Editor’s Letter From Lifestyle Asia September 2025 Version

A letter from Chief of Editorial Content Kerry Tinga, accompanying Lifestyle Asia’s September 2025 print version on the theme Travel and Motion.

“In spite of all the risks invovled–a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.”

Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk wrote this in her fragmentary novel Flights. In its authentic Polish, it was printed beneath the title Bieguni, referring to a sect of Old Believers who thought movement was the key to avoiding evil.

This concept captures precisely what we’re exploring in our third problem: Travel and Motion. Following the pure sequence of sections launched on this yr’s refresh–from understanding ourselves to expressing our fashion–we’ve arrived at Experiences, and particularly, how we transfer via the world past our instant areas.

Travel and Motion feels just like the final expression of freedom and luxurious for our technology: luxurious because the capability to maneuver, to decide on, to expertise the world’s infinite variations. This problem explores motion in all its varieties, from literal journey to even discovering the right place to pause and take all of it in. Because movement solely beneficial properties which means when balanced with moments of stillness.

Our cowl story with Monica Lorenzo, Director of Leisure Development at Torres Lorenzo Development Corporation, completely embodies this stability. Thanks to Philippine Airlines, which enabled our staff’s journey, we discovered ourselves on the beautiful Dusit Thani Lubi Plantation in Davao de Oro. The property’s hospitality and breathtaking setting—with artwork installations nestled among the many tropical panorama and the sound of the ocean as our soundtrack—reminded us that the most effective journey experiences typically contain discovering the right place to pause and take in a brand new atmosphere.

We’ve obtained tales about progress and presence, locations and transformations. We delve into the mind-body connection and overcoming the freeze response that may block us from seizing alternatives. Our journey tales take you from the native landscapes of Batanes to the considerate great thing about Sikkim, India, whereas photographer Gab Mejia shares insights on capturing the fantastic thing about the world via his lens. We discover the rising momentum of electrical autos; the kinetic vitality of The Fifth Wall Festival, celebrating dance and motion; and the restoration of “moving” photos in Philippine cinema.

As you discover this problem, I hope you’ll discover inspiration to your subsequent journey, or at the very least the motivation to embrace slightly extra movement in your day by day life. The Bieguni understood one thing important: that motion itself could be a type of religion. After all, the great life is never about staying put.

Welcome to our third problem.

This article was initially printed in our September 2025 Issue.

Banner picture by Paolo Torio