Yugen LLC

"Travel, at its purest, shifts perspectives, unleashes imagination, inspires understanding and cultivates empathy, which in turn promises peace," Haupert said. "... personal transformation results in global transformation."

Travel is no longer about bucket list destinations or seeing sites to check off your list. Going back to its roots, travel is about being in the present moment, disconnecting from tech and connecting to humanity. At Yugen, we believe travel can play a transformational role in your own personal journey, and help you to truly “Find Your Y.”

Living like a local was the big travel trend 5 years ago. Now, travelers want their experiences to be life-changing, and it's ushering in a new era of 'transformational travel.' Transformational travel is said to take experiential travel — with its focus on authentic cultural experiences — to a deeper, more emotional level.

While most of us in the Northern Hemisphere associate Christmas with things like snow & roasted chestnuts, I’ve never felt the holiday spirit more than when living Down Under 🇦🇺.
Maybe it’s the unmatched annual holiday light show on St Mary’s cathedral, or attending Carols in the Domain with 100,000 others in the Christmas spirit, or the city lit up at every turn for the holidays - the Sydney summer seemed not to detract from the holidays, but made it all the more memorable.
It would be tough to discount the good friends, good food, & Aussie way of life as massive contributors, too. If you want to challenge your viewpoint of what “makes” the holidays special, you should find yourself here at Christmastime at least once in your life. It’s only when you feel something so foreign to your normal view of things that you begin to understand that even your traditions are foreign somewhere 😉. It’s experiences like these that truly expand and awaken us to greater depths of happiness and appreciation. After all, isn’t that what makes travel so special? 🥰

The best moments in life are often stumbled upon. In fact, I love travel because it’s a great canvas to watch miracles unfold. When you relax on holiday and start to allow things to just happen, you get a glimpse of your natural state of existence - a state of letting go and allowing...of love 💕 ...of releasing fear...of feeling good ☺️...of allowing joy and play 💃 and ease. And that’s when serendipity takes over.

We feel more ourselves when we travel because we drop the pretense of who we think 💭we need to be for others and just step into who we know we are - who we FEEL we are, without any restrictions of daily life.

For that reason, travel is one of the best enlighteners this world has to offer - it’s a living breathing meditation 🧘‍♀️, an embodiment of our natural state 🤸‍♀️ - the state that is our birthright - of joy and wonder and curiosity and love. So, here at Yugen we’ve developed a way for you to get into that state even before you travel - using it to help you feel your way into where you should go next instead of thinking 🧐 your way into it, allowing you to more quickly step into that zone of awareness - of awakening 💡 - that travel lends itself so nicely to. 🌄

Designing your travel from the planning phase around where is most likely to give you the feeling you want, instead of basing your destination around a checklist, puts you in a place of joy from the beginning. When you know you’ve chosen your destination based on how you want to feel rather than to check a box ✅ or try to win a contest for how many countries you’ve been to 🏆, you instantly stop worrying about “missing” something. You stop worrying about getting the perfect instagram pic📱, or showing everyone every single thing you had to eat and drink.

Instead, you allow yourself to enjoy it .

You relax into it.

You become present.

You observe it through your own eyes instead of the lens of a camera 📸.

Your measuring stick for the “perfect trip” completely changes.

Travel becomes more about feeling and being present than about what you did. And in these experiences and memories lie the power to forever change how you interact with the world around you.

We believe that if you start your trip with the right intention, that magic will unfold in even bigger and more meaningful ways than you could have ever dreamed ✨. In fact, we know it, because we’ve traveled that way, the 🌏 over, for the last 6 years. And after every trip, without fail, someone asks the question: “how did everything work out so perfectly for you?!”. Well, I can’t wait to show you 😉.

I am so excited to share this new way of viewing travel inspiration and planning because I truly believe in the transformative power that travel has - the power to reveal bit by bit to each of us our natural selves in the context of the wider world, and to give the necessary perspective and contrast in cultures to understand your own just a little more deeply. With that, I know that person by person we’ll collectively allow ourselves to step into who we truly are and not who we think we should be for someone or something else, allow just a little more magic and love in 💗, and ultimately change the world one trip at a time 🧳, one awakening at a time.

I can’t wait to show you how we’ve planned magical trip after magical trip and give you the tools to do the same! Stay tuned - app coming Spring 2020! 💫