Yoga in Roatan, Honduras

Last month, my friend and colleague Kara and I were lucky enough to spend a few days on the Bay Islands in Roatan, Honduras. Directly following our medical trip for Operation Smile, we hopped on a 45-minute plane ride from San Pedro Sula and spent the weekend lounging, eating delicious food, snorkeling, zip-lining, unwinding. The highlight of the trip for me was the incredible yoga […]

The Thousand Year Journey: Oregon To Patagonia

Recently, I’ve been craving a sense of balance and structure in my life. For the last year and a half, I’ve been bouncing around the globe, coordinating and leading medical trips, and it can be insanely exhausting. Feeling particularity run down after returning from Ethiopia, I found myself online searching for some inspiration. I stumbled across this video, made by a […]

Dancing queens at 2000 Habesha

One of my favorite parts of the Ethiopian culture is the way that they so beautifully incorporate dancing and music into their culture. At 2000 Habesha, one of my favorite cultural restaurant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, they perform a variety of traditional Ethiopian dances. Eskesta is an Ethiopian term that means dancing shoulders. Through Eskesta, these dancers translate war songs, love songs, work songs, hunting songs, […]