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!

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An afternoon for Goddesses

This photo is from the Fall 2011 Goddess trip to Puerto Morleos, Mexico.  The picture says it all!  Floating. Laughing.  Telling Stories.  Under the Caribbean sun overlooking the Caribbean Ocean.

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Time to Finalize Details for the Fall 2012 Goddess Trip

 Friends since grade school

Goddesses have been traveling to the Mexican Yucatan with Traveling Goddesses since 2002.  Over the years sisters, mother/daughter, mother-in-law/daughter-in-law, lifelong friends, members of a book club, women religious, recent widows, a yoga instructor, a woman celebrating her 50th birthday who gave herself the trip as a birthday present, a woman recovering from knee replacement surgery, retired women, women working fulltime (at home and outside the home), caregivers and the list goes on, have journeyed south with Traveling Goddesses.

Traveling Goddesses come from a wide array of professions:  Construction company owner, attorney, educator, massage therapist, wife, mother, grandmother, advocate, professional chef, photographer, author, nurse, and...

Connie and Margo return to Puerto Morelos soon to prepare the way for the Fall 2012 trip, October 28-November 4.  Their checklist is ready:  Finalize
1) Rental of the gorgeous villas on the Caribbean
2) Schedule Goddess driver for airport runs and side trips
3) With Beatriz, Cultural Guide to the Yucatan, arrange exciting side trip options,
     including Day of the Dead at Xcaret   
4) Meet with local shop keepers in Puerto Morelos and negotiate discounts for Fall 2012 Goddesses
5) Meet with Paz, snorkeling guide
6) and ... ... ... find out what is new in Puerto Morelos and surrounding area!

All of this while staying at Casa del Sol, savoring Mexican cuisine, sumptuous sunrises, swimming in the azure blue waters of the Caribbean, strolling the white sandy beach barefoot and making even more memories as they have since they met at St. Luke's Elementary School in St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Fall 2012 Goddess Trip is filling fast.  Visit www.travelinggoddesses.com to learn more and to register.  Give yourself the gift of a magnificent week of restoring your body and soul!  Then, consider inviting your favorite goddess (s) to join you.  The villas are ready ~ the Caribbean is beckoning ~ the sound of waves coming ashore will lull you to sleep for a mid-day siesta or a good nights rest!

Check us out at the 4WOMEN NETWORKING EVENT

Margo & Connie meet a Goddess
Women's Getaway Retreat

February 16, 6-30-8:30
4 Women Networking Event
Ray J's, 9854 Norma Lane
Woodbury, Minnesota
Connie's cell phone:  612.298.0205

Meet: 
~~with us to learn more about how you can join us on the Fall 2012 Goddess Trip to Puerto Morelos, Mexico.
                                                         ~~with other women business owners
                                                         Sign up for door prizes
                                                         Learn about upcoming events
                                                         Join 4Women Network!
                                                         Enjoy great food at Ray J's

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Traveling Goddesses NEWS!

Margo arrived in Minnesota late yesterday afternoon to join Connie, Ginger and more than 65 other women at the 7th Annual Women's Getaway Retreat at Oak Ridge Conference near Chaska.  Oak Ridge is nestled amid serene fields and lakes and walking paths dotted with snow and a thin layer of ice.  Last evening was cool and damp which made the enormous fireplace just inside the entrance an especially welcoming sight.

We are having a great time sharing our love of planning and guiding GODDESS TRIPS for small groups of women to the Mexican Yucatan! Our display includes  full color bookmarks and flyers for the Fall 2012 trip, a slideshow of our Fall 2011 trip.  This is a tremendous opportunity to meet and network with amazing businesses and with incredible women.  After dinner last night it was time to put on the pajamas and get spa treatments from a number of other exhibitors!  While sipping wine, the evening was capped by the effervescent  Barbara McAfee, songwriter and singer from Minneapolis who "was 'the band' for a 15-city Women’s Leadership Revival Tour with leadership author and speaker Margaret Wheatley and she wrote the theme song as well."

NOTE:  The Spring 2012 Goddess Trip has been canceled due to a family emergency.

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Spring 2012 Goddess Trip: 35 DAYS and Counting

The beach waiting for YOU!

The warm inviting Caribbean waters and sky; the serene and exquisite villa; adventerous intriguing women and asumptous meals; snorkeling and cultural tours; journaling and siestas; onsite massage and yoga; all a mere seven block stroll down the white sandy beach to the nearby fishing village of Puerto Morelos and more are a mere 35 days away.

Your chaise overlooking the Infinity Pool
and the Caribbean are waiting for you! 

Join us March 3 - 10 for our Spring 2012 Goddess Trip that is  "more than vacation, not quite a retreat." 

To register for the trip and for more information:

www.travelinggoddesses.com   travelinggoddesses@gmail.com
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