At Home with a Stranger

Perhaps the ‘true sources of my own power’ were not in my achievements or intellect but in my willingness to surrender myself into the network of human connection.

Life & Travel CoachGuest UserMarch 4, 2019

Healing and Happiness Through Immersion in Dance

Almost three years ago I had an awakening. An awakening to a part of myself that was lying dormant, unnourished, and unseen. The creative part. The silly part. The loving part.

Wellness RetreatsGuest UserFebruary 25, 2019

Healing Waters

One day I get a message from my boss, which says “We’re going to the desert to meet an Aboriginal elder who will guide us to the world’s biggest terrestrial hot spring. It’s next week, can you make it?”

AccommodationsGuest UserFebruary 25, 2019

A Personal Connection to Transformational Travel

It is true that travel has the power to connect, enlighten, empowerand transform. For some people it happens in a specific moment, for others it happens when they return from their travel experience, and for some, like myself it happens over time.

Life & Travel Coach, Travel DesignerGuest UserFebruary 25, 2019

How a Trip to India Transformed My Life Forever

I’ve always considered myself a spiritual person, but never really appreciated how universally connected we all are in our hearts and souls until my first trip to India in 2010. It was one of those rare and wonderful once-in-a-lifetime journeys that taught me that travel can truly transform a life. I know, because this trip transformed my life.

Travel DesignerGuest UserFebruary 25, 2019

Transformational Travel in Flores, Indonesia

It is the little things that make a big difference and create indelible memories we can recount forever. Travel is the best education we can give our children and ourselves.

Travel DesignerGuest UserFebruary 19, 2019

Jumping Into The Truth: A Transformational Travel Story

I was intentionally trying and thoroughly enjoying all of the delicious food. The smells, the sounds, and the energy were invigorating. My adventures were abundant, with each of them teaching me an incredible amount about myself and about the world.

Travel Designer, Life & Travel CoachGuest UserFebruary 19, 2019

Making a difference in the Andes with smokeless kitchens

Ten years ago when I was high in the Andes at over 13,000 feet in the small village of Umasbamba Peru, I was inspired by a young man who had learned from a local NGO how to make efficient, smokeless ovens which heated the home an extra 20 degrees and provided warm water as well.

Travel DesignerGuest UserFebruary 19, 2019

Transformed by the Mountains

TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL had a big impact on me before I had any idea that TT was a thing. After growing up in a big city, and attending university with the goal of becoming a lawyer, my life took an unexpected turn.

Accommodations, Tourism ServicesGuest UserFebruary 8, 2019mountains, jackson hole, toronto, travel, skiing, adventure, transformational, hero

Transformation on Two Wheels

I REMEMBER HEARING THE SOUND of my motorcycle slamming against the concrete even over the din of the waterfall. The shot of pain in my knee was immediate but the ...

Travel DesignerMichael BennettAugust 24, 2017

Cycling for a Purpose

AT THE START I WOULDN'T say I was searching for something. I would say I was in a flow. I had success in my life and I was about to graduate early. But still, the ...

Michael BennettAugust 23, 2017

Mountain Bike Meditation

I PARTICIPATED IN THE CAPE ARGUS in 2010, for which I trained most of 2009. When you train for a big endurance event, it becomes an all-consuming obsession that ...

Michael BennettAugust 22, 2017

Answering My Call to Adventure

I REMEMBER THE DAY WHEN I first heard my own calling, my mind had been swirling, my soul entangled with some of life’s biggest questions ...

Michael BennettAugust 21, 2017

A Story of Renewal in Namibia

AT THE START OF 2015, I was in a very vulnerable stage in my life. I had just left a major tourism company that mentored and trained me for nearly two decades, where ...

Michael BennettAugust 20, 2017

A Life Transformed in Thailand

I STOOD AT THE WINDOW on the top floor of the skyscraper in the heart of Bangkok looking out at the chaos on the streets below. It was hot and smoggy, and it had ...

Michael BennettAugust 19, 2017

Crossroads in the Alps

IT'S AUGUST 2013. I AM in Switzerland. In the Jungfrau Region and the Lauterbrunnen Valley, to be specific. And it is here that I find myself quite literally and figuratively at a ...

Michael BennettAugust 18, 2017

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