A New Way to Wellness RE-Treat & Travel
Exploring Holistic Practitioners and Modern Mystics
Wellness has evolved far beyond the occasional spa day or yoga retreat. Today, the most forward-thinking travelers, creatives, and seekers are carving out time to explore what it truly means to “re-treat” themselves—by investing in their mind, body, and soul through the guidance of modern mystics with holistic practices for the health and wellness curious enthusiasts.
Across the globe—and increasingly, in our own neighborhoods—these practitioners are reimagining what fitness healing looks like mind body and soul through a practical approach that merges ancient an and modern modalities. From water cleansing and breathwork journeys to sound therapies, hypnosis, immersive art therapy, stargazing, ancestral rituals, and cutting-edge somatic practices, they offer alternative yet deeply grounded ways to reconnect with the self.
Their work is not about quick fixes or fleeting indulgence, but about accountability, transformation, and long-lasting intentional well-being.
““As above so below””
To work with a practitioner today is to step into a new kind of partnership. These guides hold space for individuals ready to take their lives back into their own hands, offering both ancient wisdom and contemporary techniques that help us reset, realign, and rise stronger.
Here, Cosmopolitan Jungle highlights 10 standout experiences—each curated by a soulful guide whose craft blends tradition, innovation, and intuition. Together, they represent a growing movement toward a lifestyle where tending to our inner world is as essential as nourishing our outer one.
Hope Obatala — The Root Healer
Known as The Root Healer, Hope Obatala is a modern mystic and herbalist who bridges ancestral plant wisdom with contemporary energetic practices. Born in Durango, Mexico as Esperanza Dominguez - brought to the United States when she was just a week old.
At a young age Hope had the gift of seeing people as luminous beings of light and energy and could perceive their essence, their struggles, and their potential for transformation. Her path deepened when she became an ordained priest creating a devoted discipline to her practice.
Today she works with reverence for the ancestors, the divine, and the healing forces of nature, helping others reconnect to their inner light and embrace the fullness of who they truly are.
Hope’s signature work centers on custom spiritual baths and energetic cleansings—living rituals designed to cleanse the body, refresh the spirit, and restore balance. By incorporating herbal plant medicine and shadow work, she uncovers the root cause of imbalance and prescribes herbal remedies through limpiezas (energy clearings) and baños (herbal baths) that clear blocked energies and open paths to self-love, abundance, and prosperity.
Her services are always specific to each individual’s needs, drawing on intentional plant intelligence to create a customized root-medicine remedy. Using her intuitive abilities, Hope channels deities and spiritual guides during personal readings, Reiki healings, and energetic clearings, often incorporating a singing bowl to deepen connection with ancestral energy.
Hope is a certified Usui Reiki Master and has completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training. She also serves as a spiritual consultant for a select group of high-profile clients across entertainment, media, wellness, and government.
Benefits
· Cultivate self-love and acceptance
· Heal and renew relationships
· Release old limiting patterns
· Complete karmic contracts
· Remove energetic blocks and illusions
· Activate ancestral gifts
· Open pathways to generational wealth and authentic abundance
How to Connect
Sessions and consultations can be scheduled through Hope’s website www.hopetheroothealer.com or Instagram DM @Hope_the_root_healer
Angela Monaco — Wellness Neuroperformance & Movement Mastery
For more than three decades, Angela Monaco has redefined the edge of human potential as a movement strategist, biohacker, and wellness innovator. Drawing on over eight years of applied cellular-optimization research, she designs bespoke programs that enhance physical performance, upgrade mitochondrial function, and extend longevity for high-performing individuals and groups.
Set in a jungle-by-the-sea sanctuary where nature whispers renewal, Angela’s Your Biology immersions are an epigenetic awakening—a place where science, movement, and nutrition converge to rewire the body, mind, and spirit. Guests choose between three-day and five-day experiences that blend barefoot sunrise workouts atop Azulik’s sculptural structures with precision training rituals, cellular-level nutrition protocols, and cutting-edge biohacking strategies.
Mornings begin with elemental movement and circadian alignment. Afternoons flow into breathwork, neuro-performance drills, and frequency-based interventions that regulate the brain and nervous system. Evenings close with firelight rituals beneath Tulum’s expansive sky—a symphony of recovery and presence. Each itinerary is designed to unlock resilience, clarity, and magnetic vitality.
Key Focus Areas
· Brain and nervous-system regulation
· Metabolic rewiring and hormonal balance
· Mitochondrial and inflammatory reset
· Personalized nutrition and nootropic protocols
· Breath and frequency-based performance enhancement
Angela is a certified movement specialist with advanced training in cellular optimization, neuromuscular integration, and epigenetic coaching. She regularly consults for elite athletes, creative executives, and leaders in technology, wellness, and entertainment who seek long-term strategies for peak performance and longevity.
Benefits
· Deep physical resilience and cellular regeneration
· Sharpened mental clarity and creative flow
· Hormonal equilibrium and amplified energy
· Long-term tools for longevity and high-level performance
How to Connect
Private and small-group immersions are tailored to individual goals. To inquire or reserve a “Your Biology” experience, contact Angela via Instagram @angelamonaco.coach
Emanuele Righes — Hypnotherapy & Guided Meditation Journeys for Clarity and Alignment
Emanuele Righes is a meditation teacher, hypnotherapist, and guide into the deeper layers of human consciousness. Originally from Italy, he has spent nearly two decades immersed in meditation, NLP, hypnosis, and Vedic traditions, blending ancient wisdom with modern mind-science.
Emanuele offers personalized hypnotherapy and guided meditation sessions designed to dissolve subconscious blocks, realign inner pathways, and activate an individual’s highest potential. Through his calm, resonant voice and refined techniques, he helps clients move beyond surface thoughts to connect with their true essence—where clarity, healing, and purpose naturally emerge. In person and private retreats you can practice, learn and hack your thoughts.
His work bridges the mystical and the practical: giving dreams structure, directing chaos, and offering tangible tools to transform inspiration into action. Each session becomes a doorway to profound self-understanding and empowered creation.
Key Focus Areas
· Hypnotherapy for subconscious reprogramming
· Guided meditation for deep presence and insight
· NLP and Vedic practices for spiritual alignment
· Practical integration for lasting life changes
Credentials & Reach
Trained in hypnosis, NLP, and Vedic meditation traditions, Emanuele serves an international clientele of creatives, entrepreneurs, and seekers who wish to align vision with reality. He is known for helping people translate inner revelations into grounded strategies for meaningful impact.
Benefits
· Release of subconscious blocks and limiting beliefs
· Heightened clarity and emotional equilibrium
· Strengthened connection to one’s authentic self
· Practical steps for realizing goals and creative projects
How to Connect
Sessions are available virtually and in select in-person settings worldwide. Contact Emanuele through Instagram to book a private virtual or in person retreat @emanuele.righes
Olivia at Mind Valley
Olivia Dydyna — Soulgasm Breath & Voice Activation
Olivia is your guide for integrating sex and spirit. Trained in the transformative VITA method and Theta Healing, she draws on a deep background in sex, love, and relationship coaching to help men and women embrace their sexual energy from a heart-centered space, opening the door to profound soul-to-soul connection.
Soulgasm Breath & Voice Activation is an immersive experience for singles or couples to awaken the body, voice, and creative life force through breath, sound, and visualization. Participants learn to channel sexual energy as a wellspring of creativity, emotional intimacy, and divine self-expression—whether with a partner or within their own intimate practice. The journey transforms intimacy into a co-created dance of presence, pleasure, and remembrance of one’s divinity.
Beyond the Soulgasm sessions, Olivia serves as a psychic and energetic healer with the rare gift of being a Reflector in Human Design. Acting as a living mirror, she reveals subconscious patterns, ancestral imprints, and hidden beliefs that block intimacy, love, and creative flow. Her intuitive insight helps clients shed layers of fear and conditioning, unlocking freedom, expansion, and authentic expression.
Key Focus Areas
· Breathwork and vocal activation for sexual and creative energy
· Intimacy coaching for singles and couples
· Psychic and energetic clearing to release ancestral and subconscious blocks
· Human Design Reflector guidance for self-discovery
Credentials & Reach
Olivia is certified in the VITA coaching method and trained in Theta Healing, combining somatic wisdom with deep energetic sensitivity. Her work attracts individuals and couples worldwide seeking to rekindle intimacy and step fully into their creative potential.
Benefits
· Ignite sexual energy as a source of vitality and inspiration
· Release ancestral patterns and limiting beliefs around intimacy
· Expand emotional connection and self-expression
· Experience a profound sense of creative and spiritual liberation
How to Connect
Explore the Soulgasm experience or book a private session or join her for a private retreat via besexessful.com/soulgasm or connect with Olivia on Instagram @olivia.lovemagic
ONA AOERA - Elemental Sound, Breath & Water Therapies
Born in the Himalayas of Northern India and of Caribbean-Swiss heritage, ONA invites you into a multi-sensory journey through the four elements to reconnect with your deepest essence. Guided by six years as a renunciate within Tibetan Buddhist traditions, ONA merges ancient wisdom with contemporary practices—an immersive experience where music, movement, and nature dissolve the boundaries between body, mind, and spirit.
Each session unfolds as a living ritual. Ether reveals itself through ethereal sound journeys, heartfelt songs, and Indian/Middle Eastern electronic live sets. Air brings tailored breath practices to reset the nervous system and release long-held tension. Water flows in one-on-one aquatic therapies for women and water ceremonies for groups and couples. Earth grounds the experience in regeneration, honoring the land that sustains us.
With certifications spanning music, aquatic therapy, Indian breathwork facilitation, regenerative design principles, trauma-informed leadership, regenerative detox, classical Ayurveda, the Gene Keys, Tibetan dream yoga, Qi Gong, free diving, acupressure, and yoga nidra, ONA offers an approach that is both profoundly spiritual and deeply practical. This is a journey of remembrance—an invitation to return to your essence and awaken to the rhythms of the natural world.
Benefits
· Deep Nervous-System Reset: Tailored breath practices and aquatic therapies calm the body, reduce stress hormones, and restore inner balance.
· Emotional Release & Healing: Water ceremonies and sound journeys create a safe space to let go of suppressed tension, grief, and inherited patterns.
· Heightened Presence & Clarity: Elemental rituals—ether, air, water, earth—sharpen awareness and open the senses for profound states of stillness and insight.
· Creative & Spiritual Awakening: Ethereal music and live sets activate the imagination, expanding your connection to spirit and unlocking creativity.
· Connection to Nature & Regeneration: Grounding earth practices cultivate reverence for the land and inspire a lifestyle of reciprocity with the natural world.
· Personal Transformation: A holistic integration of sound, breath, and water therapy supports lasting change in mind, body, and soul.
How to Connect and Book Your 1 on 1 or Group Retreat @rezo_n_a
Nida Şafak - Ceramic Art & Nature Retreats for Presence and Renewal
Nida Şafak (b. 1980, Istanbul) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is shaped by the awe-inspiring beauty of nature, diverse cultures, and her personal experiences. She studied at the Marmara Academy of Fine Arts in Istanbul and, in 2015, established her studio in the city’s historic Galata district.
Her artistic practice spans ceramics, sculpture, painting, murals, mosaics, stage and event design, and experimental use of diverse materials. She has collaborated widely and participated in international residencies, with her works featured in projects alongside Anna Laudel Contemporary Gallery and Istanbul Modern Museum of Art.
Since 2022, Şafak has been on a personal journey of discovery across South America. Embracing a nomadic way of life, she continues to expand her artistic language while traveling and creating, with Mexico becoming her main base of inspiration and production.
Stay Strong: A 3-Day Artist’s Retreat
Join Nida for an immersive creative journey where art becomes meditation. Through hands-on ceramic work, painting, and elemental practices, participants connect deeply with nature, calm the nervous system, and discover the meditative power of making. The retreat blends studio sessions with time in nature, inviting you to translate the textures and symbols of the earth into your own personal talisman or sculpture.
Benefits
· Nervous-System Reset: Slow, mindful creation lowers stress and restores balance.
· Creative Flow & Presence: Tactile art processes quiet the mind and awaken intuition.
· Connection to Nature: Materials and motifs (such as Nida’s signature horn symbol) deepen appreciation for the planet and its resilience.
· Personal Empowerment: Participants craft protective, symbolic pieces as reminders of inner strength and environmental stewardship.
· Cultural Exchange: Learn traditional mosaic and ceramic techniques from an internationally exhibited artist.
Reach Nida on Instagram: @nidasafak_art
Garrett Wood — Men’s Holistic Health & Energetic Mastery
A father, movement specialist, and lifelong student of esoteric wisdom. Raised in Chicago and now based in Tulum, Mexico, he bridges cutting-edge health science with ancestral traditions to help modern men reclaim vitality and inner power.
Garrett is the founder of Gina.Health, a wellness brand focused on natural movement and targeted supplementation for optimal physical performance.
Building on that foundation, he offers private mentorships and immersive men’s experiences designed to activate three essential pillars:
· Physical Health – advanced movement training and nutritional strategies learned through eight years of apprenticeship with Dr. Rick Potts.
· Emotional Well-Being – nervous-system regulation and deep-work practices to release stored trauma.
· Energetic & Spiritual Coherence – Kambo facilitation received from indigenous wisdom keepers of Peru and Colombia, plus certified Kundalini Bodywork to harness life-force energy.
These mentorships create a container for men to realign the body, clarify the mind, and expand into a grounded, authentic masculine presence in these one of a kind mind body soul training.
Benefits
· Restores physical strength and cellular vitality
· Balances hormones and nervous-system function
· Clears emotional stagnation and ancestral patterns
· Enhances energetic alignment and spiritual awareness
· Cultivates confidence, purpose, and lasting resilience
How to Connect
Instagram: @the.naturalhuman – For private mentorship inquiries
Miroslava Pineda — Celestial Journeys & Stargazing Immersions
Miroslava Pineda is an astronomer from Cuernavaca, Mexico, a multidimensional alchemist, and a gifted cosmic storyteller. She bridges science, mysticism, and quantum physics to help people reconnect with the stars as a living map of purpose and expansion.
Miroslava designs intimate, transformative stargazing experiences that weave astronomical discovery with mythic narrative. Through her telescopes—affectionately named Henry, Stella, and Titan—guests witness planets, nebulae, and galaxies while exploring the deeper meaning of our place in the cosmos.
She has spoken at national astronomy conferences, collaborated with the Mexican government, and presented at the Los Dos Uno International Storytelling Festival. Her luxury stargazing events have been hosted by Nomade Hotel, Casa Chablé, and BioFeria Tulum. She also leads Dark Skies Tulum, a government-supported initiative to protect the region’s night sky, and is building an astronomical observatory in Tulum.
Her Signature Offering - A 90-Minute Cosmic Immersion or Three-Day Celestial Retreat
A private or small-group stargazing journey guests peer through Miroslava’s telescopes to observe the night sky while she shares celestial myths, current astronomical phenomena, and guided reflections that awaken wonder and inner alignment. Participants learn to read the night sky, create their own cosmic maps, and engage in meditative practices that connect the rhythm of the stars to personal intention.
Benefits
Visitors leave with a heightened sense of awe, a scientific and spiritual understanding of the cosmos in the heart of Tulum with practical tools for integrating that connection into daily life—a reminder that the universe is both our origin and our guide.
To learn book your bespoke experience head to: @henrythetelescope
Federica Rotta -Fasting Guide • Plant-Based Culinary Pioneer • Holistic Wellness Mentor
An Italian mother since the age of twenty, Federica Rotta has devoted her life to freeing humanity from the blocks that dim vitality, creativity, health, and true purpose. Seven formative years in India immersed her in Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, holistic nutrition, and the art of spiritual living.
In 2009 she became one of Italy’s first plant-based chefs, bringing the raw-living-foods movement to her home country. Two years later she began a close collaboration with Dr. Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life in Arizona—an experience that revealed how deep detoxification and fasting ignite profound transformation.
Today, Federica guides transformational fasting retreats that move far beyond physical cleansing. Her programs awaken vitality and inner freedom through daily practices that release emotional and physical impurities, concluding with personalized plans for integration and sustained well-being.
Her latest book, My Body, My Temple, distills decades of experience into a path of healing and reconnection with the body’s sacred essence.
Benefits
• Profound physical detoxification and cellular renewal
• Emotional release and mental clarity
• Reconnection to natural rhythms and life purpose
• Practical guidance for a vibrant, sustainable lifestyle
Learn more at federicarotta.com/programma follow @https://www.instagram.com/federica_rotta/
Chef Dani Maya - Holistic Culinary Experiences for Nourishment and Vitality
Dani Maya blends culinary artistry with environmental science to help people build lasting, health-centered relationships with food. Holding a Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, she crafts vibrant, plant-forward menus that celebrate local ingredients and ecological balance.
As the chef-owner of Afrixali Mar Bistro, a Ethiopian fusion pop-up dining concept, Dani creates dishes that honor the union of plants, oceans, and humans. Beyond her pop-ups, she is sought after as a private chef for wellness retreats around the world and offers one-on-one food coaching through her mentorship program.
3-Day Immersive Cooking Retreat
Dani’s signature retreat invites small groups or private guests to reconnect with the elements—plants, water, and self—through hands-on culinary experiences. Over three days, participants learn mindful preparation, holistic nutrition principles, and techniques to nourish body and spirit from the inside out. Each retreat is designed to inspire sustainable habits and a deeper understanding of how food can heal, energize, and restore.
Connect with Dani and join her in a country near you for this special experience @dani_mayamorcita
Each experience is an invitation to transform your life through travel by implementing holistic lifestyle practices with real take aways and new approach to wellbeing.
