🧳 Authentic food and inner journey - checked!

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🥑 Travel, eat, co-work, repeat (it rhymes!)

What: The Eatinerant Food Retreat, is a chance to explore a new destination, try authentic and mouth-watering dishes, and meet like-minded individuals.

Why: Travel, food, and connections are so strongly intertwined - you bond and understand a culture via its food!
Where: Merida, Mexico (an easy drive from this UNESCO site)
Duration: 10 days
When: Jan 24 - Feb 4, 2024
Price: Starting at €1290 for an all-inclusive 😯 experience

What catches our eye:

• Mexican hacienda with delicious meals included

• 🌮 making workshop, masterminds

• Cenotes, flamingos, snorkeling (honestly, we could go on and on)

PS: Feeling peckish? Here’s a beginner’s guide to Mexican food.

🧘 Donation-based silent meditations around the 🌎️ 

What: 10-day Vipassana Meditation by http://Dhamma.org, a donation-based residential course to learn the basics of the method, and practice sufficiently to experience its beneficial results.

Why: Because we need to journey within, as well as around the world
Where: Centers around the world (find yours here)
Duration: 10 days (+2 days to settle in)
Price: Donations are accepted at the end of the course. While this might appear free, the community thrives via the donations of the ones who experienced the practice.

What catches our eye:

• One of India's most ancient techniques of meditation

• 2-in-1 experience: self-transformation and digital detox

• A meaningful challenge for the ones seeking personal growth

PS: Competition for spots is high, and you are more likely to be accepted in your own country.

🦜 Facebook wisdom

I came across the above question in a Facebook group and thought the answers were very inspiring 💌 
Here are some…

• Hobbies: speleology; kitesurfing; motorcycle riding; drawing;

• Adaptations for survival: knowing most of the tropical invertebrates; foraging; puppy eye looks; learning about poisonous scorpions; hurricane survival skills; small sewing projects; learning how to bucket bathe; tolerance for cold showers; cutting & trimming hair; learning how to keep a max of 12kg for all your life

• Career changes: becoming a masseur; photography

• Skills for life: storytelling; resilience; minimalism; small talk with anyone

• Business skills: video editing; writing; many language skills; purchasing power parity arbitrage

• Eye-openers: fundraising for the poor; psychedelics; new religions

  … and some fun ones: PDF editing skills for onward flight tickets 🙄 

See you next week,
Mona