Our Day Sessions are short day trips and classes that offer guests a deep cultural, spiritual, and ecological dive into ancestral Mesoamerican foods and drinks in Oaxaca City.

Food of the Gods Chocolate + Maize Session

We taste pre-hispanic cacao drinks, local seeds, chocolate tastings, very rare types of chocolate, and heirloom maize foods. We endeavour to learn about the mysterious paths of the humble cacao bean and the corn cob from their beginnings to its modern incarnations today. Guests are challenged to consider their approach to the vast differences in taste, textures, and context that root Oaxacan and Western chocolate traditions. We ask how all of this might inform our relations to money, death, time, and ceremony.

The Spirits of Agave Session

Join us for a flight or tasting of three ancient maguey/agave beverages. We endeavour to learn about the mysterious path of maguey, the Goddess Mayahuel, and the moon. Guests are challenged to consider their approach to the vast differences in taste, textures, and context that root Oaxacan and Western traditions. We ask how all of this might inform our relations to farming, elderhood, sacrifice, myth, and food.

Responsible Travel 101

The seminar is not a how-to guide. There are no easy answers, or ten-step solutions that can remedy the issues facing us today. We delve deeper into the nature of travel as tourists and as foreigners. Endeavouring to ask questions that tend to survive attempts to answer them, we invite you to join us so that your travel might be couched in wonderings bigger and deeper than “sustainable” and “regenerative.” Some of the themes we focus on, which vary from session to session, include: the history, language, and nature of travel; the roots of hospitality; the difference between travel and tourism; approaching other cultures; language itself, the spells of the west, belonging & transience, and the costs and responsibility of travelling.