The act of exploring new places is exhilarating, but the trips to and from the destination(s) can be quite a jolt to the body and mind: long flights, seats with poor back support (like nails on a chalkboard to all yogis, I’m sure…), lack of quality sleep, crossing time zones, eating foreign or convenience food, dehydration. It is exhaustive just listing, let alone experiencing it all.
Alongside settling in and acclimating, one will inevitably encounter various twists and turns that may not normally come up in everyday life: a delayed flight or train, getting lost in an unfamiliar area, losing something en route to somewhere. Whether or not we actually practice asana on our trip, these are circumstances in which we have an opportunity to truly practice yoga in its most organic form: life.
Read my post on the Hyde Yoga blog, spread the health!
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