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How a pandemic, a broken crown, and a city’s quiet gravity brought Dr. Bonnie Rae’s sleep medicine to San Miguel de Allende There is a story Dr Bonnie Rae tells about the moment she decided to become a dentist. She was a jewelry designer and goldsmith at the time — working with her hands, training […]
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After nearly three decades in the United States, Yazbeth Ortiz returned to Mexico to be a wellness coach in San Miguel De Allende and found what she had been teaching all along. Yazbeth Ortiz spent nearly thirty years in the United States. Thirty years of building, achieving, and gradually realizing that something fundamental was missing […]
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Jonathane Cupido didn’t come to Mexico looking for a new life. He came looking for a reason to keep the one he had. Jonathane Cupido arrived in Sayulita at one of the lowest points of his life — and found, over years he couldn’t yet imagine, healing in Sayulita he hadn’t known to look for. […]
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Cara Shanti came to Puerto Escondido for the surf. Seven years later, she is still here….and entirely different. Cara Shanti was only supposed to stay for six months. She had been backpacking for four years (Asia, Australia, New Zealand), living out of a pack, constantly moving, the way long-term travelers do when momentum becomes its […]
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Introducing Raíces — a new series from EnForma about the wellness providers who put down roots in Mexico, and why EnForma Wellness was not built in a conference room or launched from a co-working space in a city that made sense on paper. It was born in Mexico — in Sayulita, during the unusual quiet […]
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Most wellness routines don’t fail because people lack discipline. They fail because they’re built backward; designed around an idealized version of a life someone doesn’t yet have, rather than the actual one they’re living. The gap between the two is where every abandoned morning routine, unused yoga mat, and half-finished meditation app subscription comes from. […]
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Somewhere between skepticism and surrender sits a question a lot of travelers find themselves asking in Mexico: not “does this work,” but “what would happen if I let it.” Past life regression tends to arrive at that question sideways. It isn’t marketed the way a massage or a yoga class is. It’s something people hear […]
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Sayulita had its moment. Tulum had its moment. Now the wellness world is turning its attention south along the Oaxacan coast, to Puerto Escondido, a fishing-town-turned-surf-mecca that has spent the last decade quietly building something less curated and more real. Puerto Escondido has never tried to be a wellness destination in the branded, retreat-center sense. […]
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There’s a phrase at the heart of Ayurveda that stops people in their tracks the first time they hear it: svastha — to be established in oneself. Not fixed, not optimized, not performing wellness. Simply settled, in balance, at home in your own body. That single word captures why this 5,000-year-old system of medicine keeps […]
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There is a moment every June — this year falling on June 21, 2026 — when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and simply holds. Summer solstice! The longest day. The peak of light. And then, almost imperceptibly, the slow, sacred turn back toward darkness begins. In Mexico, this moment has never […]
