Fully Alive in the Age of Abundance
A personal journal on happiness, health, and fulfillment.
I share thoughts, experiments, and insights as inspiration for people who want to turn modern abundance into real aliveness.
We have more tools, comfort, information, and opportunity than ever. At the same time more distraction, uncertainty, and noise than our brains were built for. KULA is my public practice of finding more energy, rhythm, agency, and meaning in that age of abundance.
What is KULA?
KULA is my public practice of becoming fully alive in the age of abundance.
I write about happiness, health, fulfillment, energy, rhythm, agency, work, fatherhood, AI, Tokyo, and the small choices that shape a life.
Featured Journal
Agency Before Advice
Why more information rarely helps if your attention, energy, and self-trust are already fragmented.
Rhythm Before Complexity
The case for simple repeatable rhythms over heroic bursts of self-improvement.
Energy Before Performance
What changes when you stop treating output as the goal and start treating energy as the foundation.
The Death-Back Lens
Why a future dance with Otto changes how I think about health, work, and meaning now.
Conversations
KULA in spoken form, solo reflections, Meiji Shrine walks, and conversations on happiness, health, fulfillment, education, the future of work, and how to grow little super humans.
About Christian
I’m Christian Bareuther, based in Tokyo. KULA began as a personal experiment: how do I live with enough energy, presence, and courage in order to dance fully alive at my son Otto’s 60th birthday?