Today we’d like to introduce you to Sarah Moslemi.
Hi Sarah, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My story has never really followed a straight line. It has been more like a collection of things I loved that eventually realized they belonged together.
I’ve spent most of my adult life in the wellness world. I’m a yoga teacher and massage therapist, and over the years I built and operated yoga studios, taught thousands of classes, worked with people one-on-one, and created spaces centered around movement, connection and feeling better in your own body and life.
At the same time, travel has always been a huge part of who I am. I love what happens when we leave the familiar. Travel has a way of disrupting our routines just enough to make us pay attention again. You eat differently, move differently, meet new people, navigate unfamiliar places and often come home seeing your own life a little differently.
Eventually those two worlds came together through retreats.
What I discovered was that the yoga was important, but it was never the entire story. Some of the most meaningful moments happened outside the yoga room: biking through a new landscape, sharing dinner with people who had been strangers a few days earlier, getting a little lost, trying something uncomfortable, laughing, resting, and realizing you were capable of more than you thought.
That became the heart of Yoga Travel Adventure.
I wanted to create travel experiences where wellness supports the journey rather than dominates it, and where people don’t have to consider themselves “yogis” to belong. Yoga can be the anchor, but travel, culture, adventure, food, connection and curiosity are what fill in the rest of the experience.
Today, Yoga Travel Adventure is an extension of everything I’ve spent years building: wellness, hospitality, community and travel. It gives me the opportunity to create meaningful retreats around the world and also help others design experiences of their own.
I think, more than anything, I’ve learned that sometimes getting outside of your normal life is exactly what allows you to come back to yourself.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Not even a little. And honestly, I’m not sure I would trust a story that was.
I’ve spent most of my adult life building businesses, raising a family, teaching, creating, solving problems and figuring things out as I go. There have been plenty of seasons where I felt like I was carrying too much, changing direction, starting over, or learning something the hard way.
One of my biggest challenges has probably been learning that just because I can do everything doesn’t mean I should. I’m very comfortable being the person who fixes things, takes responsibility and keeps moving, but building something sustainable has required me to learn how to delegate, trust other people and leave room for things to evolve.
Travel itself teaches that lesson constantly. Flights change. Weather happens. Plans shift. People have different needs. You can prepare incredibly well and still have to adapt in real time. Over the years, I’ve learned that some of the best experiences come from creating a strong framework and then being willing to loosen your grip on exactly how everything is supposed to unfold.
Building Yoga Travel Adventure has also meant stepping into something new while bringing decades of experience with me. I’m not starting from scratch, but I am allowing myself to build differently this time.
The road hasn’t been smooth, but I think the detours have made me much better at creating experiences for other people. I understand that people don’t need everything to be perfect. They want to feel cared for, safe enough to stretch themselves, and free enough to actually experience where they are.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Yoga Travel Adventure ?
Yoga Travel Adventure creates small-group wellness and adventure retreats around the world, but I think what we really specialize in is helping people experience a destination rather than simply visit it.
Yoga is part of what we do, but it isn’t the entire trip. It’s the anchor. The rest might be hiking, biking, sailing, cooking with locals, exploring a village, trying food you’ve never tasted, spending an afternoon at a spa, or sitting around a table with people who were strangers a few days earlier. You absolutely do not have to consider yourself a “yogi” to travel with us.
That’s probably what sets Yoga Travel Adventure apart. I never wanted to create retreats where people fly halfway around the world only to spend most of their time inside a resort. I want people to move, explore, connect with the culture, challenge themselves a little, rest when they need to, and actually feel where they are.
My background in yoga, wellness, hospitality and years of leading people gives me a slightly different lens on travel. I’m thinking about the destination, of course, but I’m also thinking about how the experience feels. Is there enough adventure? Enough space? Are people connecting? Are we rushing? Is there a moment in the itinerary where everyone gets to exhale? Those details matter to me.
Beyond our own retreats, Yoga Travel Adventure is also growing into a place where I can help other people create retreats of their own and help travelers design meaningful trips through my work as a travel advisor.
Brand-wise, I’m probably most proud that Yoga Travel Adventure feels inclusive. Wellness travel can sometimes look very polished, exclusive or intimidating. I want ours to feel adventurous, beautiful and intentional, but also human. Come because you love yoga. Come because you love travel. Come because you need a reset. Come because you’ve never done anything like this before.
Ultimately, I want people to know that Yoga Travel Adventure isn’t about escaping your life. It’s about stepping outside of your normal routines long enough to become curious again, and hopefully bringing a little of that feeling home with you.
Risk taking is a topic that people have widely differing views on – we’d love to hear your thoughts.
I don’t think of myself as someone who takes risks just for the thrill of it. I think of risk as being willing to move before you have every answer.
Building businesses has required a lot of that. There is rarely a moment when everything is perfectly lined up and someone hands you a guarantee that your idea will work. At some point you have to trust your experience, make the best decision you can with the information you have, and go.
Travel has probably reinforced that philosophy for me. You can plan carefully, but you cannot control everything. Flights change, plans shift, people surprise you, and sometimes the thing you didn’t expect becomes the best part of the experience. I’ve learned to respect preparation without letting the need for certainty keep me from moving.
Starting Yoga Travel Adventure has been another version of that. It meant taking years of experience in wellness, retreats, hospitality and travel and giving myself permission to build something new from it. There is vulnerability in putting a new idea into the world, especially when you care deeply about what it becomes.
For me, the bigger risk has often been staying somewhere simply because it is familiar. I’d rather make a thoughtful leap, learn from what happens, and keep moving than wait for certainty that may never come.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://yoga-travel-adventure.com/
