Inner Landscape
1.From SOHO to Digital Nomad: My Slow Living Experiment at "Huang Huang," Taitung.
speaker:susu(素素)
Organization & Title:晃晃書店 店長
Brief Professional Introduction
A true pioneer of digital nomadism, Suping (Susu) Lo moved to Taitung 22 years ago, leveraging her expertise in web design and programming. Having evolved from a SOHO freelancer to a bookstore and hostel founder, she excels at building vibrant communities centered on reading. Today, she focuses on slow living and self-care, establishing Taitung as a haven for healing and helping nomads rediscover their inner sense of "home" in an increasingly mobile world.
Topic Description
Long before "Digital Nomad" became a modern buzzword, Suping (Susu) Lo embarked on a life-changing experiment: moving to Taitung as a SOHO web designer 22 years ago. In this session, Susu bridges the gap between the isolated "SOHO era" and today's hyper-connected nomadic culture. She shares her profound evolution from crafting digital code to cultivating a physical sanctuary—Huang Huang Bookstore.
This talk explores Taitung not merely as a scenic backdrop, but as a "restorative field" essential for long-term self-care. Susu will discuss how "slow living" allows the soul to catch up with one's footsteps, offering practical insights on overcoming the mental fatigue of constant mobility. By sharing her journey of rooting into a local community, she invites participants to discover how Taitung can serve as a space for healing, recalibration, and finding a true sense of belonging in an increasingly transient world.
2.Healing and Rooted Wellness in Taiwan
speaker:Stephanie Tsai Karlik
Organization & Title:Mizugiri Mystery School, Founder,Guide. Anthropologist. Mystic.
Brief Professional Introduction
Stephanie, anthropologist, mystic, and author, helps guide people to become the most liberated version of themselves. She believes Taiwan is uniquely positioned to teach us about community care, healing, Chinese medicine, Japanese thought, and Austronesian indigenous wisdom.
Topic Description
Stephanie Tsai Karlik is an earthling with mostly Chinese, Iberian, and Irish roots. She is also a guide, scholar, writer, educator, mystic, healer, and sacred ceremony facilitator.
Shanghai Seduction, Stephanie’s first novel, is a colorful and realistic portrait of Shanghai's French Concession foreigners' scene in a time of great growth, wealth, and expansion for China's sexiest cosmopolis. The book was ranked #7 on Amazon’s top 10 bestselling Shanghai travel books.
After a near-death experience and a long-term struggle with physical illness, Stephanie delved more deeply into holistic healing modalities such as Japanese Buddhist ritual, folk Taiwanese ritual, reiki energy healing, sound healing, ayurvedic medicine, yoga, and Chinese medicine practices.
Nowadays, Stephanie lives in Tainan and enjoys writing, reading, teaching, doing reiki, dancing, and facilitating events to cultivate emotional and community wellness, global awareness, and liberation journeys. Stephanie is most interested in guiding humans to become the most liberated and fully expressed versions of themselves.
In this session, Stephanie will speak about ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine practices for slowing down and balancing the bodily system, moving through the discomfort of deep inner healing work, as well as living in reciprocity and respect with the people and land in Taiwan and beyond.
3.O Pinokayan A Lalan 回家之路：我打造了一個線上部落
speaker:黃詩瑜
Organization & Title:O Pinokayan A Lalan 創辦人
Brief Professional Introduction
Sasha is an Amis indigenous founder from Taitung, Taiwan. A former medical lab scientist turned digital nomad, she spent a year in Southeast Asia before returning to build O pinokayan a lalan. — a paid online community revitalizing the Amis language.
Topic Description
What if learning a language could save it —
and sustain an entire cultural economy?
Sasha is an Amis indigenous founder who quit her medical career, spent a year as a digital nomad in Southeast Asia, and returned to Taiwan with a mission: rebuild the road home for her people.
She built O pinokayan a lalan. — not just a language learning platform, but a three-part ecosystem:
An online co-learning community where members pay to learn the Amis language through live courses, AI grammar tools, and peer connection.
A network of local partner businesses in Taitung where learners speak Amis to unlock real discounts — turning cultural practice into daily consumption.
A language corpus database co-built by the community, preserving dialect differences across Amis tribes for future generations.
Every layer feeds the next.
Culture becomes economy.
Economy sustains culture.
This is what it looks like when an indigenous woman decides her language is worth building a business around.
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Always hopping from city to city but forgetting to pause and listen to your inner voice? Join our specially curated "Soul Recharge Salon" for digital nomads—we’re skipping the code and the KPIs to focus entirely on the real you! In Taitung, nature’s ultimate healing station, let’s explore the balance and sense of belonging that often gets lost in a life on the move. Through warm, cross-cultural conversations, we’ll discover how Taitung’s mountains and oceans can become your most powerful sanctuary for recovery. This is a deep dive into self-care, allowing us to recalibrate our hearts in a slower rhythm, shed that invisible digital stress, and together define what a truly warm "slow living aesthetic" looks like. Stop letting the hustle drain your battery; come share honest conversations about healing and self-care with a global community of fellow travelers. This isn't just a discussion—it’s a scheduled "mental massage" for your soul to ensure your nomadic life is about more than just racking up mileage, but is instead fueled by restorative power and pure momentum. Snag your spot now and join us in Taitung to find that version of yourself that truly sparkles!
Part of Taiwan Digital Fest (TDF), Taiwan’s largest and most iconic digital nomad festival, bringing together global nomads, creators, entrepreneurs, and local communities across Taiwan. Learn more at fest.dna.org.tw.