The Prana is so high up in the mountains around Verbier in Switzerland that you feel you can fly. The air is crystalline. The water rushes cold and clean. And the natural beauty clears stress immediately. And then… when you dare to believe this is real, the awe-inspiring views take your breath away, before inviting a deepening of the inhalation, as the muscles in the walls of your abdomen relax, your diaphragm expands, and you sense a long, deep exhale naturally working its magic to release the mental and physical tensions from body, heart and mind.
The INSPIRE Yoga Festival launched in August this year. For me, as a yoga teacher, contributing and participating, I experienced an embodiment of yoga as ‘oneness’ anew. I felt, both teaching and practicing, at one with all of life: with the majestic earth beneath my feet, with the birds flying high and with the rhythm of my own heartbeat that, in the silence, I could hear.