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Adventurous Things To Do This Summer

Adventurous Things To Do This Summer

The time to be adventurous and cross off a few items on that bucket list of yours is now.  In both Austin and Hana, audacious activities that raise your heart rate, advance your awareness and test your nerve are waiting for you. Ready? Set. Go! Here’s what’s in store for you… Take a ride on the zip line in Austin. It may look intimidating at first but once you’re flying more than 250 feet through the air and over treetops you will be glad you took on the Prickly Pear zip line. Not to mention the challenge course that lays ahead of it. Learn the Texas Two Step. Raise your heart rate and lift your spirits as you discover a dance that takes you into another culture. Stand up paddling has a Hawaiian heritage.  This core-heavy sport stimulates...

Get Outside and Exercise: 5 Ways to Take Advantage of Spring Weather

Get Outside and Exercise: 5 Ways to Take Advantage of Spring Weather

It’s that time again—time to get that body of yours in shape and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Both Travaasa Hana and Travaasa Austin offer fun ways to stay active in the spring and upcoming months.  Take advantage with some outdoor exercise! Travassa Hana offers a kayak and snorkeling guided tour.  Paddle an easy-to-use kayak to the legendary Hana Bay and snorkel through clear waters with schools of tropical fish and purple coral.  Swimming is beneficial for muscle systems and your heart and is easy on joints. Hana’s views make it easy to stay outside.  Wake yourself up with a walk and stretch along the coastline.  This non static technique called active isolated stretching helps reduce stress, increase elasticity, develop joint range and motion...

Take a Travaasa Trail Ride

Take a Travaasa Trail Ride

There is nothing more Texas than getting on the back of a horse and riding through the Texas Hill Country and at Travaasa Austin, we have that authentic cultural adventure available to our guests with our newly launched trail ride activity. The experience begins when guests are taken over to our Travaasa Farm to meet with Keith and Jodie, two of the finest cowboys around. After a brief introduction, guests are each paired with one of our horses, Jeeter, Hydro, Annie, Red, Jasper or Remp for a brief lessons on how to start, stop, turn and some tips on how to handle going up and down steep hills. With smaller groups, this lesson is done on a small agility course that was designed and built to allow guests to get comfortable with their horse before the trail...

May is Nurture Month at Travaasa Experiential Resorts

Before the crazy of summer comes take a moment to nurture yourself back to 100% at Travaasa Experiential Resorts. Whether you need a physical or emotional reboot, Travaasa is offering unique activities that will help you take care of yourself during the entire month of May. Our on-site experts will guide you through nurturing fitness and wellness activities that aim to cultivate the very best version of yourself. Throughout the month, guests will receive access to May’s nurture-themed activity schedule that is focused around Travaasa’s core pillars:   Fitness Enjoy our Nurturing Yoga class that is designed to restore and renew your mind, body and spirit through gentle yoga practice. If you are looking for a more joint-focused yoga class, try our Embrace...

5 Ways to Conquer Your Fears

5 Ways to Conquer Your Fears

Want to expand your horizons, be a braver person and enjoy life to the fullest? The secret isn’t fearlessness, but admitting what scares you. You have the power to push yourself further than you ever thought possible.  To help you harness your inner strength, the experts at Travaasa have complied some tips and tricks to help you conquer your fears. 1. Face Your Fears Naming something, anything, takes some of the power out of it. What exactly are you worried about? Write down your fears, put a name to them, and they’ll suddenly become much less powerful. 2. Trust Your Intuition Very simply, intuition is that little voice in your head. The one you remember after the fact when you say to yourself, “I told you that you could do it.” Listen to it, obey it,...

Got Joy?: Equine Encounters at Travaasa By Kristine Huffman

Got Joy?:  Equine Encounters at Travaasa By Kristine Huffman

If the stress of the holidays is leaving your decked halls lacking a little fa-la-la this month, you’ll need a little joy.  Two of Travaasa’s program offerings, Equine Encounters and Horseback Riding Experience, can help improve your ability to connect, de-stress and feel joy. “Horses are a reflection of who we are,” says Keith Moon, Travaasa Austin’s Equine Manager. “They hold up a mirror to us to tell us about ourselves.”  Keith describes a typical Encounter where the Equine team teaches guests how to integrate with the horses to become a part of the herd.   During a class, guests will interact with the whole herd, select, halter and groom a specific horse, and then lead that horse through an exercise. Our Equine Encounters helps individuals,...