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The Path Less Traveled
I wish I could declare traveling as an integral piece of well-being, that it is a necessary ingredient for being whole, complete, and free. But it isn’t. A person can have a wonderful measure of well-being without ever changing locations. But I will say it can be an indication, a reverberation, or an outcome of it. Sometimes, expanding your perspective through travel can be a method toward more well-being. But it isn’t required. I cannot claim that travel is necessary for optimal health. But//and//however Travel removes you from the comfortable familiarity of the people, places, and patterns you know. Sometimes, it makes you have to be with yourself in ways you can’t distract yourself from yourself at home. Because you are all you really get to take with you. You can’t stuff your stuff into a suitcase or leave that type of baggage at home.
Because of that, you learn how to be with everything you come with. You learn, out of necessity, how to be self-reliant. As well as test and develop deep trust of others. You can travel alone, but never in a vacuum. You can go off-grid, but never without somewhere along the way depending on another to get you there. Travel fosters deep self-trust and a deeper faith in humanity (even those times when humanity lets you down).
Traveling (after inner-well-being work) allows me to feel free. It lets me unfold myself, to strip off layers, to remove roles. To be complete as I am, where I am, wholly in the intoxicating presence of each new moment. I am immersed in peaceful expansion. And if that isn’t a beautiful attestation to well-being I don’t know what is…
El Salvador
The anti-retreat at Mizata, the anti-resort.
It isn’t that we aren’t going to interrupt our daily grind, or that we aren’t going to spend time resting, reflecting and restoring our bodies and minds. It isn’t that we aren’t going to practice yoga, meditation, enjoy the beauty of the surroundings, to eat delicious, nutritious foods and find adventures along the way. This anti-retreat is something different.
This anti-retreat is about stripping away the expectations, the curated experiences, and the performative wellness culture. It’s about showing up exactly as you are—messy, curious, seeking, or simply tired of the noise.
At Mizata anti-resort, there are no perfectly staged lounge chairs, no pretense of exclusivity. Instead, there’s raw beauty—the kind that isn’t polished for postcards but felt in the rhythm of the waves, the hush of the jungle, the warmth of a shared meal. It’s the kind of place that invites you to just be.
We move because it feels good, not because it’s scheduled. We eat real food, prepared by real hands, honoring local traditions and ingredients. We explore—not as tourists, but as guests—respecting the land and the people who call it home.
There’s yoga, if you want it. Surf, if you’re up for it. Conversations that go late into the night. Stillness, if that’s what you crave. There’s no itinerary to complete, no pressure to achieve a state of enlightenment. Just space—space to breathe, to exist, to rediscover what it means to feel alive.
This is retreating, unscripted; an anti-retreat at the anti-resort. A break from the grind, without the clichés. An experience that doesn’t promise transformation—but just might change you anyway.
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