The Guide to Becoming Alive | Richard Christiansen

Flamingo Estate’s founder, Richard Christiansen, invites you inside his home and to meet his friends and heroes. Presenting fifteen pleasure principles inspired by nature's wisdom, Christiansen reveals how a deep relationship with nature offers a life of pleasure and joy. Discover how to flirt like an orchid, embrace winters like a plum tree, work like wisteria, and court your shadow like the fern. Combining hundreds of images and luxurious rituals for well-being with stories from Christiansen’s own journey of awakening, Flamingo Estate: The Guide to Becoming Alive is a rousing call to reject a life of tedium and luxuriate in the radical pleasures of the natural world.

Featuring conversations with luminaries from food, activism, wellness, and the arts, including: Jane Fonda, Martha Stewart, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Jane Goodall, Alice Waters, Kelly Wearstler, David de Rothschild, Elise Loehnen, Erica Chidi, Ellen DeGeneres, Terry Tempest Williams + More