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Edge City: Patagonia

After having the absolute best time at Edge Esmeralda in Headlesberg, California in June 2025 and traveling all throughout the summer on a wild and wacky roadtrip from Costa Rica all the way up to El Salvador; and through the mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia with pit stops in Turkey and Germany - my travel needs were still asking to be satiated…

Thankfully, I was asked to come all the way to Argentina with Edge City for their October 2025 pop up!! I was overjoyed obviously as Patagonia is one of my favorite places in the whole world - the hikes, the views, the energy and the mountains!?

There was no way I wasn’t going.

I arrived back from Kyrgyzstan, started unpacking, doing laundry and re-packed my bags - for every type of weather - and 3 weeks later I was on the road again, starting the longest set of flights to get all the way down to San Martin De Los Andes - a city nestled deep in the Andes, 18 hours way from Buenos Aires!

(Argentina is huge 🤣)

The trip started as trips sometimes do, with delays and monkey wrenches thrown into the mix - but it ended up with so many of us - participants and facilitators alike - stranded for a bit in the airport in Buenos Aires together!

After arriving I discovered that I would be living alone - the girl destined to be my roommate cancelled right before - which I was incredibly grateful for - I am an ambivert and need sooo much alone time to recharge so I can show up the way I want too!

I was so elated to be invited back and now I had a better understanding of how Edge flows: it might seem to start fast but towards the end of the month you are traveling faster than the speed of light! At Edge Esmeralda I taught two classes a day - bookending the day with Morning Yoga and night time Crystal Bowl Sessions (or breathwork or meditation or sharing circles) and this felt pretty reasonable; BUT! when I arrived at Edge City: Patagonia I saw how open the schedule is - and I’m a problem solver who loves sharing information, hosting events and meeting amazing people - so I started to fill it up with as many events as I could - sometimes 3 events a day adding long hikes over the weekend and Ecstatic Dances every Sunday.

Even though I worked so hard, time is both fast and slow at the same time - I remember halfway through the event I planned on getting a ‘month-long’ membership at the climbing gym and my friend looked at me and said ‘the event is halfway through’ and me being in total shock! There’s barely any time to rest but the excitement becomes the wind beneath your wings!

During Edge Patagonia we spent Halloween together, spent a meteor shower together, hiked together, did acro together, ate together, did tarot and talked about astrology, cold plunged together, and danced together. I am so grateful for everyone who came to all my events and shared their breath & movement, and mornings & evenings with me. I’m so grateful to everyone I learned from and spoke to.

It was truly the event of a lifetime and everyone who was there made the event a million times better with their presence, their depth and their own personal magic.

Xoxo

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