When you travel, are you present? Are you aware of what your body is doing and feeling when you’re traveling?By changing your environment and focusing on new experiences around you, the people, the surrounding landscape, you awaken your mind. You’re breaking out of your normal routine and allowing yourself to be self-aware. When you are self-aware is when you can start changing and improving things. Christine’s guest is Travel Coach, Author, and Podcaster, Sonia Cruz Oro.Sonia Cruz Oro is a certified travel coach, an organizational psychologist, and founder of Travel Awakens. Having experienced her own transformation through travel, Sonia helps individuals, couples and groups to enjoy travel as a means to achieve the experiences, goals and transformation they seek. Travel Awakens provides comprehensive travel and personal development service by combining the best of travel planning and life coaching. In this soulful conversation, Christine and Sonia discuss Sonia’s transition from a corporate career to creating Travel Awakens, why a year of travel was the catalyst for this transformation, and what travelers can do to make their own experiences more personally transformational.For full show notes and to access resources mentioned in this episode, head to https://www.lotussojourns.com/episode56Learn more about Lotus Sojourns and ways to be a part of the community here.Find Lotus Sojourns on Facebook, or join the Lotus Sojourns Collective, our FB community for like-hearted women.Follow us on Instagram: @lotussojourns or @souloftravelpodcastLOVE these conversations...support the production of this podcast by making a donation here! Credits. Christine Winebrenner Irick (Host, creator, editor.) Sonia Cruz Oro(Guest). Original music by Clark Adams. Editing and production by Rayna BoothSupport the show