A Harmonia Universe Publication
Bag of Pearls
by Frank Dunne
“Tend the fire. Stop sweeping the ashes.”
Water as medicine.
The body remembers.
Aquatic Therapy · Toru Ogasawara
Water does not heal. It creates the conditions in which healing can happen. Toru Ogasawara has spent thirty years listening to what the body says when it is finally weightless.
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Each episode asks one question.
Extracts one pearl.
Not a wellness show. An intelligent conversation about what it means to live well.
The philosophy of hunger
Dr. Marco FontaineThe Okinawans do not have a word for dinner in the Western sense. We asked why.
What the body remembers
Dr. Amara OseiTrauma is not a story the mind tells. It is a pattern the body keeps. Until it doesn’t.
On not saving the world
Prof. Liang WeiThere is a philosopher I return to often. He said he would not trade a single hair from his shin to save the world.
“We cannot set our own awareness at the bottom of the list. We have to open our eyes long before the damage becomes structural.”
Frank Dunne · Bag of Pearls, Episode 0
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“I don’t write about Ikigai. I write about Ikiru — about living. The actual, messy, physical act of staying alive and intact.”
Frank Dunne is the pen name of Francesc Miralles, a writer and practitioner rooted in Yangsheng and the Harmonia method. He is the author of the Yangsheng trilogy — a three-volume exploration of the classical Chinese art of nurturing life, its traditions, and its practical application in the modern world.
Bag of Pearls is his conversation with the world. One guest. One question. One pearl. The magazine is its printed companion.
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