It's just past daybreak along the Pacific Ocean in Oaxaca as I slide into my bathrobe and slippers and open the wooden doors of my two-bedroom suite at the new La Valise Mazunte . Before any other guests have stirred, I make my way to my favorite part of the property: the cliffside infinity-edge plunge pool that appears as if it’s spilling into the sea itself, though it hovers more than a hundred feet above the waves.
Photo: Courtesy of La Valise Mazunte
I settle into one of the plush sun loungers and begin my mornings as I always do. Although I have several playlists that mirror this very landscape, I abandon my headphones and dive straight into my breathwork practice, letting the ocean be my only soundtrack. It’s easy to live this enmeshed with the natural world at a place like this,