What I've Learned In 3 Months At A Hindu Monastery
"The Arabian Sea is very vast. You are like a drop in that sea. You are part of it, and ultimately, like a rain drop hitting its surface, entirely inseparable from it."
Laure Marin de la Vallée
India travel update
I have been in India for two months. I have been not reading anyone’s social media updates. I have been not working on the audiobook. I have been not doing any content marketing. I have been not working on my podcast project.
Over the past two months in Kerala
Flying to Bharat via the middle east
Why am I leaving for India?
To educate the microbiome by exposure to the macrobiome.
And what is that, but the ultimate journey?
Let us go to the heartland
the home of the Gita's sacred science of God-Realization
And learn there
what is meant when stated
Be Ye
My first book, Auto-Immune Heresy, is available now
224 pages of essay, prose and poetry. Available as a paperback, an ebook, and an audiobook.
Auto-Immune Heresy Audiobook Preview
Step into the immersive world of "Auto-Immune Heresy," a profound audio journey that invites you to explore the depths of chronic illness, healing, and personal reclamation. Delve into the complexities of embodiment as I share my introspective musings on two decades of living with chronic immune thrombocytopenia and
Contact Improvisation, Taiji, and Self-Rehabilitation: A Conversation with Mark Young
Mark Young talks with Laure about practice, the insights and healing from his engagement of dance and Taiji, and the natural propensity of the body to spiral towards health.
Inaugural Responsive Body Podcast: Talking about Auto-Immune Heresy
In this first solo episode, I talk about the process of healing, eating for digestion, what's not in the book, and the parts of 2021-2024 that concretely moved my life towards remission.
Auto-Immune Heresy Book Launch Event
Auto-Immune Heresy collects 8 years of writing about 20 years of chronic illness. This book project is a means of re-narrativizing my life.
It follows my thinking and feeling through the complexities of embodiment.
This project is one of inscribing questions rather than alleging answers. Making a hypersigil of healing
An Auto-Immune Manifesto
from Auto-Immune Heresy
1. The transience of the body itself is holy.
2. Auto-immunity is self-defence, multifarious resistance, radical permeability, touchability.
3. Auto-immunity demands surrender, re-evaluation of what makes you human, what makes you you.
4. There is no such thing as health.
5. Auto-immunity shatters the telos upon shores
Crystal Clear Deciduous Dreams
Book slated for winter 2024. Stay tuned for more upcoming launch details, and sign up for regular updates.