This 30-calorie drink is packed with a cocktail of anti-aging ingredients like goji berry, açai, lutein, lycopene, and blackberry. But really, what takes the cake is the fact that it tastes good. And in many ways, that is all that matters. $29.99 for a 30-day supply, www.noahsnaturals.com

Clarins Gentle Beauty Soap 

I’ve been a long-time follower of Clarins, and I’m pleased at the company’s move to greener offerings. This Ecocert-certified face and body soap is made with organic shea butter and hazelnut oil, and has a faint, yet pleasant, citrus scent. $15, www.clarinsusa.com

Surya Brasil Organic Moisturizing Hand Sanitizer

I prefer washing with soap and water, but there certainly are occasions when having a bottle of hand sanitizer comes in handy. Unlike many of its type, this one did not leave my hands Sahara-dry. Certified organic by Ecocert. $4.99, www.suryabrasilproducts.com

Aveda Green Science Replenishing Toner

Salicylic acid is an ingredient I look for in my face care products because I have very oily skin. (It helps regulate sebum production.) After washing, a couple of light swipes of the toner across my T-zone and I’m away. $39, www.aveda.com

J.F. Lazartigue Pur Vegetal Leave-in Conditioner

For times I couldn’t be bothered to have any styling product on my hair, this 100 percent botanical conditioner does the trick. The hold is minimal, but it does have a nice scent that complements whatever fragrance I’m wearing. $48, www.jflazartigue.com

WoodSprite Grapefruit-Mint Sea Salt Glow

There’s a spa I go to in New York where I always get the sea salt scrub, and quite frankly, I always come out a new man. Whenever I do not have the time for the treatment, however, I use WoodSprite’s fantastic scrub in the shower. (Nothing beats just lying down while someone does the elbow grease, but still....) $16, www.woodspriteorganicbody.com

100% Silk.

For Kahina (which gets its name from that of an ancient Berber queen and prophetess), L’Heureux sources the argan oil from rural women’s co-ops in southwestern Morocco—the only place in the world where the argan tree grows. For hundreds of years, the women of that region have gathered the tree nuts and gone through the extensive process of cracking, kneading, and extracting; it can take up to eight hours to produce one liter of oil. Many of the women at these co-ops are illiterate—but are also their family’s breadwinner. L’Heureux works closely with the co-ops to make sure the women are properly compensated, and she donates 25 percent of Kahina’s profits towards building educational and women’s rights programs at the facilities.

“The problems of impoverished women extend beyond the women themselves,” she explains. “Addressing the causes of their poverty can have a significant effect on them and their community, and can help break the cycle of poverty for them and for their children.” The line’s simple packaging (made from recycled materials like violet glass, which acts as a natural preservative) is adorned with a compilation of the women’s signatures, and many of their stories and photos are featured on the Kahina site to help foster a connection between the customers and the creators.

In the future, L’Heureux aims to expand this model to other locations around the world by sourcing a variety of indigenous ingredients from local women and by helping to foster on-site education and empowerment. Her business’s mission is simple: Women helping women through shared beauty rituals. “Even something as seemingly inconsequential as our choice of skin care can make a difference,” she says. “Women here in the U.S. have the desire and the power to improve the lives of women in need around the world, so with Kahina, I hope to provide a vehicle by which they can have an impact without making sacrifices.” www.kahina-givingbeauty.com

Mandalas are ancient and nearly universal forms of sacred geometric art, usually comprised of concentric shapes and symbolic images. They are used for many different types of spiritual practices, such as meditation, healing, initiation, teaching, and prayer. Mandalas appear in the complex patterns of Islamic art, in the knot work of the ancient Celts, in the sand paintings of the Tibetan and Navajo (Diné) peoples, and in the sacred art of Christian mystics, such as Hildegard of Bingen and Jacob Boehme.

The word, “mandala” is the Sanskrit word for circle—or center and circumference—and the essential meaning of the mandala derives from the symbolism of these two aspects of the circle. The circumference—what we usually call a circle—is a form without a beginning or an end. It is one of the most important and universal symbols in human history, representing wholeness, completeness, and the cyclical nature of life. In Black Elk Speaks, the Native-American Black Elk honored the circular essence of existence, which he recognized in many aspects of life, great and small:

Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. —Black Elk

In addition to the circumference, the circle includes the center—a powerful and sacred symbol that represents endless potential and the movement outward of the one toward the many. The center represents the seed from which the tree grows, the cell that divides to make the seed, the atoms that make up the cells, the nucleus that lies at the heart of the atom, and so on, ad infinitum. The two aspects of the circle—the potential of its center and the totality of its circumference—are embodied in the mandala’s strong central focal point and surrounding concentric forms.

In Tibetan Buddhism, mandalas are the symbolic terrain of the soul’s journey to enlightenment. The design of the mandala guides the meditator toward its center. Radiating out from the center, in concentric layers, are geometric shapes and ancient spiritual icons that symbolize different phases of initiation or levels of consciousness related to the deity. Every element of the mandala—shape, color, pattern, and imagery—represents a guiding principle or aspect of wisdom related to the lesson it teaches.

Within the Hindu tradition, the mandala takes the form of the yantra, a sacred diagram intended to guide the meditator to experience unity with the center, known as the bindu, or absolute. The center of a yantra is the undifferentiated infinite, from which all matter and spirit emanate. It is the originating point of divine consciousness, and the cosmic unity that underlies the multiplicity of the world. Everything issues from and returns to this point, expanding in concentric forms. One of the Hindu sacred texts, the Upanishads, uses the metaphor of a spider at the center of its simultaneously expanding and contracting web to illustrate the concept of the center and its relationship to the forms it manifests. Just as all of existence originates from a central point, every individual has his or her own inner center.

The widespread cross-cultural use of the mandala inspired psychoanalyst Carl Jung to recognize it as an archetype—a psychological pattern that shapes the human psyche. Jung’s research demonstrated that the mandala isn’t a form we create so much as an energy we express. The urge to create and gaze upon a mandala is a universal tendency of human consciousness just as nest-building is inherent in the consciousness of most birds. Jung saw the mandala as an expression of the human longing to be psychologically and spiritually integrated. He believed the mandala could help people connect with their deeper selves and achieve spiritual wholeness, so he used the mandala as a therapeutic tool, encouraging his patients to create mandalas in their quest to achieve their full potential.

Just as the power of the world often manifests in circles, our own power, or potential, can also be discovered in a circle. The mandala can take us to the still point in ourselves, where we can reconnect with the sacred by encountering the endless possibilities that emanate from the center.

Nature’s Mandalas

Nature is filled with mandalas. On the microcosmic level, flowers, eggs, seeds, spider webs, cross-sections of plant stems and tree trunks, snowflakes, mineral crystals, cells, molecules, and atoms are mandalas; on the macrocosmic level, planets and their orbits, solar systems and galaxies are mandalas. The human eye also has a mandalic form: The pupil sits in the center of the iris, collecting light from the outer world and projecting it inward. Even the paracrystalline form of the DNA molecule is a mandala, and when photographed from a particular angle, it’s even a square within a circle, like many Tibetan mandalas!

Create a Meditation Mandala

The mandala is a visual journey through layers of consciousness to the center, where we can experience our own potential, as well as the sacred. You can take this journey by creating a mandala as well as by using one as a meditation tool.

Before you begin, remember that anybody can make a mandala, regardless of artistic ability. Making a mandala is an expression of the patterns and flow of energy emanating from you at the time you create it. This energy manifests in color, form, and number, as well as personal and archetypal imagery.

Don’t judge your mandala the way you might critique an exercise in a drawing class! If you are creating individual mandalas in a group setting, arrange the space so that everyone has a private work area and separate materials. After you’ve created your mandala, you can share it with others, but while you are making it, it’s best to resist looking at the mandalas others are making.

What You Need

You’ll need paper and paint, colored pencils, markers, or pastels, depending upon which medium you choose. You can also use drawing tools, such as a protractor or French curve, but try not to let these tools limit the form of your mandala. If you want to create an assemblage, or collage mandala from three-dimensional objects, such as stones, shells, beads, or other items that you can collect in substantial quantities, adapt these instructions as necessary.

Center and Visualize

Close your eyes and try to enter a peaceful, meditative state. Take deep breaths and with each exhalation release any expectations of what you think your mandala should look like. Now, allow a circle to emerge from your imagination. Without judgement, allow feelings, shapes, colors, and patterns to come to you. Sit with these images for a few minutes and allow, but don’t force, them to change. Let them fill the circle in whatever way they want to, forming the mandala. When the mandala image feels complete, you are ready to begin drawing.

Create the Mandala

Open your eyes, select a color, and draw a circle by using a compass or by tracing a circular object, such as a plate. Starting at the center, fill the circle with colors, forms, and images, allowing the mandala to continue to change while you are drawing it (you do not need to be faithful to the mandala that you visualized when your eyes were closed). Try not to think too much about what you’re doing, for you are really allowing the mandala to create itself.

Explore the Mandala’s Symbolism

When the mandala is complete, use the Mandala Symbolism Chart to learn the basic meaning of colors, shapes, and numbers. Note that “number” is reflected in your mandala as the frequency with which a particular form occurs. For example, if you have eight points radiating from a shape, you would look at the symbolism for the number eight. Keep in mind that all three of the mandala components listed on the chart should be considered together, not in isolation. For example, if you have eight green triangular points, you would look at the symbolism of the number eight, the color green, and the triangle. Consider the symbolism holistically, within both the larger context of the entire mandala and of your past and present life. Also consider your personal associations with colors, shapes, numbers, and other imagery.

Meditate with Your Mandala

Once you’ve created your mandala, you can use it as a meditation tool to center and strengthen awareness. Begin by looking at the mandala from different orientations (turning it clockwise) in order to find out which one feels right. Then position the mandala at eye level by tacking it on a wall or resting it on a piece of furniture. Sit in a comfortable position, quiet yourself, and focus on the mandala. Try to keep your gaze soft, but steady. Only the mandala should occupy your mind; try not to let your concentration drift. Once you’ve acquired a strong image of the mandala, close your eyes, letting the image fill your consciousness. If the image fades, open your eyes and concentrate on the mandala again. Continue in this way until you feel your mind is still. If you practice this meditation over time, you may find that it centers you and strengthens your awareness.

Mandala Symbolism Chart

Creating a mandala can reveal the invisible forms of the unconscious by presenting them in symbolic images that we can comprehend. These symbols can connect us to hidden parts of ourselves, thereby making us more complete. Use this chart to explore some of the symbolism that might be embodied in your mandala.

Color

Red - life, energy, impulse, aggression, joy

Blue - divinity, truth, faith, loyalty, peace

Yellow - warmth, clarity, consciousness, comprehension

Green - fertility, spring, youth, renewal, paradise, envy

Orange - willfulness, drive, happiness, warmth

Purple - magic, royalty, dignity, spirituality, imagination, vanity

White - light, creation, spirit, purity, truth, initiation, peace

Black - mystery, darkness, despair, evil, gestation, germination

Shape

Circle - completion, wholeness, cycles, protection, cosmos, sacred space

Cross - conjunction, intersection, energy, fire

Spiral - evolution, involution, order, change, flow

Square - permanence, proportion, equity, balance, materiality, earth

Star - guidance, aspiration, destiny, hope, constancy

Triangle - light, fire, harmony, ascension

Number

One - creation, origin, totality, center, God, individual

Two - multiplicity, separation, symmetry, equilibrium

Three - creativity, synthesis, reunion, unity, harmony, luck, magic

Four - solidity, stability, justice, power, balance, materiality, earth

Five - totality, meditation, analysis, integration, love

Six - union, equilibrium, completion, chance

Seven - magic, mysticism, orientation, spiritual order, protection, perfection

Eight - cosmic equilibrium, renewal, stability, totality

Nine - truth, order, endurance, synthesis

Ten - totality, perfection, reality, action

Eleven - transition, conflict, excess, danger, discord, rebirth

Twelve - cosmic order, celestial influence, cycles, salvation, union of spiritual and material

All of the kits in this round-up fulfill the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) 3-1-1 policy on carry-on liquids. Meaning, they are 3.4 ounces (100 ml) or less each, and could fit in a one-quart-size Ziploc bag. (Each passenger is allowed one of these bags.) For updated travel advisories, head to www.tsa.gov.

2. Hydrate!

The dry cabin air causes dry, parched skin. “Airplanes can have as little as 10 percent of the humidity found on the ground—that’s drier than Death Valley in June!” says renowned author and travel authority Peter Greenberg of www.petergreenberg.com. Pack a small tube of moisturizer, and apply as often as you can while on the plane.

3. Recover from jet lag with sleep and water.

Like your skin, water is your best friend when adjusting to a new time zone. “One of the best techniques to combat jet lag is to stay hydrated,” says Greenberg. Before, during, and as you land, increase your water intake. Licensed acupuncturist Ted Ray, L.Ac. recommends eight ounces of water for every three hours you’re airborne. (He also suggests ditching the airline earphones in favor of noise-canceling ones.) Try to start sleeping on the local time once you land, so your body gets used to the location faster. Products containing lavender or chamomile would help you get some well-deserved shut-eye, says Kayla Fioravanti of Essential Wholesale. Rub Badger’s certified organic sleep balm ($10, www.badgerbalm.com) on your temples and your neck as you settle into bed.

4. When in doubt, pack your own.

If you’re traveling to a developing country, be wary of where you get your drinking water—you don’t want to spend your vacation in a hospital bed, after all. Greenberg recommends the SteriPen (from $89.95, www.steripen.com), which uses UV rays to destroy any bacterial microbes in your drinking water. Another option is Pure Water 2 Go (from $7.95, www.purewater2go.com). “A sixteen-ounce bottle with an advanced filter costs only about thirteen dollars and can treat up to forty gallons of water,” he adds.

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San Diego, CA

This is Hyatt’s very first eco-friendly spa situated in San Diego and surrounded by the natural beauty of Mission Bay. We love the name—taken from “The Blue Marble” image of the earth that was shot from outer space during the Apollo 17 mission—and the spa’s contemporary design, as well as its very green sensibility. The spa’s treatment menu is in digital format; skin care products are natural and organic; organic fruits and food options are on hand; low-flow shower heads are used; and even the spa linens are dyed using eco-friendly processes—to name just a few green details. Guests can reconnect with nature via one of the 21/2- to 4-hour Blue Marble Journeys of their choosing (the four offered are Earth, Water, Air, and Fire), or spend some quiet time in the outdoor Earth Garden. www.missionbay.hyatt.com

Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte

North Carolina

Welcome to the first LEED- built hotel for this luxury group (and the first for greater Charlotte, too). This isn’t your grandmother’s Ritz—this 146-room hotel boasts a warm, contemporary vibe that’s younger than what you’d traditionally find, but thankfully, not trendy. There’s a 13,000-square-foot Wellness Center where you can opt for treatments like the Green Your Body Eco-Treatment or the Techno-Stress Relief. Other eco-friendly details include: A green roof vegetated with 18,000 plants that insulates the building, slows rain runoff, and cools the air through evaporation of water from leaves; employee uniforms made of fabric derived from regenerated plastic bottles; an impressive in-house water purification and container system; a state-of-the-art air transfer system which circulates outside air into guest rooms at 60 cubic-feet per minute; a hotel Bike Valet, featuring 150 bicycle parking spaces and complimentary Trek bikes for guests to use, as well as complimentary parking for hybrid vehicles. www.ritzcarlton.com

The very existence of forests here now is a miracle, a joining of nature and man’s desire for repair, and, ecologically speaking, a very recent one. When Atlanta textile mill owner Cason J. Callaway thought about what to do with this land that he owned in the 1930s, the first thing that came to him was “Water.” For Georgia is a state with not one single natural lake. Eventually, he dammed up some rivers, which helped protect the natural watershed, and created a lake. Well, not just a lake but what is now Robin Lake Beach, the lake with the world’s largest manmade white-sand beach.

But back then, one of Callaway’s thoughts was that a lake would offer a place in pre-air-conditioning days for Atlantans to cool off during the endless hot summers. And, even more importantly, with the water that a lake—or several lakes—held, one could irrigate gardens. That was Callaway’s true passion and real mission: to create the most beautiful gardens possible, in particular, gardens that would promote and protect Georgia’s native azalea species. He’d have a place for the public to appreciate that bounty, too.

So Callaway created “green” (and pink and red and purple in spring and summer, when the azaleas bloom on many acres) where there was barren brown. Today, Callaway Gardens continues that mission for “green,” but on a level Cason Callaway couldn’t have imagined.

What visitors who now stay at The Lodge & Spa at Callaway Garden’s notice first is the vast expanse of Callaway’s pure natural beauty— 13,000 acres of it, to be precise, much of it forest. It’s amazing how fast Southern pines can grow. That beauty—so easily enjoyed on the hiking and biking trails that penetrate and encircle the property—is supported by eco-friendly hospitality and surroundings.

Though Callaway Gardens officially opened in 1952, it’s only been in recent years that the resort has been truly reinvigorated, with an eco-friendly foundation. The lodge was built in 2003 as a conference center, at a time when the Callaways (now Cason’s son manages it) decided that all new commercial buildings would have to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. So, construction of all buildings, roads, and paths took the natural landscape into account, minimizing the removal of trees and reducing the impact on the land.

Native plants were used in landscaping because of their low water consumption, and 2,507 acres of the property were set aside as a permanent preserve through Georgia’s Forest Legacy Program. Some of the many other green decisions: Callaway recycled used asphalt from old golf cart paths to create the driveways of the Lodge and Spa; it installed recycled carpet in the Mountain Creek Inn and Conference Center; and management promotes the use of alternative fuel vehicles and carpooling by guests and employees.

But the appreciation of nature is here in education, too. There is a large enclosed butterfly habitat at the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center, where butterflies in shades of cobalt blue and other tropical-fish-like hues fly; various programs at the John Sibley Horticultural Center, and the “birds of prey” demonstrations that have children and adults (even those who have seen other raptor shows) ducking when they’re not slack-jawed with fascination.

And the dining at Callaway? This is after all a place that has gardens in its name, and quite a bit of the food served in the restaurants (particularly the vegetables and herbs, and some fruit) is grown here, often in “Mr. Cason’s Vegetable Garden,” which is another place that offers plenty of workshops for children and adults. The fine-dining Gardens restaurant at Callaway carries the “Slow Food” designation, meaning it emphasizes locally grown and raised foods.

For some guests, though, the true test of a resort with a spa comes with the level of spa services. The Spa Prunifolia (the Latin name for azalea) at Callaway is on par with some of the country’s finest. The spa opened in 2007, delayed for several months because Callaway management decided on serious consultations with spa industry leaders, to create a spa that lived up high industry standards, and it’s clear they took the advice seriously. The spa is a sanctuary where services are consistent in the organic message—products are botanical-based and organic, as well as specific to the guest’s needs (say, arnica oil in a massage if you are having trouble with bruises).

Most rooms on the lodge open onto gardens with fountains. As you drift off to sleep to the sounds of gurgling water, you can’t imagine any place more restorative. The message of this place, where the land was once so desiccated, resonates. It’s never too late for healing. www.callawaygardens.com

While perhaps not quite as conscientious as the San of centuries ago, the staff at Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in the heart of the Klein Karoo, just three hours east of Cape Town, certainly make their best effort. “The ultimate goal here is to establish a fully self-sustaining area,” says Keir Lynch, Assistant Wildlife Manager at Sanbona where wildlife once indigenous to the area– including leopard, rhino, buffalo, elephant, and lion—have been reintroduced on an expanse formerly occupied by 19 farms in the Western Cape. (Sanbona is also home to 650 plant species, 160 bird species and a pride of white lion, an extremely rare species of creamy white color that is being repopulated here.)

The reserve consists of three luxury lodges: the farmhouse-style Tilney Manor, the secluded Dwyka Tented Camp, and the contemporary Gondwana Lodge replete with Sanbona’s spa, called Gondwana Retreat, which offers a range of organic treatments for bush-weary bones. All of Sanbona’s lodges are working towards compliance with the Green Leaf Environmental Standard (GLES), an environmental benchmark of best practices in sustainable tourism designed by Wilderness Foundation and launched in South Africa in early 2008. GLES measures levels of compliance in water, energy, waste, green procurement, innovation efficiency, and socio-economic development. A few specific steps being taken at Sanbona include capturing and storing rain water, installing energy-reducing lighting, kitchen composting, and the use of exotic (as opposed to indigenous) wood for firewood. (Keir Lynch tells me that both Dwyka and Gondwana have achieved 75 percent compliance with the GLES while Tilney Manor will be assessed for GLES compliance next year.)

During my three nights at Sanbona, I stayed at Gondwana Lodge in an elevated chamber with its own private deck overlooking a water-hole. At night, game would come and drink here, and I was treated to my own private safari—this was after gourmet meal with the finest South African wine, a bath in a massive freestanding tub, and a few hours’ rest under a soft, down-filled duvet. The black-backed Jackal and I seemed to have worked out an understanding: each night, he would howl at just the right time as the animals came to drink, waking me before curtain call.

Guests at Sanbona are treated to game drives through this rare landscape with rangers who know where to find ancient fossils and rock art painted by the San as long as three to five thousand years ago. These first human inhabitants of the Western Cape used the land here as a migration route as they moved from the dry Karoo (or desert) to the coastal plains. My young ranger, Marco Fitchet, took me on an expedition one afternoon to the main rock art site—a mountainous overhang between Bellair Dam and Tilney Manor where animal figures and human figures can be seen in a series of brownish-red paintings on the side of a massive rock. The San used ochre, animal fat, and likely eland blood with which to paint the figures and often told stories through their art, Fitchet says. One belief is that much of the rock art was painted by the San medicine men, or shamans, and that the images seen in the rock art paintings depict what the shaman has seen in a trance, a state he enters in order to have the power to heal.

Back at Gondwana, I am lucky enough to partake in one of Gondwana Retreat’s signature treatments, the Moor Mud Wrap treatment, at the very able hands of Julia Ellish. The treatment is considered Mother Nature’s healer for aches and pains as well as arthritis, Julia tells me. The perfect antidote for my sore muscles after climbing to see the rock art caves, I think to myself. When I depart Sanbona, I turn back from the jeep and wave goodbye to the staff, the mountains, and my black-backed Jackal whom I imagine will be howling again this evening, inviting guests to behold the waterhole and beckoning the world to see the vision of the San. www.sanbona.com