting as requiring complete presence. Presence is a pillar of Buddhist philosophy. What mindfulness practices do you do? Do you have any spiritual exercises to arrive at that place where you can be fully present when you’re in a scene?
I’m a real believer in the mind-body connection and spiritual alignment, that you attract what you feel inside. I do meditation and journaling. I do purged emotional writing. I just try to align. I’ve had to incorporate not only
“The advice has always been to do the work first. Plant the seeds of your life, and watch the garden grow. I’m so grateful that the people I’ve met have guided me to seek deeper healing and deeper growth. Surround yourself with good, healthy people.”
and they’re on the streamers. This is an opportunity to work with somebody who could still command that global release. I was so excited just to have the opportunity to collaborate with Jason, whom I know through his wife, Rosie, and he’s a lovely man. Also, what I loved so much was that the character wasn’t written as a love interest, she was written as an equal to the man. There was no trope-ish character like femme fatale.
That’s something you don’t see in Hollywood very often, especially in an action thriller.
It was such a relief to read that. That’s how I am in my real life. We shot off the coast of Malta. We sailed to Africa for 10 to 12 hours a day. We’d shoot on the boat, on location. The antithesis of AI. We were on practical sets. We had waves, the best stunt teams in the world. It was something that had never been done. It was a very hard shoot, but it was real old-school filmmaking, and I think that’s what you see onscreen and you feel—the fact we got it made was almost impossible just because of the weather. It was just very difficult to do. I’m naturally sporty. It keeps you so in the moment when you’re using your body as a tool like that. We had no time to rehearse. Everything you see me do they were like, We have five minutes left. There’s a swell coming, and the boat is going to rock and we won’t be able to shoot, so what can we do? Grab the gun, shoot the guy, run down the stairs. It was wild. So, it was one of those times where you leave it to the gods of cinema. None of us had an idea that it would come together at all.
my physical wellness, but my emotional wellness and my mindfulness in order to survive in this industry. I’ve always been obsessed with Carl Jung, and the shadow self and looking into those aspects of yourself and bringing them up, and individuation. I have a wonderful functional medicine doctor in Los Angeles called Dr. Habib Sadeghi. He’s written a book called The Clarity Cleanse Here in New York, I’ve just started working with Dr. Frank Lipman.
That must be preparing you well for motherhood. What is the best advice anyone has given you as of late about motherhood?
I’ve had so many wonderful, sage women giving me advice. But I just feel like the investment I made in myself, in my spiritual self, in my emotional, physical self 10 years ago, has given me the groundwork to ensure that my child will come into a safe and stable, loving environment. I think the advice has always been to do the work first. Plant the seeds of your life, and watch the garden grow. So, I’m just so grateful that throughout my life and especially in the last 10 years, the people that I’ve met have guided me to seek deeper healing and deeper growth. Surround yourself with good, healthy people and your journey will be good and healthy, I hope.
What are some pillars of wellness that you’ll never compromise on, and why?
I try to eat well, of course. I give myself permission to enjoy my food. If you can sleep, hydrate, move your body, think good thoughts and love yourself, it manifests in your body, your health and your bloodwork. I’ve seen it in myself.
Ross Bleckner
THE ARCHITECTURE OF LIGHT & LOSS
Inside the Springs studio of painter Ross Bleckner, whose two-person Guild Hall show, Never The Less, doubles as a career-spanning study in abstraction and an elegy for his late partner, Eric Freeman.
BY RAY ROGERS
“Don’t mind him—he always barks at new people,” Ross Bleckner calls out, making his way from the pool at the far end of his property to greet me at his home studio. Julius, his wire-haired dachshund—who looks like a little old man—keeps careful watch over our two hours together, never letting Bleckner out of his sight. He’s always kept dachshunds in tow (“I’ve had many of them, one after the other—I love them”); even his welcome mat has an illustration of an elongated wiener dog.
Hundreds of tubes of oil paint clutter the tables inside the cavernous, 4,500-square-foot studio, crinkled to varying degrees—Titanium White, Granite Gray, Transparent Orange—beside cans packed with brushes of every size. Stretchers with large-scale oil-on-linen works line the walls. An archive room holds binders and scrapbooks of inspiration: notes, cutouts, quotes clipped from the Times When Bleckner found this property, it was derelict. The artist Ibram Lassaw, a metal welder, had bought 45 acres here in the 1960s for $250 an acre, to avoid having neighbors. “There was a tiny little house right there and a tiny little studio,” Bleckner says. No one had lived there in 10 years by the time he took it over— Lassaw died, his wife died, and the daughter, whose godparents were Willem and Elaine de Kooning, didn’t want it either. “It looked like Vietnam,” he says. “Every tree—the canopy had to be raised because the vines were killing it.” When he rebuilt, his architect reconstructed the fireplace’s dramatic flue to replicate Lassaw’s original.
He’s been on this spot in Springs since 2019, the year he built the studio— and he never really left. The property sits just down the road from the PollockKrasner House, where Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner made some of the 20th century’s defining paintings. COVID kept him
there through 2020 and 2021; he stayed nearly four years. He’s since purchased the neighboring plot and turned the house on it into an informal residency, two studios and two bedrooms, hosting young artists by word of mouth. “It’s nice for me to have some creative energy around,” he says. “Not just be alone in my studio. It has to be the right fit.”
For years, the person filling that space beside him wasn’t a young painter in residence, but his partner of three decades, the artist Eric Freeman.
They’d lived together for years at a Sagaponack beach house once owned by Truman Capote, which Bleckner had heavily renovated. Neither wanted to stay once it came time to leave the city. The area, he says, looked completely different when they first arrived: “It almost looked like Fire Island, beach houses from the ’70s. But they all got knocked down for 40,000-square-foot mansions. It was noisy.” They found this place in Springs by accident, through the General Store: the seller, Lassaw’s daughter, would only sell to another artist. She called Freeman. “He called me and I came that day,” Bleckner says, “and I said, OK, I’ll buy it. It was just property, really, with a falling-down little house.”
Freeman is still everywhere here—and not just his works placed prominently in the home’s living room. Searching his phone for a photo, Bleckner mentions that today would have been Freeman’s 56th birthday— he’d posted a tribute on Instagram that morning: Freeman with one of their beloved dachshunds in his arms. “Even my hidden folder is just things I don’t want to see every time,” he says. “Like Eric is in my hidden folder. He was my partner for 30 years. He was beautiful.” Sometimes a car pulls up the driveway and, for a moment, he feels relief and joy, thinking
Ross Bleckner, “Gratitude to Old Teachers,” 2023
Courtesy of Ross Bleckner and Petzel Gallery
it’s Freeman. Then he remembers. Freeman died of an accidental drug overdose in 2021.
Bleckner is honoring Freeman’s creative output posthumously with his two-person Guild Hall show, Never The Less, up through October 25, an effort that’s been hard both emotionally and logistically. In the haze of grief, Bleckner let the police take Freeman’s laptop before he could trace the locations of his partner’s art; with no will, the computer went to a father Freeman “didn’t have any relationship to,” Bleckner says with a sigh. He’s been painstakingly recovering the paintings ever since. “Now I’m finding them slowly,” he says. “And I have enough to do a show.”
Asked what he wants people to understand about their years together, now that Freeman’s work hangs beside his own, Bleckner pauses. “Grief is just such a mysterious, elusive feeling,” he says. “You just don’t know when it’s going to happen. It’s still happening.” He could be walking down the street and start to cry. “My life was arranged so that Eric would live longer—he’d be here when I’m not. He wasn’t supposed to die before me. So it was kind of a shock, and still is.” He built this studio to be winterized, he says, so he could stay through the cold months. He doesn’t. “Because Eric’s not here.”
The Guild Hall pairing, Eric Freeman: The Volume of Color, is Bleckner’s attempt to make sure Freeman gets his due. Freeman came from a modest family—his parents were teachers, and he’d gone to Stuyvesant High School—with no clear sense of what he wanted to do until Bleckner saw something in him. “I just knew he was an artist,” Bleckner says. “It was his sensitivity, the way he looked at things.” He sees their work less as opposites than as variations on the
same subject. “His work was about light and my work was about light,” Bleckner says. “My work is a little darker than his, so he was the light. I was like the dark and light.”
He doesn’t hesitate when it comes to what he wants people to take from seeing the two bodies of work together.
“I thought he was a much better painter than I was,” he says. “His paintings had his soul in them and it translated through light—moving light, inner light, surface light... I just want him to be remembered. He wasn’t that well known, because he didn’t want to be.”
It isn’t the first time Bleckner has made work in the shadow of loss. His father died of cancer, and in the 1980s and ’90s he lived through the AIDS crisis firsthand—15 years as president of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA). “That’s actually when I was the most social,” he notes, “because I was responsible for raising money.”
Looking back on the cell paintings that period produced, he’s clear-eyed rather than pained: “They were actually very illustrative. They were hardcore. They weren’t decorative at all.” Some of his work is more decorative—“the flowers and all that shit”—but the cell paintings belong to a different, more conceptually grounded strain. “I actually see myself as a conceptual painter,” he says, “by the range of what I’m trying to do.”
That range is on full display in his studio today, with a cluster of works that will be shown at his show at the Petzel Gallery in Manhattan this September, in which cells, brain scans and organs recur as motifs. “These are all bodyrelated,” he says of one painting, gesturing at arteries and veins rendered around an absent heart. “It has a lot to do with flowing around that beating thing.”
He also turns to the masters, riffing off their work as source
Eric Freeman. Above: Eric Freeman, “Beach Lane,” 2004
material rather than working from life. “That one’s a Manet,” he says of a large canvas leaning against the back wall, his own variation worked up from the original as a starting point. Nearby hangs a “ghost from El Greco”—one of the master’s robed figures, the robe itself left unpainted, leaving only the form it once concealed. The effect is unsettling: a silhouette hollowed out, more X-ray than portrait, as if the robe had simply evaporated. A third canvas riffs on Matisse, dancers layered ghost-like into the composition. He started out wanting to work like Mark Rothko, he says—not to mimic him but chasing the same idea: that “painting can be expressive of feeling.”
That search is most visible in a canvas he has been circling for two years: an attempted wall of rocks reaching into the sky. “The rocks aren’t rocky enough,” he decided. To fix it, he painted the molecular structure of rock right over the image, turning the whole thing into what he calls “a ladder to heaven.” Though he admits, “I don’t believe in any of that shit anyway. But it’s OK if my paintings do.”
It’s a striking admission from an artist so often described in spiritual terms: The transcendence isn’t his—it’s the viewer’s, and he’s simply willing to let it in. “The transcendent quality is that they are looking for it,” he says. “I’m not religious...spirituality to me isn’t about something organized. It’s really about humility and kindness.” Even though he doesn’t like to admit it, all of his paintings are about trying to get to heaven, he says. “I know I’m not going there. I know there is no such thing, but in visual language it’s a beautiful effort to me.”
he was young. He started reading obituaries at 19, in art school—“it’s a Buddhist thing to remind yourself that time passes fast,” he says. “There’s a humility to it, that we’re just specks in a big cosmos.” The impulse, he says, traces to something more personal than doctrine: a lifelong anxiety, oddly paired with sociability. “People scare me,” he says, “which is why a lot of people become artists. You don’t have to deal with people, and who you are is read through a scrim, which is the canvas you hold in front of you.”
Bleckner is one of the most celebrated painters of his generation. At 45, he became the youngest artist ever given a mid-career retrospective at the Guggenheim—a distinction that still stands three decades later. And yet he doesn’t feel like he’s arrived anywhere. “I don’t feel like I’m at a point in my career,” he says. “I feel like I’m just getting started. Like I’m an emerging artist, and I have a lot to prove to myself.” That urgency, he admits, is also what makes him a workaholic.
Studies for a new painting sit stacked below the larger canvas nearby— not experiments, he says, but confidence-building. “Not every artist, but some artists actually work on their confidence. I just don’t have it right away.” Whether he likes his own work is another matter—the answer isn’t a simple yes. “My insecurity is my insecurity,” he says. “I feel good but not always...I don’t know if I can or can’t, and that’s also not for me to decide.” He’s made peace with the odds: “I always say, just assume 50 percent of people don’t like it and 50 percent do.”
That same searching continually sends him back to meditation. “I’m getting back into it. I was lapsed,” he says. A few years ago, he spent a week in silence at Upaya Zen Center, a retreat in Santa Fe led by Roshi Joan Halifax. The first days were rough. Halifax set him straight: Nobody there was thinking about his meditation. “They’re deep into their meditation. They don’t even notice you,” she told him. His mind slowed down after that. Does it change how he works? “It does,” he says. “The perspective of Buddhism is a loving perspective. it’s just about watching how your mind works.”
That awareness of time passing has been with him since
That math gets harder when the audience is a home one. Never The Less, he admits, feels “scary” in a way his overseas shows don’t. “If I have a show in Germany, I go for the opening and I don’t know anything—they’re speaking German.” Here, there’s nowhere to hide. “I feel like if everyone doesn’t like it, I’ll see it, I’ll know.”
If anything, he leans into the not-knowing rather than away from it. “None of my ideas are definite,” he says, “and I like that sense of ambiguity.” It’s why he cleans his own studio each morning rather than leaving it to an assistant: “I want to start every day with freshness and my mind clear.”
Today in that studio sits a scale model of the Guild Hall
Ross Bleckner, “Untitled,” 2007
galleries, filled with miniatures of the works that will hang there: major canvases spanning his career, alongside some 200 smaller studies that have rarely, if ever, been shown, organized by decade—a lifetime, laid out in miniature, waiting to be judged all at once.
He has a self-deprecating sense of humor—even his young studio-mates want to know if this profile has captured it. Noticing a bouquet of white dahlias decaying, wabi-sabi style, on the living room table, he doesn’t miss a beat: “I’m a decaying flower!” It’s a joke, but not an idle one—his flower paintings carry the same idea. “They’re fun to paint, and they’re beautiful,” he says. When I suggest there’s something ephemeral in them too—that you appreciate a flower because it won’t last—he agrees. “They have to do with life. They’re babies, they bloom, they evolve all in a very short period of time. It really has to do with transiency.”
He’s in his “civilian” clothes today, a Sunday off from painting: steel James Perse T-shirt, gray shorts, tortoiseshell glasses framing a face that looks younger than his 77 years. He credits genetics: “My mom’s Italian,” he notes. One of his artists-in-residence, Joey Cocciardi, pokes his head out in nothing but a bath towel, before returning fully clothed to take our photo—offering styling notes of his own: “You need just a little zhuzhing up first—roll up those sleeves,” he says.
Aging, Bleckner admits, has gotten harder to accept. “It’s gotten worse. I’ve gotten older. I guess I’m an ageist. I hate it. You have an inner age and an outer age. My inner age is 28.” No one believes his real age, he says. “I still can attract young boyfriends. I think you just have to make your personality better as you get older.” He’s not on Grindr, though, he’s quick to clarify: “My boyfriend would freak.”
His current partner, Jesse James Thompson, is a 30-year-old artist; they’ve been together almost three years, and he’s the inspiration for a new painting, “Jesse in His Speedo”—a dark, curved form rising through sweeping ribbons of white and granite gray, thin threads of red, yellow and blue cutting across the canvas.
But the vanity has its limits, and its humor. “Aging sucks,” he says. “You know what they say—aging isn’t for the…” He trails off, fishing for the word. “Faint of heart,” I offer. “I’m faint of heart.” It’s the old Bette Davis line, more or
less: “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” He claims the title happily: “I’m a sissy. And I’m a crybaby.” He describes, halfjoking, the exact point at which he’ll call it quits, once his skin loses its tightness: “Then I’m just going to go to Zurich.”
If Bleckner has made peace with his own mortality, he’s also made a project out of what comes after him, with his new residency program—not just for tax reasons, he jokes. “These are the artists you should be writing about!” he says of Cocciardi, an interdisciplinary artist whose layered work explores the natural world, and Max Bennett, a young Australian whose lifelike drawings could pass for photographs. “He’d never painted before he came here— these are his very first paintings.” They are knockouts.
Bleckner studied at NYU and CalArts, 50 years ago now, alongside classmates like David Salle, with whom he’ll reunite in conversation at Guild Hall on August 20. Asked how those conversations have changed, he laughs: “Then we were all excited about getting to New York. Now we just sit around and bitch about what’s not happening.” He still teaches at NYU each spring. “I teach and they all want to know: what does it take,” he says. “It takes a lot, but more than anything it takes persistence.”
He’s as busy as ever—beyond Guild Hall, there’s an opening at Aspen’s Baldwin Gallery, where he was headed the next day, the September solo show at Petzel, and a works-on-paper exhibition this August at Madoo Conservancy featuring material he’s never shown before. “Nobody ever asked, so when they asked, I did it,” he says.
For all this activity, Bleckner isn’t tuning out the moment he’s making it in. The title of the big Guild Hall show itself carries a spirit of defiance: Nevertheless, he persisted. “We live in such a difficult time now. We have an evil government,” he says. “The wealth is obscene. If you can make $10 billion, that’s enough. You don’t need to make $450 billion.” Still, he says, the point holds: “The world sucks, but nevertheless I want to make my paintings. And nevertheless, there are still people who are trying to put something beautiful, something meaningful, something with feeling into the world. So Never The Less has to do with: I hate it all, but nevertheless, I’m going to try not to.”
Bleckner and Freeman
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Chad Smith
KEEPING TIME
The Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has found a different kind of rhythm in Montauk, where he’s channeling the lessons of his own music teacher into a foundation built to give other kids the same chance.
BY JENNY LANDEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS
Chad Smith’s music barn sits behind his home overlooking the bay in Montauk—a place he never set foot in until he met his wife, Nancy, who spent childhood summers here. When they came to look at the property, the house itself wasn’t much to look at. The open water, the privacy and the light won him over instantly. Smith grew up on a lake in Michigan, and later lived on the beach in Malibu. His father had a saying: “The scenery is always changing.” Water, one way or another, has followed him his whole life.
These days, it’s not just water. It’s Nancy, their kids, the dogs, and a cat named Lulu, who comes and goes as she pleases and—in Smith’s words—has “completely figured life out.”
For nearly four decades, Smith has driven the rhythm section of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But increasingly, his attention is on something else: the Chad Smith Foundation, which he built around a simple fact of his own life. He started playing drums at age 7, without ever taking a private lesson. Everything he learned came from public school music class—and without it, he doesn’t know if he’d have graduated. The foundation, partnered with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and run alongside his brother Brad and nephew Lewis, exists to make sure other kids get what he got: a teacher who shows up every week, an instrument in their hands, and somewhere to go. As Smith puts it, if he can help another kid find what music gave him, “that’s a pretty good legacy.”
PURIST: You’ve spent your life pursuing connection through music. What inspired you to create the Chad Smith Foundation?
CHAD SMITH: I’ve been playing drums since I was 7 years old, and I was incredibly lucky to discover what I loved so early in life. Music chose me. My older brother played guitar, and I grew up listening to his records, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Those drummers became my heroes, and I knew pretty quickly that this was what I wanted to do. Music education is often treated as extracurricular, yet for so many people it becomes identity, purpose—even
survival. Why do you think music matters so deeply?
Music is universal. I don’t know anyone who truly doesn’t respond to it. I’ve been fortunate enough to travel the world with the Chili Peppers, and whether we’re playing Japan, Bosnia or South America, people connect. It doesn’t matter what language they speak. For a couple of hours, they’re completely present. They’re sharing something joyful together.
That’s a beautiful thing, especially now when the world feels so divided. Music creates a human connection that crosses every border. That’s also the heart of the foundation. We want kids to experience that connection, not just by listening to music, but by making it.
How does the foundation turn that philosophy into action?
We’ve been fortunate to receive donated instruments and equipment through friends and companies I’ve worked with throughout my career, but we quickly realized that gear isn’t enough. The real key is great teachers.
Kids need someone who’s there every week, someone who inspires them and keeps them coming back. So we’re investing in teachers, helping college students earn credit while they teach, and creating opportunities through organizations like NAMM [National Association of Music Merchants] and Live Nation. The goal is consistency, because that’s what builds trust.
When kids have a safe place to go after school—where they can play music, make friends and be creative— amazing things start to happen. We also offer scholarships that support students through college if they want to pursue music, whether as performers, producers, engineers or educators. We started with the University of Michigan, I grew up in metro Detroit, and the University of Minnesota, where both of my parents went to school. We’re still growing. It’s a marathon, not a sprint, but every year we’re able to do a little more, and that’s incredibly rewarding.
We live in a world of constant digital distraction. As a parent yourself, what do you hope young musicians gain from simply playing together in the same room?
First and foremost, it has to be fun. That’s why we
Smith at home in Montauk
say you don’t work music, you play music. When you’re young, you want that first experience to be exciting. You meet other kids who love the same things, you start a band, you make terrible demos together—that’s part of the magic.
Technology is amazing, and I love electronic music, too. But there’s something irreplaceable about people playing together in the same room. You learn to listen, communicate and support each other. That’s where friendships are built, and that’s where the music really comes alive. And honestly, I’d love to see more young rock bands. There’s always room for the next generation to come along and surprise us.
Drumming looks intensely physical, but it also seems deeply meditative. Is it athleticism, therapy, spirituality or all of the above?
Definitely all of the above. Physically, you have to be an athlete to play the way I do. I’ve always loved the power of rock drumming and what it brings to a band, but to sustain that energy for two hours onstage takes preparation.
When I was in my 20s, I’d party all night and the show would interrupt the party. Now it’s the opposite. Everything revolves around performing at our best— how we sleep, what we eat and how we train. We joke that we’re in the Chili Peppers’ “boring years,” but we take our live shows seriously because we owe that to the audience.
I remember seeing you after a concert with ice packs wrapped around your wrists. It looked like watching an athlete recover after a game.
That’s exactly what it is. People don’t always realize how physical drumming is, especially with the way our band performs. There’s a lot of movement and a lot of energy. But beyond the physical, there’s something deeply spiritual about playing with musicians you’ve shared a lifetime with. When we’re completely locked in onstage, there’s a connection that’s hard to describe. The audience feels it, too. It becomes an incredible exchange of energy.
Flea [the Chili Peppers’ bassist] and I even have a name for those moments; we call it “drooving.” You’re grooving so hard you’re practically drooling. You’re completely immersed. Nothing else exists. Those moments don’t happen every day, which is exactly what makes them so special. For me, there’s no better feeling.
You’ve lived a remarkably loud life professionally. What brings you quiet now?
Well, not the tinnitus. [Laughs.] Seriously, though, I’ve learned that balance is everything. People assume I’m loud because of what I do, but I’m actually pretty introverted. I love being around people, but I also need time to recharge. I love being home with Nancy, our kids and our animals. Life can be incredibly stimulating when your job puts you in front of thousands of people, so being able to step away from that is important.
We’re sitting here in your music barn overlooking the bay in Montauk. What was it about this place that made you want to call it home?
I’ve always been drawn to the water. I grew up in Michigan on a lake, and we lived on the beach in Malibu. There’s a real energy to being near water. Montauk has that same feeling. The light is extraordinary, and there’s a creative spirit here that’s drawn artists for generations. We only spend a few months here each year, which makes everyone appreciate summer that much more.
It seems to encourage people to slow down.
It really does. You walk outside, look at the water, and everything settles down a little. That’s important for me because my life is usually the opposite of quiet. When I’m here, I can make music, spend time with my family, take the dogs out and just be present.
If you’re fortunate enough to be part of a community like this, I think it’s important to give something back. We’ve supported the Montauk Skate Park, local projects and charity events over the years. Whether it’s here or through the foundation, every little bit matters. chadsmithfoundation.org
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer for nearly four decades began playing at age 7.
Jim Bennett
After years with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, Klinghoffer is working on a more personal sound with A Drop in the Ocean, his fourth album as Pluralone.
UNSUNG GUITAR HERO
After two decades helping power Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, Josh Klinghoffer releases his fourth solo album, while learning to watch his mind.
BY JENNY LANDEY
Josh Klinghoffer started playing guitar in constant motion, disappearing into the sound, because he was shy. “It wasn’t ‘me’ anymore,” he says. “It was the guitar.” That instinct has carried him from a quarter of the creative unit in Red Hot Chili Peppers to a supporting role in Pearl Jam, through a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction he still calls “something of a technicality.” These days, he reads 15 books a year, meditates with the Waking Up app and goes to therapy twice a week—less in pursuit of answers than in the practice of paying attention. Fresh off performances with Chad Smith and Andrew Watt, and with A Drop in the Ocean—his fourth album under the solo recording name Pluralone—out now on Org Music, Klinghoffer is in one of the more active stretches of a career defined by movement.
PURIST: Watching you play recently with Smith and Watt at a performance in East Hampton, there’s something almost hypnotic about the way you move with the guitar. It feels like an extension of your inner world. Has music always been that immersive for you?
Josh Klinghoffer: I think it started because I was incredibly shy. Before you’re performing for people, playing music is a completely different thing. I developed this very kinetic way of playing where the guitar became the thing you were looking at, not me.
Even during my years with the Chili Peppers, where so much energy was required onstage, I felt like if I could turn movement into something engaging for the audience, I was doing my job. Maybe there was some psychological thing I was working out, but it’s always been genuine. If I’m having fun, you can tell. If something’s wrong, you can tell that too.
Your new album A Drop in the Ocean is stripped down to just you and an acoustic guitar, a departure from the multi-instrumentalist approach you just mentioned. What made you want to pare everything back this time, and did that change how you approached songwriting itself?
I felt like I’d made three albums that were more fullband sounding. This time, in an effort to strip things down to more of the essential elements. I wanted to create an album that felt smaller and more like one person making it, which it is. I am far more interested in hearing a person these days, rather than a product or production.
You’ve lived inside two legendary bands, Red Hot Chili
Peppers and Pearl Jam. What stands out to you about how each approaches creativity and collaboration?
My role has been different in each band. With the Chili Peppers, I was one quarter of the creative unit. With Pearl Jam, I’ve been much more in a supporting role.
What’s interesting is how much continuity there is between them. The Chili Peppers took Pearl Jam out on one of their first tours in 1991, and Pearl Jam absorbed a lot from the Chili Peppers as a touring band. The crew culture, the way things are organized, even some of the backstage language, it feels eerily similar.
Where they differ is in how they approached their careers. The Chili Peppers continued pursuing radio and younger audiences, while Pearl Jam focused more on their live community and fans who had already been with them for decades. When you’re onstage with Pearl Jam, you feel that history. Many people in the audience have been coming for 30 years and now they’re bringing their kids.
You became the then-youngest inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at age 32. Looking back, what does that milestone mean to you now?
I happened to be a current member of the Chili Peppers when they were inducted, and I was grateful they included me. But I never felt like the work that earned that recognition was mine alone. Success has always been a funny concept for me. When I was 17 and becoming friends with musicians I admired, I remember thinking, I’ve made it. That already felt like success.
Now I still have days where I think I’ve accomplished very little, and other days where I can look back and feel genuinely proud of what I’ve done. I think that’s probably just part of being human.
Music has the power to regulate emotion, create connection and heal. What does making music do for you personally?
Escape. It’s always been an escape. These days I spend so much time writing and recording that I’ll realize I’ve basically been listening to myself for a month straight because I’m in the studio every day. It’s also incredibly therapeutic. I’m grateful that I can create something out of thin air, escape into it myself and hopefully share it with other people. Ultimately, if you can make the world a little better through what you create, I think that’s the goal.
Pluralone’s new album, A Drop in the Ocean, is available at orgmusic.com
HAMPTONS WELLNESS WARRIORS
Purist presents a carefully curated team of the best in Western and Eastern specialists and practitioners, a legion of local favorites to supercharge physical, spiritual and emotional well-being into the summer of 2026 and beyond.
ACUPUNCTURIST
Erin McKay
Specializing in family medicine, McKay, a certified nurse practitioner, focuses on managing acute and chronic health conditions including hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes; health screenings; wellness promotion; and education. Services include health assessment and intake, acupuncture, cupping, electric stimulation, facial acupuncture, and micro-needling. East Hampton, erinmckayacupuncture.com; 917.509.3392
Kevin Menard
Specializing in traditional Chinese medicine, sports medicine, acupuncture and cannabinoid therapeutics, Menard gravitates toward modern Chinese medical acupuncture, integrating traditional Chinese medicine, trigger point acupuncture, and Japanese meridian styles, plus advanced intramuscular needling techniques. Sag Harbor, menardacupuncture.com
CHIROPRACTOR
Glen Mark
At Hallmark Chiropractic, chiropractors
Glen Mark and his wife, Nancy Mark, offer a natural, hands-on approach to healing and wellness, with a focus on maintaining proper alignment and integrity of the spine, joints and surrounding tissue. Riverhead, hallmarkchiro.com, 631.727.3795
Stephen Petruccelli, East End Sports Chiropractic
With a focus on patient service, chiropractor Stephen Petruccelli offers safe, proven procedures and the latest in chiropractic and sports medicine. He treats a wide range of conditions, using a variety of techniques and therapies to treat the origins of your pain or injury/condition. Sag Harbor, eastendsportschiro.com, 631.725.8209
DENTIST
Dr. Anthony J. Caruso
At Southampton Dental Arts, general and cosmetic dentist Anthony J. Caruso, DDS, practices a full scope of family, cosmetic and general dentistry with expertise ranging from porcelain veneers to dental implants, crowns and bridges. He provides comprehensive care in a modern and comfortable atmosphere. Southampton, shdentalarts.com, 631.283.2208
Dr. Gerry Curatola, Rejuvenation Dentistry
As the founder of Rejuvenation Dentistry, NYC’s premier biologic, holistic, restorative and cosmetic dental practice, Curatola leads a team dedicated to biologic dentistry and functional medicine health care. His holistic approach connects oral health to emotional, physical, and even spiritual wellbeing, providing transformative care to patients worldwide. East Hampton, rejuv-health.com, 631.552.5969
ORTHODONTIST
Facing the Future Orthodontics
Dr. Victor Grazina and Dr. Hailey Taylor bring advanced orthodontic solutions and proven sleep and airway treatments with a personalized approach to help you and your family improve your smile and overall well-being. East Hampton, facingthefuture. com, 631.604.2206
ENERGY HEALER
Lauren Aiyana
Spiritual life coach, energy healer and holistic mentor Lauren Aiyana offers a refined and grounded approach to holistic well-being through energy clearing and chakra balancing, a mentorship program, wellness retreats and gatherings for individuals—executives, creatives, visionaries and seekers alike—who are ready to step into deeper alignment with themselves and their lives. Her approach blends soul-
centered guidance with transformational practices that support lasting shifts from within. Hamptons, Long Island and NYC, thelightthread.com
Ashley R. Dye
Intuitive healer Ashley R. Dye is immersed in the field of alternative practices and energy work. As a natural-born empath, Dye is committed to nurturing and inspiring others into higher vibrational frequencies through Reiki, kinesiology, biomagnetism, Akashic Records work and emotion code. Sagaponack, archealingarts.com, ashley@archealingarts.com, 631.873.7488
Martha Langer
Langer guides students toward health and vitality through yoga (Baptiste Power Vinyasa, Jivamukti, Anusara, and Iyengar), meditation, breath work, healing, spiritual counseling, life coaching, color vibrance, feminine embodiment and sexual vibrance. Southampton, embraceyourvibrance.com, 646.265.4265
Zuzanna von Salm
A shamanic practitioner, meditation and HypnoBirthing teacher and curator of intentional gatherings, Zuzanna von Salm’s approach integrates ancient cross-cultural wisdom and holistic methods to cater to the requirements of individuals or groups. Sheleads guided meditations and hosts goddess circles, retreats, sound immersions and full moon gatherings. Southampton, ceremoniameditation.com
FACIALIST
Iván Pol
The celebrity facialist and creator of the cultfavorite Beauty Sandwich returns to Shou Sugi Ban House for the summer. His signature technology-driven treatments are carefully designed to sculpt and define the face and deliver a deeply restorative experience for the skin, mind and body. Water Mill, shousugibanhouse.com
Pietro Simone
Known as the “Skin Listener,” facialist Pietro Simone brings more than 25 years of international expertise and advanced skin science to create personalized, regenerative treatments that prioritize long-term skin health. His science-led
approach combines innovative technologies with meticulous manual techniques to improve the skin’s tone and texture while supporting the skin’s natural longevity. East Hampton, pietrosimone.com
Mariela Sanchez
The gifted aesthetician incorporates Eastern modalities in her skin tuneups, performing frequency facials at her studio in the Gramercy Park area and via house calls in the Hamptons. Sag Harbor, 212.960.8416
Thuyen Nguyen
Natalie Portman, Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Aniston and Amal Clooney all turn to expert skin care trainer and massage therapist Thuyen Nguyen to work his epidermal magic. In his signature InstantLift Sculpting Facial massage session, the face and the neck’s skin and muscles go through an intense process of lymphatic drainage, detoxing of all three dermal layers, pore decongestion, and improved elasticity of the skin. East Hampton, 917.797.5976
FITNESS/BODY WORK
Tracy Anderson
Creator of the Tracy Anderson Method, a dance-inspired cardio and mat exercise program that aims to build muscle and strength without adding bulk. The Tracy Anderson Method mat class (also known as “Muscular Structure”), has new weekly choreography for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels at eight U.S. studio locations. There is also a virtual platform. Water Mill, Sag Harbor, tracyanderson.com
Isaac Boots
Celebrity fitness trainer, choreographer and Broadway dancer Boots created TORCH’D, a sustainable workout that burns fat, builds stamina and achieves visible results. Kelly Ripa, Jessica Chastain, Gwyneth Paltrow and Naomi Watts give Boots credit for their superb form and increased energy. Classes are held at The HUB Friday, Saturday and Sunday through Labor Day. Bridgehampton, isaacboots.com
Gina Bradley, Paddle Diva
The founder of Paddle Diva, a waterfront wellness brand catering to all, Bradley offers stand-up paddleboarding classes, biweekly
adventure paddles, rentals, full moon paddle tours, and a kids’ camp in late August. East Hampton, paddlediva.com, 631.329.2999
Brisas
The first three padel courts in East Hampton are the core of Brisas, an unconventional sports club. Padel clinics range from beginner to intermediate to advanced, as well as intro to padel and cardio padel. There are open play, youth camp and tournaments, as well as physical therapy, IV hydration, Reiki and sound bath sessions. East Hampton, book.brisas.us, 646.305.7337
Mary Ann Browning, Brownings Fitness
Designed by Mary Ann Browning, The Browning Method utilizes cardio, strength training and proper nutrition to change your body shape. Browning offers services in private training, nutrition, massage, sports training, Pilates and yoga. This fall, the Southampton location will be offering semi-private strength training and cardio, using equipment, $35 a class, 15 people max. Southampton, browningsfitness.com
Ed Cashin, Truth Training
With over 26 years in the health/fitness industry, Cashin is the founder and president of Truth Training, a premier strength and functional fitness center offering group classes, personal training and small group sessions. Workouts are based on strength and conditioning, and can incorporate kettlebells, body weight exercises, TRX, jump rope, medicine balls, Bosu balls, rowing machines, sleds and plyo boxes. East Hampton, truthtraining.com, 631.324.5333
Corey Senese, CoreysWave
With over 20 years of experience as a surf instructor, Corey Senese gets people hooked on the positive energy of surfing and helps them connect that joy to their lives. He offers lessons for adults and kids, SUP tours and SUP-yoga, and hosts retreats, parties and events. Montauk, coreyswave.com, 631.668.WAVE
DanceBody
DanceBody transforms dance-inspired cardio and sculpting into a joyful, high-energy workout. Led by dancers-turned-instructors, the musicdriven classes build strength, endurance and confidence while fostering a welcoming sense of community. Following a mid-July Summer Social, DanceBody returns to Montauk for the season. dancebody.com
Stacey Griffith, Soulycle
Known for her infectious energy and empowering approach, SoulCycle senior master instructor Stacey Griffith leads rhythmdriven rides that balance athletic challenge with encouragement and fun. Set to dance, hip-hop and throwback playlists, her classes inspire riders to push their limits while finding joy in the movement. East Hampton, soul-cycle.com
Erika Halweil, The Life Glow Project
Created by yogi Erika Halweil, The Life Glow Project is an adventure in radiant selfexperience—breath, movement, nourishment and harmonizing with the natural world. Halweil utilizes the system and sequencing of modern Ashtanga yoga with a blend of all she has studied over the past 28 years. Offerings include individualized yoga instruction, at home or virtual, guidance on building a pranayama practice, energetic decluttering, and life balance inquiry. She teaches classes this summer in Sag Harbor. thelifeglowproject.com
Harbor Pilates
Specializing in reformer Pilates, Harbor Pilates pairs precise instruction with a welcoming community. Classes focus on core strength, posture, balance and functional movement, helping clients move through daily life with greater ease and confidence. Sag Harbor, harbor-pilates.com
Andrea Fornarola Hunsberger, Elements
Barre Fit
The founder and director of Elements Fitness
Studio, Andrea Fornarola Hunsberger is a professional dancer, musical theater performer, actor and fitness guru who designed all of Elements’s signature programming. The studio offers barre and dance fusion classes. A new class, Pilates + Sculpt, is a 55 minute Pilates mat class fused with Elements’ Signature Sculpting and toning exercises.
Sag Harbor, elementsbarrefit.com/sag , 631.604.5445
Bianka Lefferts
Owner of TREMBLE Southampton that encourages everyone of all ages and sizes to join in and “start somewhere.” TREMBLE offers a method that blends Pilates-inspired movement with slow, vigorous strength training and the sweat-inducing edge of high-intensity interval training. makeittremble.com
Ashley McGee
An East End yoga teacher and ceremonialist, guiding alignment-based yoga classes that blend mindful movement, meditation and sensory elements to create an immersive practice, rooted in an Iyengar foundation with flowing vinyasa. Montauk, ashleymcgee.yoga
Meredith Shumway, The Formula x meredith
The Formula x Meredith is a 60-minute, lowimpact workout that fuses the precision of Pilates, the burn of barre, the intensity of HIIT, and the intelligence of functional training, all driven by a beat that sets the pace, keeps your body moving with precision and power. Bridgehampton, theformulaxmeredith.com
Jimmy Minardi
A longtime Hamptons fitness coach with more than 25 years of experience, Minardi leads signature barefoot beach workouts on East Hampton’s Main Beach designed to build strength, stability, mobility and cardiovascular endurance. His Surfer Yoga classes at Mandala Yoga Amagansett and Om Yoga Montauk have also earned him a cult following. minarditraining.com
New York Pilates
New York Pilates has earned a devoted following for its signature reformer classes that blend classical Pilates with a modern, musicdriven energy. From its Abs Arms Ass workout to full-body sculpting sessions, the method builds strength, stability and flexibility. Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Montauk, Sag Harbor, and Southampton, newyorkpilates.com
Privé Padel
Bringing one of the world’s fastest-growing sports to the East End, Privé Padel offers players of all levels the chance to experience the fastpaced game at Montauk Yacht Club. Join an expert-led clinic, book a private lesson or rally with friends. privepadel.com
Taylor Anne Pearl
Movement specialist, certified Pilates instructor and certified personal trainer, Pearl believes fitness should challenge the body without breaking it down. Her signature low-impact method combines Pilates, strength training and mindful movement. Hamptons, 303.915.1558
Holly Rilinger
The LIFTED Method, created by master trainer and professional basketball player Holly Rilinger, is built on decades of female-focused training. Coaches lead you to discover new goals and form life-changing habits. From strength training and yoga to nutrition and hormone optimization, quality of life is reimagined. East Hampton, theliftedmethod.com
Nicoline Roth
The founder of NRTHRN Strong, Roth brings the Scandinavian philosophy of movement and longevity to the Hamptons through her Nordic-inspired training method. This summer, her Sag Harbor pop-up transforms wellness into a community experience with Strong and Sculpt classes, run clubs, sound healing, breakfast workouts and mindful gatherings. Classes every weekend until Labor Day. Sag Harbor, nrthrnstrong.com
Walter Savage, Tiffany Savage and Geno McDermott: Walter Savage is the co-founder and owner of Post House gym with Geno McDermott. Savage’s wife, Tiffany, is an inspired fitness teacher in Pilates and strength training. Post House combines posture-based exercise and weightlifting for ultimate fitness. Sag Harbor, posthouse.live
SLT East Hampton
SLT combines cardio, strength training and the most challenging elements of Pilates into a high-intensity, low-impact, full-body workout. The signature 50-minute method builds strength, endurance and stability in an efficient, results-driven format. East Hampton, Southampton, sltnyc.com
Valeria Talve
Lifelong dancer, breast cancer survivor and founder of The Fitizens that brings people together through movement, connection and purpose. Blending energizing workouts with community gatherings, the initiative transforms fitness into a space for healing while supporting breast cancer wellness initiatives. thefitizens.com
Taryn Toomey, The Class
A cathartic workout experience, The Class is a music-driven somatic exercise method founded in 2011 by Taryn Toomey to regulate the nervous system and release stuck energy. Each class integrates a unique combination of movement, breath, music and
sound release to create physical, mental and emotional openings. It’s designed for all levels, available both online and in person. After six years away, The Class returns to the Hamptons for a summer residency from July 14 to August 16. Montauk, theclass.com
Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee
Yoga’s power couple developed the Yoga Shanti method, rooted in Iyengar and Ashtanga traditions, while incorporating modern adaptations. They offer classes, workshops and teacher training, both in-person and online. Sag Harbor, yogashanti.com, 631.725.6424
Lisa Zaloga
Co-founder of WAVE Wellness, Lisa Zaloga has created a holistic destination where therapeutic bodywork, movement and restorative healing come together. From yoga and acupuncture to sound healing and recovery therapies, her practice is rooted in helping clients feel their best every day. Southampton, wavewellness.com
Kevyn Zeller
A master Pilates instructor, Zeller draws on decades of experience and a background in integrative physiology to lead Core Collective Sessions at KZ Pilates. Explore personalized Pilates classes that combine classic technique with modern biomechanics, and focus on emphasizing strength, mobility and alignment for overall well-being. East Hampton, kzpilates.com
MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Alex Erickson
Specializes in facial lymphatic drainage, fascia regeneration and body sculpting techniques designed to help you feel lighter, more defined, and deeply connected to your body. Through expert hands-on treatments and guided self-massage, Alex supports circulation, reduces fluid retention, and improves the appearance of skin and body contours. His approach blends wellness, education and intentional touch to create results that feel as good as they look. Alex teaches self-lymphatic drainage massage at The Formula by Meredith and in private sessions. Hamptons, info@theericksonmethod. com, Instagram: @theericksonmethod, 612.281.6978
Alexson
Alexson has worked on Olympic, NFL, NBA and MLB athletes. In 2014, he opened a mobile massage therapy business, Bonheur Supreme (“total happiness” en francais), focusing on Hamptons clients in the summer, and New York and New Jersey clients throughout the year. Alexson helps restore balance, relieve pain, reduce stress and renew well-being through therapeutic, deep tissue and holistic massage and stretch therapy. Also offered: beach massage and luxury hotel and in-home spa services. Hamptons, lexsonco.com, Instagram: @bonheursupremespa, 440.253.9766
Antonia Kay Mennis
The massage therapist has a new business, Agape Wellness, focused on babies and mothers. Antonia’s modalities include Swedish, deep tissue, therapeutic, sports, medical and pre- and postnatal massage. Southampton, 631.276.9749
Stephanie Esposito
Owner of Hamptons Massage & Lymphatics, cofounder of WAVE Wellness, Stephanie Esposito’s modalities include slow, fluid movements incorporating manual lymphatic drainage, buccal/lymphatic facials, Thai stretch, Brazilian body sculpting, deep tissue relaxation—Swedish massage, prenatal and medical massage. Sag Harbor, stephanieespositolmt.com, 631.899.3216
Masha Massage
Masha offers various modalities, including Lomi Lomi massage, also known as Hawaiian massage, a traditional healing practice that utilizes rhythmic, flowing strokes to promote relaxation and restore balance. She provides Reiki healing sessions and integrates yoga into her practice; Kundalini and Jivamukti yoga are her specialties. 917.209.8667
Heidi Shechter
Shecter’s specialties include a variety of massage and healing modalities, including deep tissue massage and sports massage, as well as energy healing, Reiki and craniosacral therapy throughout the Hamptons. 631.839.7430
Debra Townes
A coveted massage therapist on the East End who has certifications from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, Townes teams with an aesthetician who offers facials while Townes focuses on massage. 415.517.1492
MEDICAL DOCTORS / EMERGENCY CARE
Dr. Frank Lipman
A world-renowned pioneer and innovator in integrative and functional medicine, Lipman specializes in longevity medicine, crafting personalized health plans for his NYC and Hamptons clientele that focus on optimal well-being, peak performance and extended health spans. drfranklipman.com, 212.255.1800
Dr. Stephanie Marango
A bioenergetic physician and educator who specializes in the energy systems that underlie the body’s form and function, Marango’s progressive approach helps individuals access optimal health, promoting lasting shifts in body, perception, and behavior. NYC and Westchester, stephaniemarango md.com, hello@stephaniemarangomd.com
Dr. Jeffrey Morrison, Hamptons BioMed
A leader in the field of integrative and functional medicine, Morrison collaborates with STANDwellness at Hamptons BioMed, a fusion that offers personalized treatments that address the root causes of health issues, aiming to optimize vitality and extend lifespan. Southampton, morrisonhealth.com, 631.500.9021
Southampton Hospital
Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is staffed by approximately 250 physicians, dentists and allied health professionals representing more than 50 medical specialties. The sole provider of emergency care on Long Island’s South Fork, Stony Brook Southampton Hospital is a provisional Level III Adult Trauma Center. Southampton, southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu, 631.726.8200
Stony Brook East Hampton Emergency Department
As one of the few freestanding off-campus emergency departments in New York state, this facility is equipped with advanced diagnostic technologies and lifesaving treatments, including a dedicated resuscitation room; cardiac monitoring capabilities in every exam room, and specialized fasttrack treatment rooms for general, pediatric, obstetrics/ gynecology and ophthalmology patients, East Hampton, 631.638.3433
ALLERGIST
Dr. Erin McGintee
An ear, nose and throat specialist, McGintee practices both adult and pediatric allergy and clinical immunology, with a focus on asthma, atopic dermatitis, food allergies and sinusitis. Southampton, entandallergy.com, 631.283.1142
CARDIOLOGIST
Dr. John Patrick Reilly
Affiliated with Stony Brook University Hospital, Dr. John Patrick Reilly specializes in treating coronary artery disease, hypertension, high blood pressure and pulmonary heart disease, among other conditions. Southampton, doctors.stonybrookmedicine.edu, 631.702.8327
CONCIERGE MEDICAL
Dr. Temur Chowdhury
A board-certified family medicine physician, Dr. Temur Chowdhury is the founder of White Glove Medicine, a premier concierge medical service designed for clients who value privacy, efficiency and exceptional care. Chowdhury delivers world-class, personalized medical attention in the comfort of your home, estate or office. Southampton, whiteglovemedicine.com, 631.358.5058
COSMETIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGEONS
Dr. James A. Brady
Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Brady specializes in breast, hand and facial reconstructive surgery. He’e had his own practice in Southampton since 2002, opening the current location on County Road 39A in 2014. Southampton, jamesbradymd.com, 631.287.0711
Dr. Eunice Park, AIREM
As Long Island’s first female facial plastic surgeon, Park has spent the past 20 years combining minimally invasive, nonsurgical and surgical techniques to achieve optimal results. She is the founder of AIREM, a wellness brand that strives to nurture
the spirit and empower confidence through curated treatments, skin care products and an AIREM exclusive retreat. Water Mill, airem.com
DERMATOLOGISTS
Christina DeMartino, Hampton Dermatology
A New York City-trained dermatology physician assistant with over 12 years of clinical experience, DeMartino, currently practicing with Dr. Kenneth Mark, takes a holistic approach to aesthetic medicine, and educates her patients on preventive and at-home care. She offers injectables and laser treatment, and has expertise in Ultherapy skin tightening. Southampton, 631.283.0002
Dr. Lance H. Brown
A leading dermatologist with private practices in Manhattan and East Hampton, Brown is one of the nation’s foremost experts in Mohs micrographic surgery, a technique for removing skin cancers while preserving the surrounding healthy tissues. A consultation for evaluation prior to scheduling Mohs micrographic surgery is recommended. Southampton, drlancebrown.com, 631.725.1771
Dr. Kenneth Mark
Mark is an NYU-trained dermatologist specializing in Mohs micrographic skin cancer surgery, plastic reconstructive surgery and cosmetic procedures, including lasers, peels, and injectables such as Botox and fillers including Juvéderm and Voluma. kennethmarkmd.com, Southampton, 631.283.0002, and East Hampton (Tuesdays only), 631.324.4161
INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Weill Cornell Medical Center in Southampton
A partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork Presbyterian, one of the top hospital systems in the United States, this Hamptons practice provides internal medicine, family medicine, gynecology and endocrinology services, personalized to achieve optimal health. Southampton, weillcornell.org/southampton; 646.962.9920
NYU Langone Medical Associates in Westhampton
Excellent primary, plastic surgery, endocrinologic and cardiologic care and
additional services for patients aged 18 and up. Doctors provide wellness services and preventive care, conduct annual physical exams, and offer immunizations, vaccinations, and medical clearances. Westhampton, nyulangone.org/locations/nyu-langone-medicalassociates-westhampton, 631.953.4500
NYU Langone in Bridgehampton: J. Ira & Nicki Harris Family Ambulatory Care
Doctors deliver personalized and expert primary and cardiology care and compassionate pediatrics. An established team of physicians offers leading-edge treatment for a range of conditions in a newly designed office. Bridgehampton, nyulangone. org/locations/j-ira-nicki-harris-family-ambulatory-carebridgehampton, 631.386.3600
INTERNAL MEDICINE
Dr. Maryellen Benito, Weill Cornell Medicine
Specializing in internal medicine, Maryellen Benito, D.O., an internist in Southampton, is board-certified in Family Medicine and Osteopathic, Manipulative Treatment. With expertise in treating arthritis, hypertension, high blood pressure, gastroenteritis and other conditions, Benito has a special interest in family medicine, preventive medicine and women’s health. Southampton, 646.962.9920
LYME DISEASE
Alexandra Brook-Clark, ARMUR
Passionate about spreading awareness and building a strong community of support for those affected by Lyme disease and other chronic illnesses, Brook-Clark founded ARMUR, a holistic company specializing in removing toxic food and products from the home and providing a full spectrum of detoxification services. armur.health
Alana Eitman, founder, EcoTick
An environmentally responsible system, EcoTick, created by Alana Eitman, interrupts the tick life cycle where it begins and works continuously for months, helping reduce tick populations while protecting your family, pets and outdoor spaces without harsh chemicals. Hamptons, ecotickusa.com; 631.566.7061
Clinical nutritionist Tapp Francke Ingolia, founder of STANDwellness and co-founder of Hamptons BioMed, is a certified Lyme disease specialist and a DNA Life-trained genomic counselor. She focuses on blending clinical nutrition, integrative wellness practices and state-of-the-art therapies tailored to each individual’s unique biology, ensuring a customized approach to health and wellness. RN Jennifer Ford offers IV therapy. Southampton, standwellness.com, hamptonsbiomed.com, 631.500.9021
Dr. Damian Marrese
A family medicine physician with over 30 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Damian Marrese, D.O., is affiliated with Stony Brook University Hospital. His top areas of expertise are Lyme disease, obesity, hypertension and high blood pressure, and diabetes, among other conditions. Water Mill, 631.726.6073
Dr. Steven Silverman
A chiropractor, kinesiologist and state-certified nutritionist who has been in practice for 37 years, Silverman offers alternative treatment options for the musculoskeletal and neurological effects of Lyme disease. Roslyn Heights, drstevensilverman.com, 516.484.0776
OB-GYN
Dr. Louise Collins, East Hampton
An obstetrician-gynecologist in East Hampton, Collins is affiliated with Stony Brook University Hospital. She is a board-certified gynecologist with Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in East Hampton. Collins has experience treating HPV, menopausal and postmenopausal disorders, and uterine fibroids, among other conditions. doctors.stonybrookmedicine.edu, 631.329.6500
ONCOLOGIST
The Ellen Hermanson Foundation
Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s the Ellen Hermanson Breast Center offers a comprehensive patient-centric approach. Its breast health services include early detection screenings and breast cancer treatment and support. East Hampton, Hampton Bays and Southampton, ellenhermanson.org, 631.396.6400
The Phillips Family Cancer Center
Integrated with Stony Brook Cancer Center, the Phillips Family Cancer Center provides residents and visitors on the East End with specialty cancer care and direct access to experts in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Southampton, southampton.stonybrookmedicine.edu/services/cancercare, 631.638.7400
Stony Brook Cancer Center
Taking a team approach to cancer care, the Cancer Center’s highly skilled professionals include surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, nurse practitioners, nurse navigators/coordinators, radiologists and social workers. All are involved in every stage of care, for optimal treatment and recovery. Stony Brook, cancer.stonybrookmedicine.edu, 631.638.1000
Dr. Elisa R. Port
A breast surgeon who specializes in the care and treatment of patients with breast cancer and those at increased risk for breast cancer, Elisa R. Port, MD, FACS, is a chief of breast surgery for the Mount Sinai Health System, director of the Dubin Breast Center and director of the Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer at The Tisch Cancer Center. NYC, mountsinai.org, 212.241.3300
ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON
Dr. John D. Hubbell
The fellowship-trained sports medicine specialist has extensive experience in shoulder and upper arm surgery, and knee and lower limb surgery. He is affiliated with Stony Brook University Hospital. Southampton, orlincohen.com, 516.536.2800
PEDIATRICS
Southampton Pediatric Associates
Specializing in care of children from birth through age 18, a network of communitybased physicians address health care on the East End and surrounding communities, whether it’s a one-time acute event, a chronic condition or any type of health concern. Southampton, Hampton Bays, stonybrookchildrens.org, 631.283.7733, 631.728.5300
PSYCHIATRIST
Dr. Lea Lis, Hampton Insight
Hampton Insight is an all-woman practice specializing in the health and well-being of children and their families. Practitioner Dr. Lis, double-board-certified adult and child psychiatrist and assistant clinical professor at New York University School of Medicine, provides the highest quality mental health care for children, as well as help with parenting issues. She is also available to treat college-age kids and adults dealing with mood disorders, attention issues or anxiety disorders. Southampton, hamptoninsight.com, 631.460.7836
Dr. Roxanna Namavar, Pretty Healthy
A board-certified psychiatrist and fellow in the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Namavar specializes in psychiatry, and functional and integrative medicine. Services include infusion therapies, functional medicine and integrative psychiatry. 646.481.0156
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
Erica Schwartzberg
A licensed master social worker, Erica Schwartzberg practices at Downtown Somatic Therapy in New York City. Her special areas of expertise include anxiety, perfectionism, relationships, life transitions, codependency, disordered eating and trauma. East Hampton, New York City, downtownsomatic therapy.com, hello@downtownsomatictherapy.com
THERAPIST
Cindy Roseto, LSCW
Provides family and relationship therapy. Specializes in adults and children affected by trauma. in addition to individual and family therapy, Roseto also offers couples and marriage counseling. Southampton, cindyroseto.com, 415.639.9885
URGENT CARE
Dr. Mark R. Kot, Southampton
Urgent Medical Care
Board-certified in urgent care medicine, Dr. Mark Kot, who has 13 years of emergency
medicine experience on Eastern Long Island, started his private practice, Southampton Urgent Medical Care, in 2003. Southampton, southamptonurgentmedicalcare. com/3622.htm; 631.204.9600
UROLOGIST
Dr. Robert A. Munkelwitz
Affiliated with Meeting House Lane Medical Practice and theStony Brook University Hospital, Munkelwitz has expertise in kidney removal surgery, as well as treating kidney disease and prostate cancer, among other conditions. Southampton, doctors.stonybrookmedicine.edu, 631.287.8600
IV TREATMENT
ReactIVate
A range of IV drips is carefully curated to address health concerns and enhance overall well-being through hydration, immune support or energy boost. Lindenhurst, reactivateivdrips.com, 516.206.3404
Heavenly Hydration
Specializing in a comprehensive range of wellness services, including IV vitamin hydration, wellness injections and cellular health treatments, Heavenly Hydration cocktails, administered by registered nurses, feature a blend of vitamins, nutrients, electrolytes and antioxidants. Cutchogue, heavenlyhydrationli.com, 631.655.8920
MEDITATION MASTERS
David Nichtern, Dharma Moon
A senior teacher in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche tradition, Nichtern combines a contemporary, secular approach to meditation with the ancient practices and philosophies of Tibetan Buddhism. dharmamoon.com
Bob Roth
One of the most experienced and soughtafter meditation teachers in America, Bob Roth has taught Transcendental Meditation to thousands of people over 40 years. He currently serves as the chief executive officer of the David Lynch Foundation, and directs the Center for Leadership Performance. meditationbob.com
P L AY
“It’s hard to imagine that what started a decade ago as an intimate gathering of members and collectors from the area has grown into a multi-event, four-day weekend that annually draws the nation’s top car collectors and is now regarded as one of the most exclusive car events in the world,” says The Bridge cofounder Shamin Abas. “We cannot wait to celebrate our 10-year anniversary on September 19 along with a special group of brand partners, many of whom have been a part of The Bridge since its early days. We have a few surprises planned for our guests. This one will go down in history.”
Chris Jeyes
Pictured: 1952 Pegaso Z102 ENASA Lightweight Coupe
Read on for more about The Bridge X events in At a Glance.
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GRAND SLAM LONGEVITY
While pros battle for the US Open Championship trophy, everyday players are winning the ultimate prize: better fitness and nearly a decade of extra time. BY
“That’s the greatest sound in sports,” my opponent exclaimed, as I opened a fresh can of US Open Extra Duty tennis balls before our match.
Admittedly, my teammates and I are nowhere near the skill level of the players descending on New York City in early September for the US Open—household names like Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka, alongside Americans Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Ben Shelton and Frances Tiafoe, all competing for the 2026 title. But that gap doesn’t stop millions of us from watching in awe. And whether we’re courtside or on the couch, it doesn’t change our own effort, enjoyment or the benefits we get from playing the sport ourselves.
Truth be told, all exercise is fantastic for you; it’s essentially a cheat code for longevity. But some ways of moving your body might give you an even bigger boost than others, according to science. Lifetime sports, such as tennis, have been linked with lower risks of cardiovascular disease, obesity and depression. More specifically, a study out of Denmark found that tennis players live 9.7 years longer than their sedentary peers.
Yet this doesn’t mean you need to restring your favorite racket, lace up your Italian Diadora tennis shoes and attempt to prepare yourself for the US Open. Leave that to the pros who will be converging on the famed USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center when fans globally look to see who will rise to the occasion and hoist the singles and doubles trophies for the world to see.
The benefits extend beyond pro tennis players. Let’s look at the benefits for those
CHRIS MOHR
simply playing on their own local USTA tennis teams, like me
Sports psychologist Angus Mugford, Ph.D., managing director of athlete performance and operations at United States Tennis Association headquarters, suggests, “For starters, tennis delivers an unusually high return on time and effort. It delivers something many workouts don’t: integrated, whole-body fitness including sprints, stops, rotation, full body extension and reach and socialization. The weight-bearing nature of the sport is also effective at improving muscle strength and bone density.”
The other piece, outside of the physical nature of the sport itself? Tennis, a sport that can be played for a lifetime, is social by nature and can bring people together through growing communities. And it’s really a mental chess match, causing the brain to work hard by visually tracking the ball, thinking quickly on your feet and testing hand-eye coordination.
Joe Dowdell, senior director of human performance at House 120 in NYC, concurs. Dowdell has worked with Olympic and pro athletes across many sports, and notes tennis is as challenging as any. “The unique combination and motion of starting, stopping, fast sprints, changing direction, ball control and placement all make tennis challenging in positive ways,” he says. “Of course, the matches can also last for many hours in the heat, adding unique elements to the game and athletes themselves.”
Bottom line: Don’t panic if tennis isn’t your thing. It doesn’t have to be tennis. There are many other racket sports continuing to grow in popularity, like pickleball and padel. Go smash it
THE US OPEN SHORTLIST: ELITE CONTENDERS EYEING THE 2026 CROWN
Leading Men on the New York Stage
Jannik
Sinner
Italy
World No. 1
5 Grand Slam
singles titles
Leading Women on the New York Stage
Alexander Zverev
Germany
World No. 2
1 Grand Slam
singles title
This year’s US Open takes place August 23-September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
Aryna
Sabalenka
Belarus
World No. 1
4 Grand Slam
singles titles
Elena Rybakina
Kazakhstan
World No. 2
2 Grand Slam
singles titles
Carlos
Alcaraz
Spain
World No. 3
7 Grand Slam
singles titles
Jessica Pegula
USA
World No. 3
2024 US Open runner-up
Novak
Djokovic
Serbia
World No. 7
24 Grand Slam
singles titles
Daniil
Medvedev
Russia
World No. 8
1 Grand Slam
singles title
Coco Gauff
USA
World No. 4
2 Grand Slam
singles titles (2023 US Open winner)
Mirra Andreeva
Russia
World No. 5
1 Grand Slam
singles title
AT A GLANCE
Not-to-be-missed events wrap up a glorious Hamptons summer season. BY LAUREN WILLETT
AUGUST 20
Sunset Reception With Hamptons Polo House
Celebrate the new partnership between The Baker House 1650 and Hamptons Polo House at this invitation-only golden-hour gathering featuring cocktails, conversation and sustainable lifestyle vendors curated by PAZ Lifestyle. The Baker House 1650, 181 Main St., East Hampton; bakerhouse1650.com
AUGUST 22
Box Art Auction
Bid on one-of-a-kind works by East End artists at this annual benefit supporting East End Hospice. The evening features both a silent and a live auction, along with wine and hors d’oeuvres, with proceeds helping provide compassionate care throughout the community. Tickets from $100. St Luke’s Episcopal Church Hoie Hall, 18 James Lane, East Hampton; eeh.org
Southampton Arts Center SummerFest
An evening of dining and live music on the grounds of the Southampton Arts Center supports its year-round arts programming. The annual gala will honor philanthropists John Paulson and Alina de Almeida with the 2026 Champions of the Arts Award. Tickets from $1,250. Southampton Arts Center, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton; southamptonartscenter.org
G.E. Smith’s Portraits Featuring Patty Smyth & John McEnroe
Legendary guitarist G.E. Smith welcomes Grammy-nominated rocker Patty Smyth and special guest John
McEnroe for songs and behind-thescenes stories from their remarkable careers. Tickets from $196. The Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater, Guild Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton; guildhall.org
AUGUST 23
Gipsy Kings & Tonino Baliardo at The Room at The Clubhouse
Experience an intimate evening of live flamenco with the Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo. Tickets from $241. The Room Hamptons, 174 Daniels Hole Road, East Hampton; clubhousehamptons.com
AUGUST 23–30
Hampton Classic Horse Show
One of the Hamptons’ signature summer traditions returns with a world-class show-jumping competition featuring Olympic medalists, national champion hunters and amateur riders from around the globe. Nearly 1,500 horses converge to participate in approximately 200 competitions. Daily admission $25 per carload for parking. Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton; hamptonclassic.com
AUGUST 29-30
East Hampton Art Affair
Browse original works by juried artists from across the country at this outdoor fine art fair in the heart of East Hampton. Set in Herrick Park, the free event showcases painting, sculpture, photography, jewelry, ceramics and more. Herrick Park, 67 Newtown Lane, East Hampton; artfestival.com
SEPTEMBER 5
Hamptons Jazz Fest: The Meg Okura Quintet Salute the close of the Hamptons
Jazz Fest with the Meg Okura Quintet featuring saxophonist Sam Newsome. The Grammy-nominated violinist and composer brings her blend of jazz, classical and global influences to the stage for an unforgettable evening. General tickets $35, Member tickets $30, and Student/Youth tickets $20. 48 Madison St., Sag Harbor; thechurchsagharbor.org
SEPTEMBER 19
The Bridge Car Show
This invitation-only exhibition celebrates the legacy of the original Bridgehampton Race Circuit with more than 300 exceptional postwar sports and competition cars. The Bridge, Bridgehampton; thebridgehamptons.com
SEPTEMBER 20
The Bridge at Topping Rose House Enjoy brunch by Jean-Georges alongside a display of rare classic automobiles celebrating Bridgehampton’s road-racing heritage. Live jazz and cocktails complete the experience, with proceeds benefiting Heart of the Hamptons. Tickets $275. Topping Rose House, 1 BridgehamptonSag Harbor Tpke., Bridgehampton; thebridgehamptons.com
SEPTEMBER 27
Robby Hoffman at Guild Hall
A night of bold, unfiltered comedy with the Emmy-nominated comedian. Fresh off her acclaimed Netflix special Wake Up and her breakout role on HBO’s Hacks, Robby Hoffman brings her wildly original perspective to the stage. The Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater, Guild Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton; guildhall.org
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Gary R. DePersia
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Luxe Waterfront Estate on Mecox Bay
Water Mill. As you browse through a Slim Aarons coffee table book you are reminded of those moments in travel that remain with you forever like waking to the warmth of an Aegean sunrise or watching the moonlight dance across the turquoise waters of a secluded Mediterranean cove. What if that feeling didn’t require a passport? On the shores of Mecox Bay, where the Atlantic shimmers just beyond, this remarkable waterfront estate evokes the quiet glamour of Europe’s most exclusive seaside enclaves. Sequestered behind stately gates on prestigious Cobb Isle, more than 325’ of direct waterfront embrace beautifully landscaped grounds where walls of glass frame uninterrupted views of bay, ocean, sky, and light. The Euro-inspired residence encompasses 7,300 ft² with six bedrooms, nine baths, expansive limestone terraces, and a heated three-car garage. A soaring limestone foyer and a graceful staircase introduces interiors where the dramatic living room, richly paneled study, gracious salon and chef’s kitchen flow seamlessly toward the waterfront, allowing indoor and outdoor living. The primary wing features sitting and sleeping rooms, each warmed by their own fireplaces and private terrace overlooking the bay. A spa bath, gym and multiple custom dressing rooms complete the retreat, while five additional ensuite bedrooms comfortably accommodate family, guests and staff. Outside, a Murano glass-tiled Gunite pool is surrounded by more than 1,500 ft² of limestone terraces. An integrated 500 ft² pool pavilion functions also as a family room, complete with radiant heat, TV lounge, dining area, full bath, and kitchen. Mature specimen landscaping, architectural lighting, and integrated sound create an atmosphere equally suited for elegant entertaining or complete solitude. With the potential for a private dock, owners can choose to explore Mecox Bay before continuing on to various beaches. There are homes that impress, and there are homes that define an era of your life. 54 Cobb Isle offers both, a feeling you’ve been searching for all along, as if every arrival were a page from a Slim Aarons masterpiece, and every day was worthy of its own photograph.Exclusive. $12.495M WEB #934242
NUMEROLOGY
A by-the-numbers look at actress Nicole Kidman, whose hit spy series Lioness returns for a third season on Paramount +.
Years that she’s been a leading lady, in a career that has spanned more than four decades, from Bush Christmas to Moulin Rouge! and Babygirl. 43
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Best Actress Golden Globe Awards won across film and television, including To Die For in 1995, The Hours in 2002 and Being the Ricardos in 2021.
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Executive producer credits through Blossom Films, helping bring femaleled stories including Big Little Lies, The Undoing Nine Perfect Strangers Expats The Perfect Couple, Lioness, The Last Anniversary and Scarpetta to the screen.
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Years Kidman has been a frontfacing Goodwill Ambassador of UN Women, using her platform to advocate for women and children around the world.
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“Life has all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go.”
Female directors she has worked with in the eight years since publicly pledging to collaborate with one every 18 months, with the intention of creating more opportunities for women in film, in front of and behind the camera.
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Anniversary Prize recipient at the 70th Festival de Cannes— one of only eight artists ever honored.This spring, she returned to Cannes to receive the Women In Motion Award.
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Age at which Kidman revealed she is training to become a death doula after caring for her mother in her final days, hoping to eventually provide solace to others at the end of life.
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The first Australian thespian to receive the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, the organization’s highest honor recognizing a career that has made a significant contribution to the art of film.
Estimated box-office gross of films she has starred in.
Water Mill
COVETED ESTATE–BACKS TO RESERVE
Tranquil 17-acre reserve, this exceptional 8 bedroom, 9.2 bath traditional on 1.9 acres, offers over 12,000 SF of thoughtfully curated luxury. Every detail speaks of bespoke craftsmanship and modern convenience: Soaring 10’ solid birch doors, dramatic floor-to-ceiling rift oak kitchen cabinetry reaching 11’, elevator servicing all levels of the home, dedicated dog washing station on the lower level. Outdoors, enjoy westerly reserve views, a heated pool, pool house, tennis/padel or room for tennis, and an attached 2-car garage (with potential to convert to 3). Minutes to ocean beaches. $11.995M WEB# 919120
Sag Harbor Village
CAPTAIN’S ROW WATERFRONT COMPOUND
Last of its kind! Nestled along the storied Captains Row, Pierson House offers a rare opportunity to own an iconic waterfront residence that blends historic charm with modern possibilities. 134’ of private waterfront, secluded beach. The grand main house features 5 bedrooms, formal parlor, inviting living area, and a screened porch. Approved plans in place to significantly expand the main house, add a pool, garage, and waterfront deck, and potential to create a private dock. $9.995M WEB# 893891
Set on 2 fully cleared acres in Bridgehampton, ready for Fall occupancy, this fabulous estate offering 11,189± SF of refined living across three levels, blending timeless architecture with the highest-end finishes and smart home technology. With 8 bedroom suites and 10 full baths and 2 powder rooms, including expansive primary suites on both the first and second floors, the home is thoughtfully designed for comfort, privacy, and entertaining. Interiors showcase Ciuffo-crafted cabinetry and vanities, custom millwork, and premium fixtures by Waterworks, Toto, and Kohler. The main floor features a gracious foyer, formal dining room with wine, great room, living room, and an exceptional chef’s kitchen with Sub-Zero, Wolf, and a walk-in pantry, plus a prep kitchen for seamless hosting. Enjoy indoor-outdoor living with expansive patios, an outdoor grill area, and direct access to resort-style amenities. The lower level includes a theater, fitness center, steam and sauna rooms, and two additional guest suites and a walk-out atrium. Outdoors, indulge in a 20’ x 50’ gunite pool with year round spa, pool house with kitchenette and full bath, tennis court, and gas fire pit. Additional highlights include a 3-car garage with EV outlet, Control4 automation, 600-amp service, elevator, and full irrigation. Just minutes from Bridgehampton Village and ocean beaches, this estate is a true Hamptons sanctuary. $14.490M WEB# 923985
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