Wellness Doesn’t Need a Price Tag. Bhutan Has Known This for Centuries
The best wellness habits cost nothing. Here’s what everyday Bhutanese life teaches about wellbeing, and five practices you can start today, wherever you are.
Bhutanese Textiles
In a wooden house in Khoma, a village tucked into the mountains of eastern Bhutan, a woman sits cross-legged on the floor with one end of her loom strapped around her waist and the other anchored to a post. She has been weaving the same length of silk for four months. When she finishes, somewhere around month ten, it will become a kishuthara, the most prized kira a Bhutanese woman can own. It will likely be worn at her daughter’s wedding decades from now.