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I’d like to share (with permission), an email from one of the participants in this year’s retreat to La Duna:

“I wrote this to a dear friend this morning about the Phyzz Retreat in La Duna, Mexico and I’d like to share it here, as is:

Some of it:

• Seeing whales less than five feet away from a tiny boat on an otherwise empty ocean surface
• Witnessing the birth, first breath, first words, first steps and first milk of newborn goats and sensing their mothers’ choice to have shared this with us
• Seeing the sun rise every morning on the ocean, then feeling it heat my face through morning meditation
• Yoga twice a day under an outdoor palapa, as birds found and refound their nests above us
• Snorkeling with sea lions
• Being in the desert, surrounded by cactus forests
• Sleeping and waking in a wooden hut
• 10 foot manta rays from that same boat
• Having fresh gazpacho on an empty beach nestled in the curves of an island in the middle of the Cortez Sea
• Reading medicine cards every morning to think about the new way I will look at myself
• Entering an ancient canyon with a Lakota ritual
• Kayaking along the desert shore
• Reflexology massage accompanied by spiritual insight

Surrounded by the smells, sounds and intentions of goats, friends, dogs, chickens, cardinals, sea lions, whales, woodpeckers, cacti, canyons, spanish…. it feels nearly impossible to describe and I know I will be forever changed by La Duna. I sobbed on the airplane, yesterday. My heart ached when I woke up this morning and I was again surrounded by walls.

I hope you can come next year.”

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