By Andrea Sachs

The Washington Post

In a pastoral campground south of Lansing, many attendees at the Michigan Hoop Dance Retreat were hooping as if their hair was on fire. Then, Missy Cooke’s hair caught fire.

Dancing with a torch in each hand, Cooke didn’t flinch when her bun started to smolder. An audience member rushed the stage, extinguishing the fire with a towel.

“I thought I smelled something,” said Cooke, the event’s unflappable founder, after her incident at the talent showcase.

The first lesson you’ll learn here: Hula hooping retreats are not child’s play.

Pull an interest out of a hat and there’s probably a retreat dedicated to it. In the wellness field, you can spend your vacation practicing yoga or meditating, micro-tripping on psychedelics, or succumbing to a state of s

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