Escaping the pandemic for a whole weekend. My first yoga retreat away with lovely real people!
Last weekend I actually went away for a much needed yoga retreat. It was all the more exciting and poignant because I have not been to any kind of "group thing" since the pandemic reared its head. Having delayed getting my vaccine for six months and then being ill for weeks afterwards, this was finally my chance to escape. It wasn't even far away, just over an hour's drive but that was enough. I packed a weekend bag (full of thermals) and left my house alone, for the first time in nearly two years! I arrived at my retreat destination, a lovely Quaker House in Surrey, checked into my spacious, warm room and wondered what on earth do I do now? I had turned my phone off for the retreat, there was no cooking or tidying to do, no work on the computer, no internet, no micro-managing, no yoga books to study. For a moment it felt rather unsettling and unfamiliar. And then I remembered, I was supposed to rest, relax and enjoy the present moment. Or failing that, I cou