Mindi – our founder and lead guide – has always loved traveling and also had a deep longing to serve. She used to travel for fun and then come home to her private practice to serve her community by providing access to holistic, integrative healthcare. For years, these two worlds were separate.
I mean, let’s be honest – we humans who value travel are going to travel no matter what because traveling is its own type of adventure, education, and enjoyment. Those of us who love to travel – really LOVE to travel. So why not travel but with purpose? Why not plan our trips so that they not only bring us joy, but they also benefit the communities we are visiting?
While we have served in communities all over the US, India, Thailand, and Burma, our work is currently focused in the US and the Himalayas.
There is really nothing worse than spending all of your time, money, and energy traveling to a place you have only dreamed about exploring, only to leave feeling like a tourist who just barely scratched the surface.
In our programs, this will never happen.
With Inner Ocean, you get the experience of adventure travel while also receiving numerous invitations to join the local Indigenous community during their ceremonies and rituals, opportunities to sit with their families in their homes, cooking and eating traditional foods, as well as being welcomed into their private lives as they share their fears, their desires, and their health-related concerns.
That’s because our programs are built on long-standing relationships with the Indigenous communities we serve. And our program participants get to enjoy the benefits of these reciprocal relationships by experiencing what feels like the welcoming of a deeply connected, global human family.
