Transformational Travel

Traveling Goddesses ~ Transformational Travel for small groups of women is all about offering self-care and cultural opportunities in the Yucatan bordering the magnificent Caribbean Sea.

Imagine if you can:  Our driver picks you up at the airport in Cancun; the placard he holds reads "Traveling Goddesses." He then drives goddesses to our private villa on the fine white sandy beach on the Caribbean Sea to begin a week of self-care and exploration with every detail carefully planned.  Fresh locally grown food is prepared on site and yoga is offered daily on the beach or at the Infinity Pool.  Optional side trips to snorkel the nearby reef, visit a cenote, Temescal (Mayan Sweat Lodge) or a near by spa are planned to the last detail.

Tomorrow a Minnesota woman leaves her home and returns to Puerto Morelos (PM), Yucatan to start a new chapter in her life.  Her experience of being a "Traveling Goddess" opened a whole new world to her, one that she returned to explore this winter.  It became very clear that PM was where her heart and soul and body had found a new home.  She returned to Minnesota, began selling and giving away her possessions, put her condo on the market and shared with her family and friends that while her love for all them remains deep and abiding, her heart and soul and body had indeed found a new home in PM.

Her condo has not sold, she is going anyway; she had a going away party a week ago for family and friends - all of whom will miss her deeply - she is going anyway; she has some things in place for her life in PM and much remains mystery - she is going anyway. 

That is what transformation is for her.  Nothing can change her love for her family and friends here and, nothing can keep her from moving to PM where she can snorkel the turquoise blue waters of the Carribean, live a more simple life at a much more sustainable pace and continue to build her new community of friends in PM.  She just knows that this is right for her, right now.  And she is living into her dream of moving to this place where both earth and the people are warm, where simple living IS living.

Soar Melissa, woman who dared to take a Traveling Goddesses trip in the fall of 2011 and found a whole new world of simplicity and beauty and wonder, and allowed yourself to be transformed!  Send us pictures and stories.  We look forward to seeing on our Fall 2012 Goddess Trip to PM, October 28-November 4. 

To register for the Fall 2012 trip visit www.travelinggoddesses.com

Happy Mother's Day 2012

From this blog I have been missing for over two months.  That is what happens when life jumps up and demands full attention.  All this is to say -  that I am blessed to have an incredible family and friends near and far -  and a job that is meaningful, fulfilling and at times demanding.  How can I be so blessed?

And now it is Mother's Day Weekend 2012 and where would the first most amazing email describing "A Mother's Love" come from earlier this week?  A congregation of Catholic Women Religious - a congregation from the Midwest who are among the more than 57,000 Catholic Women Religious who are under siege by the Vatican for their alleged radical feminism and attention to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised. 

So dear Traveling Goddesses ~ each of you ~ read this inclusive and expansive and vibrant gift of life that brought tears to my eyes and added a few laugh wrinkles to my eyes in the middle of my work day.  Receive it abundantly and share it with the women in your life who are "A Mother's Love."

 

The Congregation of St. Joseph www.csjoseph.org

Special Edition: May, 2012 - Issue 2

A Mother’s Love

Did you ever think about how many amazing metaphors include the word “mother?” 

We speak of Mother Earth and Mother Nature (no more easily fooled than our own Moms);

Mother Church and Motherhouse (both capture our hearts and spirits);

motherboard and mothership (one holds the crucial components of a system,

the other cradles smaller vessels that operate independently from it);

mother tongue and mother lode (our first language and an abundant, rich source).

The list goes on and on. It seems when we are grasping to express that which

holds together and nurtures, “mother” is our go-to word. 

And no wonder. Mothers carry us for nine months in their bodies,

and for the rest of our lives in their hearts. While babies, we see them as mirrors,

learning who we are by gazing into their faces. As we grow older, we turn our

faces towards the world, eager for the independence that is only made possible

leaning on their love. A mother’s love is made of sacrifice and generosity,

gentleness and a steadying hand. Some mothers come to us biologically or

through adoption. Others are met over the course of a lifetime as teachers,

colleagues, partners and friends. In the best of worlds, it is our biological,

spiritual and “soul friend” mothers who teach us our most critical lessons about love.

How blessed is that?
 

This weekend, we remember all biological and adopted mothers, especially our own.

We thank God for all women in our lives who taught us critical

lessons and offered us the love that shaped us. 

To each of them… 

Happy Mother's Day

And then tell them again on every regular day ... Mother's don't just show up on Mother's Day!

To learn about the Fall 2012 Goddess Trip to Puerto Morelos, Yucatan, www.travelinggoddesses.com  

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Posted by:  Ginger K. Hedstrom, Traveling Goddesses Promotion and Technology