JEREMY LEVINE'S parents must be a bit nonplussed. Our hero studied business at Syracuse University, in New York, before going on to do his MBA in LA. Now he's teaching fire dancing on a beach in Costa Rica.
Well, not just fire dancing. His Escuela del Sol, in Montezuma, offers a list of endeavours so educational it's more a syllabus than a list of holiday activities. Basically, it involves both research and applied yoga instruction, surfing and fire dancing.
Also known as poi, fire dancing originated apparently with the Maori of New Zealand as early as 3000 BC. If so, it hasn't evolved very much. YouTube features a post of Levine performing the ancient art of what looks a lot like spinning soap-on-a-rope.
A week's fire dancing holiday costs $610 (€475), including tuition and accommodation. Actually, you might like to ascertain exactly what kind of accommodation you'll be in - not just because the website says that, if you don't specify otherwise, you'll end up sharing a room with another student, but because it shows a lot of hammocks.
Most striking of all is the information that US students enrolling in the school can get credits from their own university.
But what I'd really like to know is what a fire-dancing, yoga-bending, surfboarding dude like Levine was doing at business school in the first place. I bet his parents wouldn't mind knowing either.
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