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After years believing his body was broken beyond repair, and in chronic pain, JP Stones found the first real evidence otherwise — alone at home, dancing to a song that made him forget. JP Stones has lived in Mexico for twelve years. He and his now-wife arrived after stepping away from the corporate world, expecting […]
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Brenda Zepeda spent years carrying pain she didn’t have the words for. Then she found it living in her hands, and built Lakshmi Massage San Miguel de Allende around every back that reminds her of her own. Massage Therapy · Obsidian Stone Work · Sound Healing Brenda Zepeda didn’t set out to become a massage […]
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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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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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Seventy kilometers south of Mexico City, surrounded by a ring of volcanic cliffs that glow amber and rose at dawn, the village of Tepoztlán occupies a valley that has been considered sacred for as long as there has been anyone here to consider anything at all. The Aztec temple to Tepoztecatl — the deity associated […]
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From Baja California Wine Country to Whale Lagoons, the Peninsula’s Healing Landscape The Baja California peninsula extends 1,250 kilometers from the US border at Tijuana to the tip at Cabo San Lucas. It is a long, thin strip of land flanked by the cold, rough Pacific on its west coast and the warm, sheltered Sea […]
