Our story

I grew up in tents in the Santa Cruz mountains, where my mother taught me the spiritual side of life from the time I was six years old. I spent decades running from all of it — building a life, a business, a farm in Missouri — until getting sick brought me back to what I’d known all along.

I still head back to California several times a year. Those trips keep me close to what’s happening there — and they’re how Eastern and Western traditions find their way to a shop in the Midwest.

— Crystal Marshall