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...On arrival, visitors are asked to lie on the ground and do a dust angel to sweep away the old life — and the dead leg after queueing for hours to get in....
...Each has taken Beckley in a new, for profit, direction: Rock Feilding-Mellen, 44, is developing Beckley Retreats, whose first “psychedelic healing retreats” launched this year in Jamaica and the Netherlands...
...After conversations with several students and teachers, I began to form the impression that Penland is as much a spiritual retreat as it is a centre for study....
...“We also work closely with indigenous and land-connected people to understand their physical, spiritual and cultural connection with the local environment,” the website says....
...John China, president of SVB Capital, a Californian investment company, says he has seen angels with upwards of 50 investments, discovered largely through their Silicon Valley networks....
...While Eyedealism does corporate parties, Gordon does corporate retreats....
...UBarU Camp and Retreat Center (US) 34. Warrumbungle National Park (Australia) 35. Weber County North Fork Park (US) 36. Yeongyang Firefly Eco Park (South Korea) 37....
...Notable successes Aisle411, founded by Nathan Pettyjohn, is an in-store navigation app developer, based in the Center for Emerging Technologies....
...Nowhere has the ambition of the new entrepreneurs been more apparent than in the private space race, as some of the richest internet billionaires have moved to fill the gap left by the retreat of US government...
...“There weren’t a lot of Zen Centers around.”...
...In the US, some 15.8 million people now practise yoga and they spend nearly $6bn a year on classes, equipment, retreats, clothing and yoga-related media....
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