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How Travel Can Open Your Life to Growth

Jessica Van Antwerp is the owner and CEO of Integral Travel, providing wellness retreats and education to teach people how to unlock the natural healing capacity of their bodies while connecting with others and the planet. She recently…

You couldn't plan this if you tried

There are many ways to travel: in a group or solo, on an itinerary or totally winging it, or some combination of those four options. Personally, I like to plan things, even if only the night before. It helps ease my anxiety and actually gets…
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The Power of Silence

Recent studies are showing that taking time for silence restores the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our minds to be more adaptive and responsive to the complex environments in which so many of us now live, work, and lead. In…
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The Power of Retreat

I'm fresh back from a weekend retreat with my spiritual community, cultivating Unconditional Love. Even though it was only two days, I feel profoundly different. I was able to really leave behind my bottomless to-do list, my worries, and…
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What's your body telling you?

Growing up, my mom taught me some invaluable life lessons. "Always leave a place nicer than you found it." "Treat others the way you want to be treated." "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything." Perhaps the one that contributes…

The one place only YOU can travel

If you're reading this blog, you must, like me, love travel. The siren song of far-off destinations pulls at the corners of our minds. We yearn for the exotic flavors of foreign cuisines, the colorful contrast of other cultures, and the feeling…
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How do you want to feel?

Happy new year! As I'm looking deep into the eyes of 2018, I'm imagining the great contributions we at Integral Travel can make to answer that question with our Wellness Retreats. Last week a lady from Boston called saying she wanted to…
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In the Middle of Nowhere

Dean, our guide, had his fishing pole but not the snorkel, mask, or spear gun he usually brings for catching dinner in one of the seven waterfall pools. Next time he said we would bring hammocks, build a fire, cook fish and spend the night.…
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The Most Memorable Moment of My Trip to Southern Thailand

My favorite memory from this trip is an image from the classroom at Jungle Yoga. It is the end of our journey, and we are all sitting together in a circle discussing something. The overwhelming feeling is that we are all one, and our smiles…
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Water

On the surface, warm and clear, light easily penetrating. Down below, the depths we fear, on which we are meditating. The dark and cold beneath the surface have no desire to be shown, quite content are the secrets of the deep and shadowy…