By Sarah Tucker
When I was young I wanted to be a nun. I watched the film The Nun’s Story with Audrey Hepburn and was fascinated by the discipline and serenity of living in a monastic world, where I would also travel to deepest Africa, helping the sick with some malarial-related disease. It would have saved on all the heartache and hassle in getting into a relationship with a real man! The fact that I wasn’t Catholic was a minor inconvenience, but as yoga is ‘on trend’ and the world seems to be in need of a global ‘Om’, I was intrigued by the idea of retreating into a monastery, which seems fit for purpose.