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“The Retreat as a Blueprint: Living, Healing, and Innovating in TerraLux’s New Earth Destinations” — with Marco Derhy
The idea of ‘retreats’ has evolved. With the urgency of the collective call to attention, it feels like taking a break from daily life is a pause that we can’t afford. However, an investment in learning to live resiliently, regeneratively, and in the right relationship with the land feels like an immediate duty. TerraLux retreats are living laboratories for the future of human habitats, born as a response to a yearning for coherence in a fragmented world. In this interview, Mayan shares the philosophy, systems, and stories behind these immersive experiences, where wellness becomes a core design principle for civilization itself.
The Gate- Built from hundreds of tree branches from OYA’s private jungle
In a time of global uncertainty and inner searching, retreats mean something different than they once did. What do you feel people truly seek when they enter a retreat space today?
The idea of retreat as escapism is losing appeal in a world where disruption is no longer distant or abstract. Across income brackets and geographies, uncertainty has become a shared reality. People are investing in tools, practices, and inner shifts that help them become more resilient in an unpredictable future. There is a growing awareness that ignorance is no longer a refuge; we’re being called to wake up, both collectively and individually. Personalisation is key; universal truths must land in a context that’s relevant to each individual. And then there’s community. Our retreats attract creators, system builders, and deeply thoughtful individuals who are shaping the world around them. The connections in these spaces become part of the integration, living support networks extending far beyond the retreat itself.
You’ve called TerraLux retreats a ‘glimpse into the future’. What sparked your desire to bring your properties into the transformational space, and how does this differ from typical wellness travel?
TerraLux retreats emerged from a deep desire to close the gap between moments of peak experience and everyday life. Our retreats aren’t just sanctuaries, they’re prototypes. Each property becomes a living model for regenerative architecture, wellness integration, and intelligent technology.
From AI-assisted nutrition and circadian lighting to biologically optimized interiors and intelligent environmental design, every detail is crafted to showcase what’s possible when health, beauty, and intelligence are integrated into the built environment. But we go a step further. We also offer the blueprint so guests can return home with the tools, cabinetry, and tech to transform their environments.
In an age of rising toxicity, physically, emotionally, and ecologically, healing must be integrated into how we live, not postponed for a getaway. While smart cities will continue to grow, we’re also seeing a parallel movement toward land-based autonomy, eco-villages, regenerative hubs, and bioregional stewardship. TerraLux retreats provide people with a tangible experience of that future.
Yoga Deck- Overlooking the heart of the jungle
Each TerraLux site carries its own regenerative philosophy and environmental intelligence. How do you design retreats around the character of the land itself?
Designing a TerraLux retreat begins with understanding the land’s ecological, economic, and cultural intelligence. Regeneration is more than just adding green elements; it’s about restoring coherence between a place and how humans inhabit it, fostering conditions within which the Indigenous ecosystem can flourish once more.
We use our Spatial Network platform to generate bioregional reports that reveal a site’s underlying conditions, its native biome, historical patterns, and local economies. This provides a foundation to build upon, enabling architecture, energy systems, water management, and even room placement to align with the land’s existing patterns. The result is not only low-impact but also highly responsive.
Once the physical design is established, we focus on experience design. The program of every retreat is shaped by the site’s unique energy, pace, and environmental features.
For example, the elevated terrain and long sightlines naturally invite a sense of reflection and calm in the Dominican Republic. We lean into slower-paced breathwork, meditative movement, and deep rest. In contrast, our Catskills property is surrounded by dense forest and naturally shielded from ambient signal pollution, offering minimal EMF interference while providing secure WiFi access when needed, making it ideal for creative incubation, tech retreats, and immersive workshops—the spacesupportsh solitude and collaboration, with features like a festival-scale fire circle and a dedicated event stage. Ultimately, what makes our retreats distinct is that they’re not imported experiences—they’re co-developed with the land itself. This approach makes them more sustainable, meaningful, and impactful for both guests and the local communities they engage with.
You’ve incorporated innovative technology into these retreats, including air purification, circadian lighting, scanners, and wellness mirrors. How does this tech deepen wellness rather than distract from it?
Our innovative systems don’t pull attention away from the present moment; instead, they quietly amplify it, helping guests tune into biological and energetic signals that are always active but rarely perceived. Whether we’re aware of it or not, our bodies respond constantly to the light in the room, the rhythm of our sleep, the nutrients in our meals, and the air quality we breathe. These factors influence mood, clarity, and energy in ways we often can’t articulate.
Our wellness tech reflects these patterns to us. Tools like scanners and AI-guided wellness mirrors don’t diagnose or dictate; they reveal. And that visibility often brings a sense of relief. Guests come to understand their somatic shifts not as random but as part of an intelligent system they can now engage with. It’s a form of participatory healing. This is where wellness meets ecology, where your breath, posture, sleep, and even your thought patterns begin to synchronize with the environment around you. Technology becomes a quiet companion in the return to coherence.
Saltwater Pool- Calm waters facing wild nature
Some people come to retreat for stillness, others for activation. How do you design a space that can hold both ends of that spectrum, and what kind of transformations have you witnessed as a result?
The retreat process is a subjective experience of the universal pulse. Some guests arrive ready to move, express, and catalyze. Others are called into stillness, silence, and deep listening. Most touch both ends of the spectrum before they leave. What’s often surprising is how challenging the stillness can be. When the nervous system finally slows and the somatic body is given space, suppressed emotions and long-ignored patterns begin to surface.
We design our spaces to support this natural unfolding. Our properties are remote enough to offer solitude and a wild expression, yet they are curated with enough beauty, comfort, and intelligent structure to feel at home. In designing spaces that can have both activation and rest, we focus on five key elements:
- Spatial Flow & Elevation Architecture that allows movement, perspective, and emotional pacing. Guests can step out of a space and see it anew from a different vantage point.
- Water Access Natural springs, oceans, or on-site wells ensure that water is always present for cleansing, grounding, and emotional release.
- Locally Sourced Food Meals that recalibrate the gut biome to align with the land, supporting inner stability during emotional flux.
- Sensory technology tools, such as bioscanners, wellness mirrors, and circadian lighting, help guests understand the invisible effects of their process.
- Program Rhythm: The sequencing of practices is curated with care, ensuring that the material being taught and facilitated is coupled with the space to land and become useful beyond the retreat itself.
The transformations we’ve witnessed are profound. People return to life with a renewed sense of purpose, leaving behind long-held trauma, pivoting careers, moving across continents, or rediscovering their innate relationship with nature. What begins as personal work often has a ripple effect. These retreats are initiations. They support a kind of essential rebirth, preparing the nervous systems, minds, and spirits that will carry the next version of humanity into its coming of age.
If the old world built cities around industry, what would it mean to build communities around restoration, creativity, and shared ritual? How do TerraLux retreats help us rehearse that possibility?
We find ourselves at a cultural threshold that calls for environmental, economic, technological, and spiritual coherence. At TerraLux, we’re exploring an evolutionary blueprint where self-care becomes a form of civic responsibility. Innovation, cohesion, and regeneration become the pillars of this new cultural architecture. Wellness is the baseline for participation in a responsive and responsible society.
Our retreats are where this future is rehearsed as a lived experience. Ritual becomes a consistent form of listening, and creativity is a playful way to approach the vital innovation needed for change. Innovative technology helps us measure what once felt intangible, the ripple effect of intention, attention, and right relationship with land. We remember that we’ve always known how to live like this; we just needed the right conditions to return to it.
Merkaba- Sacred space for stillness and connection
As the global retreat landscape evolves, what new paradigms are you hoping to seed through TerraLux, and what kinds of facilitators or visionaries are you most excited to collaborate with as this next chapter unfolds?
In a time when cities are densifying and systems are buckling, we see eco-villages as a vital frontier that needs to be done well: grounded in real intelligence and supported by real technology. We are inviting people to step into what could be their next home, their next community, or even their next way of contributing to the world. At the same time, these experiences provide us with the data and relational insights we need to refine our technologies, architecture, and culture of care.
We are building systems of synchronous stewardship across bioregions. Over time, we’ve cultivated a trusted crew of facilitators, ecotects, chefs, technologists, healers, and operations specialists who can establish eco-villages anywhere in the world. If I were to distill the call down to a single role, I would say we are seeking those gifted in facilitating ‘relational repair’, a personal relationship with the body as the gateway to long-term change. Relationship with nature, to reintroduce skills that were once second nature. Restoration in trust as a community because sustainable living is as emotional as agricultural.
Finally, we’re deeply committed to cross-cultural exchange, building retreats and communities that honour Indigenous wisdom, local knowledge systems, and multiple ways of knowing. This next chapter is the symbiotic weaving of many visions into a fabric that can sail through the storm. Consider it a call if you’re reading this and feel a resonance. Add your thread of devotion and mastery to the TerraLux loom, it’s work that belongs to all of us.
Finally, how can our readers stay updated on this new development with TerraLux?
Mayan Metzler, the visionary CEO
For anyone interested in staying connected or learning more, we invite you to visit our websites at TerraLux and our Facebook page. If you’d like to discuss this directly, please email us at [email protected] or call us at (347) 992–0410.
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E2 Lighting Unveils Comprehensive Emergency-Ready LEDs With Pre-Wired Backup Guaranteed to Pass Inspection
Grapevine, TX, October 22, 2026E2 Lighting International Inc. has officially declared the launch of its most comprehensive lineup of Emergency-Ready LED lighting fixtures. Engineered specifically to remove the headaches of field-installing backup ballasts, this code-compliant portfolio comes equipped with factory Pre-Wired Battery Backups, cutting labor costs and installation times in half for electrical contractors and specifiers. Built to Meet […]
Grapevine, TX, October 22, 2026
E2 Lighting International Inc. has officially declared the launch of its most comprehensive lineup of Emergency-Ready LED lighting fixtures. Engineered specifically to remove the headaches of field-installing backup ballasts, this code-compliant portfolio comes equipped with factory Pre-Wired Battery Backups, cutting labor costs and installation times in half for electrical contractors and specifiers.

Built to Meet the Code, Not Just Pass Inspection
For electrical contractors, architects, and spec designers, navigating stringent life-safety regulations can lead to costly delays if a third-party accessory fails.E2 Lighting eliminates this risk with a “Code-Compliant by Design” engineering approach. Every emergency fixture in the new portfolio is Guaranteed to Pass Inspection, meeting all structural and local criteria out of the box:
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UL924 & NFPA 101 Compliance: Fully certified to meet strict emergency lighting and national life-safety codes.
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90-Minute Life-Safety Operation: High-performance, integrated batteries supply an uninterrupted 90 minutes of emergency illumination during power failures.
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Zero Field Assembly: Pre-wired configurations eliminate complex wiring layout designs, reducing errors and ensuring rapid field deployment.
Immediate Value for Designers and Contractors
The expanded line seamlessly integrates reliable backup power into standard commercial layouts. Instead of patching together mismatched fixtures and battery packs, specifiers can now designate uniform, high-performance fixtures across an entire facility.
The comprehensive inventory accommodates all major commercial, industrial, and specialty architectural spaces:
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Indoor Solutions: Ultra-thin slim downlights, linear strip fixtures, troffers, and panel lights.
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Industrial & Outdoor: UFO high bays, robust wall packs, and floodlights.
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Dedicated Path of Egress: Adjustable emergency bug-eye lights and exit lighting systems.
To streamline the specification phase, E2 Lighting offers complimentary photometric lighting layouts via DIALux simulation reports, allowing designers to verify exact foot-candle code compliance before any hardware is ordered.
“We built our emergency systems directly into the fixture footprint to solve the real-world constraints contractors face on the job site,” said Michael Kwong, Organization Head at E2 Lighting International Inc. “With pre-wired systems that are fully tested and certified, we guarantee code compliance so projects stay on schedule and never get held up by an inspector”.
About E2 Lighting International Inc.
Established in 2013 and headquartered in Texas, E2 Lighting International Inc. is a premier manufacturer and distributor of commercial LED lighting solutions. The company specializes in emergency battery-integrated LED fixtures, smart building lighting systems, and specialized low-blue-light architectural environments.
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Tripio Travel Launches New Website for Door-to-Door Sales Incentive Trips
Pleasant Grove, UT, October 22, 2026Tripio Travel launches a new website to help door-to-door sales business owners plan and run all-inclusive incentive vacations, President’s Clubs, and team retreats.
Tripio Travel launches a new website to help door-to-door sales business owners plan and run all-inclusive incentive vacations, President’s Clubs, and team retreats.
Pleasant Grove, UT, October 22, 2026
Tripio Travel has launched a new website to help business owners plan incentive vacations for their door-to-door sales teams. Business owners in solar, pest control, alarm systems, roofing, and fiber industries now have one easy place to go for rewarding their top performers, without having to organize every detail themselves.

A beautiful luxury resort in Cancun Mexico featuring the ocean and a beautiful sandy beach used for door to door incentive trips by Tripio Travel
For many door-to-door sales companies, an incentive trip is one of the best ways to recognize their top performing salesmen, keep teams motivated, and build a strong company culture. The struggle is that planning a great group vacation takes a lot of time. Between booking resorts, meals, excursions, transportation, and group logistics, it can turn into a full-time job on its own.
Tripio Travel takes this off your plate by handling the planning and management of your corporate trip from start to finish.
A Website Built for Door-to-Door Sales Companies
Most travel planners are generic and aim to serve everyone. Tripio focuses on incentive travel for performance-driven businesses. Our new website makes it easy for owners to browse trip options and connect with a travel partner who understands how door-to-door sales organizations work.

door to door salesmen and saleswomen relaxing under palmfrond umbrellas on a Cancun beach during their incentive trip
Maybe you’re planning a President’s Club trip for your top reps, a summer sales incentive, or a leadership retreat. Tripio helps turn the reward into something your team looks forward to all year.
Owners searching for d2d incentive trips can use the site to learn how the planning process works, explore destinations, and start shaping a trip around their team’s goals, budget, and schedule.
All-Inclusive Planning Without the Headache
Organizing a group vacation takes more than booking a resort. Transportation, activities, dining, and schedules all have to line up so a large group can move smoothly.

Streets of japan featuring a temple rising in the background as seen during a d2d incentive trip
Tripio simplifies this with all-inclusive per-person pricing that covers accommodations, excursions, meals, and transportation. A Tripio Pro is also on-site for the entire trip to coordinate logistics and keep everything running smoothly.
That gives owners a clear picture of what an incentive trip will include and what it will cost, with far less of the usual group-travel workload. Instead of spending hours comparing hotels, lining up activities, and fielding travel questions, owners can stay focused on their businesses and on getting their teams ready to earn the reward.
Incentive Vacations That Recognize Performance
In door-to-door sales, recognition helps keep motivation high. An incentive vacation gives your reps something concrete to work toward and a chance to celebrate wins together outside of work.
Tripio plans door 2 door incentive trips tailored to each team, from top-performer vacations and President’s Clubs to leadership retreats. The goal is a memorable experience for your people, with none of the logistical burden landing on you. With an experienced team managing the planning and execution, you can offer a well-organized reward without becoming a travel coordinator.
Getting Started With Tripio Travel
It starts with a conversation about your company, group size, budget, preferred dates, and the kind of experience you want to create. From there, Tripio puts together destination options and a per-person proposal for you to review.
Once you approve the details, Tripio books the arrangements and manages the trip on the ground. That leaves you free to spend less time on travel logistics and more time enjoying the trip with your team.
The new website gives door-to-door sales business owners a central place to learn about Tripio’s services and start planning their next incentive vacation.
To learn more or start planning a company trip, visitwww.tripiotravel.com.
About Tripio Travel
Tripio Travel plans and runs incentive trips, President’s Clubs, and executive retreats for door-to-door sales companies and other performance-driven organizations. Serving industries including solar, pest control, alarm systems, roofing, and fiber, Tripio offers all-inclusive per-person pricing, coordinated travel arrangements, curated excursions, and an on-site Tripio Pro for every trip. The goal is simple: make it easier for businesses to reward their teams with travel they’ll remember.
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“At Tripio Travel, we help business owners plan door-to-door sales incentive trips, President’s Clubs, and team retreats, making it easier to organize memorable travel experiences for their teams.” — Mike Solosko, Tripio Travel
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Sumex and ST0x Bring Tokenized Equities Closer to the DeFi Ecosystem
Hong Kong, October 22, 2026Sumex, the Hong Kong-based non-custodial crypto SuperApp that brings CeFi and DeFi portfolio management, trading, investing, and rewards into one experience, is expanding its investment infrastructure around the growing intersection of traditional financial markets and decentralized finance. ST0x provides tokenized representations of real, listed shares, enabling supported assets to exist as blockchain-based tokens that can be […]
Hong Kong, October 22, 2026
Sumex, the Hong Kong-based non-custodial crypto SuperApp that brings CeFi and DeFi portfolio management, trading, investing, and rewards into one experience, is expanding its investment infrastructure around the growing intersection of traditional financial markets and decentralized finance.

ST0x provides tokenized representations of real, listed shares, enabling supported assets to exist as blockchain-based tokens that can be held in wallets, transferred on-chain, and used across compatible DeFi applications.
The collaboration brings attention to an important development in digital finance: the growing ability to access traditional-market assets through blockchain infrastructure, without treating conventional investing and decentralized finance as entirely separate worlds. It also introduces a $10,000 RWA Trading Campaign, giving users the chance to trade stocks and other real-world assets (RWAs) directly on Sumex and compete for rewards.
From Traditional Markets to On-Chain Assets
For decades, access to stocks and other traditional financial instruments has largely depended on brokerage accounts, market-specific infrastructure, and established trading hours.
Crypto introduced a different model.
Assets can be held directly in wallets, transferred between addresses, and integrated into applications that operate on blockchain networks. DeFi expanded those possibilities further, allowing compatible assets to be traded, supplied to liquidity pools, or used within lending markets.
Tokenized equities extend this model to assets linked to traditional financial markets.
ST0x issues tokens representing rights connected to real, listed shares through S01 Issuer GmbH. Its token infrastructure operates across Base, Ethereum, HyperEVM, Robinhood Chain, and BNB Smart Chain, giving developers and compatible applications additional ways to incorporate these assets into on-chain products.
This is not the same as holding a conventional share directly. While ST0x tokens do not carry shareholder voting rights of the underlying assets, they still effectively provide the same exposure to the gains those stocks can make. The entire tokenization process happens in the background, without any complex processes for the end-user, while being directly backed by the actual shares of the underlying assets 1 to 1.
The distinction matters because tokenization is not simply about putting a familiar stock ticker on a blockchain. It is about creating a structure through which traditional financial exposure can interact with blockchain-based markets.
This opens up the doors to traders and investors to easily access blue-chip equities of such companies as Apple, Google, Nike, Tesla and others – all from the comfort of their Web3 wallets.
Why Tokenized Equities Matter for DeFi
DeFi has developed a broad range of financial applications around crypto-native assets.
Users can exchange tokens, provide liquidity, borrow against supported collateral, and deploy capital through different protocols without relying on a single centralized platform for every interaction.
However, the assets available within these systems have historically been concentrated around cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-native instruments.
Tokenized equities introduce another category of potential financial exposure.
Consider an investor who wants exposure to a listed company while also maintaining access to blockchain-based applications. Depending on eligibility, token availability, liquidity, and the supported protocols, a tokenized representation of that equity may offer a way to hold and transfer that exposure through a compatible crypto wallet.
The same underlying asset can potentially become part of a broader on-chain workflow.
A token might be traded through a decentralized exchange, supplied to a supported lending market, or incorporated into another compatible DeFi application. These uses depend on the specific token, its supported networks, and the protocols that accept it.
This is where infrastructure becomes important.
Making an asset available on-chain is one step. Enabling users to discover, manage, analyze, and interact with their broader portfolio is another.
Bringing Investment Activity Into the Sumex Experience
For Sumex, the broader opportunity is not simply about adding another category of assets to crypto.
It is about helping users manage an increasingly diverse financial environment without fragmenting their workflows across multiple platforms.
Sumex brings portfolio management, trading, analytics, investing, and DeFi execution into one unified interface. Users can track their crypto portfolio across CeFi and DeFi, manage connected exchange accounts and wallets, review portfolio exposure, and access trading and investment tools from a single environment.
As blockchain-based financial products evolve, the ability to understand how different assets fit into a wider portfolio becomes increasingly important.
A portfolio may include crypto held across multiple wallets, assets on centralized exchanges, stablecoins, and positions deployed through DeFi protocols. Tokenized traditional-market assets add another dimension to that picture.
Instead of evaluating each position in isolation, investors benefit from understanding their overall exposure, the distribution of their holdings, and how different assets contribute to their broader investment strategy.
This is the context in which infrastructure such as ST0x becomes relevant to the wider Sumex ecosystem.
ST0x focuses on making tokenized equities available as blockchain-native assets. Sumex focuses on bringing different crypto activities and portfolio-management workflows together.
These are complementary directions within a financial landscape that is becoming increasingly connected.
The integration also comes with a campaign to celebrate the partnership.

The $10,000 RWA Trading Campaign
Sumex and ST0x are launching a $10,000 Trading Campaign focused on stocks and other real-world assets.
The campaign is divided into four epochs, with $2,500 in rewards for each epoch.
Participants can trade stocks and other RWAs directly on Sumex, climb the leaderboard, and compete for their share of the prize pool.
The campaign gives users a chance to explore on-chain stock and RWA trading while competing for rewards.
A More Connected Financial Environment
The separation between traditional financial markets and decentralized finance has never been entirely fixed.
Stablecoins have already demonstrated how blockchain-based assets can represent value linked to conventional currencies. Tokenized treasury products have introduced additional ways to access traditional fixed-income exposure through blockchain infrastructure.
Tokenized equities represent another development in this progression.
The next phase of on-chain finance is likely to involve a wider range of assets, financial structures, and applications working together.
ST0x contributes to this development by providing blockchain-based representations of listed equities designed for use across supported networks and compatible applications.
Sumex approaches the same evolving landscape from the perspective of the user: bringing portfolio intelligence, trading, investing, and DeFi workflows together in one place.
As these systems mature, the opportunity is to make managing digital assets less fragmented and financial participation more connected.
Not simply more assets on-chain. A more coherent way to manage them. Sumex is built around this broader need: reducing fragmentation across crypto accounts, networks, and financial workflows while giving users the tools to understand and manage their activity.
About Sumex
Sumex is a non-custodial crypto SuperApp that brings portfolio management, trading, analytics, investing, and cross-chain execution into one unified environment. Users can track and manage their portfolio across CeFi and DeFi, trade across multiple venues, access market intelligence, and execute swaps while retaining control of their assets.
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