Mindful Traveling - with a good Reason
Lying under palm trees and having a good time – that’s a great thing. It becomes problematic, when it harms the nature, the hosts are exploited and ethics suffers. This is true for package tours where traveling includes stying in a huge hotel complex or cruise ship.
From a holistic view, we should better travel in a way, which is beneficial for all of us. Mindful traveling is part of the HOLISTIC LIFESTYLE. We can go on a trip and recharge our batteries or learn certain skills in a special place. The training can be combined with vacation and relaxation. Ideally, the accommodation is private, which connects people and cultures and also protects nature more. In return, these people can come to our home and learn from us – a real win-win principle.
Mindful Traveling: Work and Travel
The concept of work and travel already got established worldwide. In exchange for food and lodging, you can help locals on farms with cultivation and harvesting, such as picking olives in Calabria, in Italy or harvesting apples in South Germany. You can also look after animals, such as donkeys in Andalusia in Spain or watch over sheeps in the Highlands of Scotland. Choose a natural place, where you can live really healthy and recharge your energy, but also get to know a new country and culture.
Mindful Traveling: Holistic and Sustainable
There are great travel providers who combine their trips to all parts of the world with charitable projects. The profits are used locally to improve the infrastructure and bring the residents a fair income from tourism. The focus of sustainable travel is also to really get to know the country and people.
Travel with a good purpose and intention
Mindful Traveling: Learn from Other cultures
There is nothing more enriching than getting to know new cultures, especially when they still live a traditional holistic life in alignment with the nature. You can directly book workshops with Aborigines and learn specific art techniques or their philosophy. They are very spiritual and are in deep connection with Mother Earth and celestial beings or their anchestors. There is so much we can learn from them about nature and life.
Mindful Traveling with Spirit
There are places in this world, which have a very special energy. These are so-called places of power, which have a very special vibration due to their location and/or geomantic characteristics, such as volcanic regions. Mindful traveling means go to places with special energies that increase consciousness, such as Es Vedra in Ibiza, Sedona and Mount Shastra in the USA or the Himalayas. In such places of power, Meditation can be very intense.
In principle, pure nature is a place of power itself. This can be found all over the world, preferably in remote places in the mountains or on little-visited islands. But you need several days for a trip like this. Basically, from a holistic perspective, we need 21 days for one place to arrive properly and recharge our batteries.
Mindful Traveling: Take a Break in retreats
If you need a Time-Out and a reset, go to a remote place, where you can stay in absolute silence, ideally in the nature or attached to a special Place of Power. This could be a mountain, temple or a church with a high vibration.
Attend a retreat in a monastry or an ashram and learn techniques, to connect with your life energies. Look for a place which is energetically charged by monks meditating there for centuries like in India, Thailand, Tibet, Italy or Germany – no matter which religion or tradition. Learn to meditate in very authentic way and meet like-minded people. Very popular are retreats in the Himalayas like Rishikesh, where you are close to the divine energies.
