I randomly decided to travel to a remote town called Mazunte, off the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, to attend a 10 day silent meditation retreat and these are my learnings.

I want to take a moment to recognize all the tiny miracles that needed to happen in order for me to be here today, reporting back to you about this weird and wonderful time I had in silence. I needed to already have taken the leap to move to Mexico in February, so traveling domestically didn’t feel like too much of a hurdle. I needed to reconnect with a friend I had lost touch with to recommend the 10 day silent retreat. And I needed to have made a virtual female friend that was introduced to me from one of the 100 masked men, a total stranger, to feel safe with the thought that Id at least know one person in this tiny little remote town in Mexico.

 

There was a lot of fear I had to overcome that I didn’t even realize. I was just excited at the thought of this retreat for no apparent reason. I didn’t even read up on the teachings, look at the schedule, or check out who was leading it. I just jumped in blindly. And to live life with that much vitality, you really have to stop and notice all the miracles that had to happen.