A run and talk exploring mindfulness in movement with Aire Libre co-founder Mauricio Diaz. Mau will lead a 6km Mindfulness Run, where it is encouraged to disconnect from data and watches and be present in the movement and group.

“What if running wasn’t about pace, distance, or performance… but about meaning?

For the past decade, Mauricio “Mau” Díaz — founder of Aire Libre — has been running across deserts, mountains, and cultures around the world. What started as a 90km run through the Sonoran Desert with the Seri people became a radical shift in perspective: running not as sport, but as ritual. As offering. As a way to connect with land, people, and something deeper within.

“What if running wasn’t about pace, distance, or performance… but about meaning?

For the past decade, Mauricio “Mau” Díaz — founder of Aire Libre — has been running across deserts, mountains, and cultures around the world. What started as a 90km run through the Sonoran Desert with the Seri people became a radical shift in perspective: running not as sport, but as ritual. As offering. As a way to connect with land, people, and something deeper within.

“What if running wasn’t about pace, distance, or performance… but about meaning?

For the past decade, Mauricio “Mau” Díaz — founder of Aire Libre — has been running across deserts, mountains, and cultures around the world. What started as a 90km run through the Sonoran Desert with the Seri people became a radical shift in perspective: running not as sport, but as ritual. As offering. As a way to connect with land, people, and something deeper within.

Through powerful, raw storytelling — from running with Indigenous communities in Mexico and the US, to witnessing strangers become family in just days — this talk explores a different way of understanding movement.

This is not about how to run faster or further.

It’s about why we run at all.

A journey into running as prayer, as celebration, as healing, and as a path back to what makes us human.”