CONTRI BUTOR THE MAGNIFICENT TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

SACRED TOURISM: TRAVEL AS A FORCE FOR GOOD

THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC

by Pamela Fiori

WINTERING IN ASPEN + PALM BEACH

Award-winning actress, wellness warrior, creator of Pattern Beauty hair care and executive producer Tracee Ellis Ross was the perfect choice to interview cover star Tracy Anderson—she’s been an enthusiast of the Tracy Anderson Method for the past 12 years, and a healthconscious individual for many more. “At 50, to feel as fit and in my body and have a sense of wholeness and wellness that I have, it’s hard-earned,” Ellis Ross told Purist when she appeared on our cover this past winter. “At 18, I woke up with flat abs. At 50, not so much. I work out really hard, and my working out is yes, because of vanity, but it’s also because when my body is strong, my heart and mind can do the things that they want to do. I can live out my dreams and work a 15-hour day. My self-care philosophy is really around a space of wholeness and choosing compassion, curiosity and kindness over judgment and whatever the other matches would be to those words. I do practice meditation. It is not anything traditional; I don’t practice any religion, or Buddhism specifically, or anything like that. My spiritual practice is one that I have gathered through all the years of trying everything and I’ve taken on the things that work and feel the most comfortable for me. Sometimes it is as easy as me not thinking of 700 things at once while I do the dishes.”