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Can You Find God in a Bikini?
About a dozen members of Secular Sabbath take a break between cold plunges at Voda Spa in West Hollywood. (All photos by Philip Cheung for The Free Press)
In a city where religion is dead, the young search for a higher power—in a sauna with Diplo.
By Olivia Reingold
09.20.23 — Culture and Ideas
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LOS ANGELES — A woman dressed in a kimono tiptoes between the tattooed limbs of about fifty influencers, musicians, and yogis lying on the floor of a spa in West Hollywood. They’re in the homestretch of a breathing exercise that’s lasted twenty minutes. By now they’ve become one organism, breathing to the rhythm of a jungle beat on the stereo, their sto…

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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