Hi, I’m Tessa

Fun fact: my name spelled backward is Asset, and I like to think that’s fitting.

Fueled by Aries fire, guided by a Cancer moon, and shaped by Libra rising balance, I blend momentum, care, and harmony in everything I create. At the heart of my work is alacrity — showing up urgent, cheerful, and ready — paired with hum, a practice of listening, resonance, and return. Together, they guide how I help bridge the space between where you are and where you wish to be, through transformational travel experiences and sound journeys that invite clarity, connection, and meaningful arrival.

OUR PASSION

Following decades of working in hotels, hospitality, and travel we took our future into our own hands and founded Alacrity Destination Services.

Alacrity is here to share the experience of arriving, the joy of exploring, and the fulfillment from being connected.

We support retreat facilitators and meeting planners in holding space for deep transformation—we handle everything behind the scenes, so planners can stay fully present.

Our preplanning and onsite services are designed to provide support from planning to onsite execution. Creating a well-coordinated and rewarding experience. 

Alacrity Destination Services LLC is registered with the State of California as a Seller of Travel CST#2165015-40

My work in hospitality and leadership support has always centered on holding space for others; creating structure, flow, and experiences where people can arrive fully.

Behind the scenes of building Alacrity Destination Services, and supporting neuroscientist and leadership coach Irene Salter through Inquiring Minds, I was reminded how much care it was taking us to sustain that kind of presence.

That awareness, paired with my own healing journey, led sound meditation to become a steady daily practice offering calm, clarity, deep rest, and restoration. What began as personal care gradually revealed itself as something that wanted to be shared. I continue to offer sound at some amazing destinations.

While Alacrity supports transformational retreats and team travel hum was started when I began to recognize the need for sound to be accessible as an everyday practice, rather than something reserved for retreat or escape.

hum was created as a place where sound could meet real life.

Not as an event.

Not as a performance.

But as a steady, supportive presence.

hum exists to offer a gentle pause ...a space to arrive, settle, and listen.