About Awake Yoga Travel
Awake Yoga Travel integrates my lifelong passion for ecology and ecotourism, my experiences teaching and traveling internationally, and my training and practice in yoga, qigong and working with sound as a therapeutic modality.
The seed for the idea was planted during a trauma informed yoga teacher training in Costa Rica where I was moved to examine the impact of travel on unique and environmentally rich places and cultures. The outcome is a multi-pronged effort to support awareness of sustainability, design and offer sustainable retreat options, and partner with yoga schools and retreat centers to add value to their programs by creating a sustainability focus.
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The world of yoga and wellness travel to places with fragile ecosystems is growing. While we come to these places often on a journey for personal growth, a more expanded consciousness, and a desire to improve ourselves, and the world, it’s important to focus a critical lens on the realities on the ground. How are we seen? What impacts do we have? How do we add to the positive or the negative aspects of life for those who live locally, and for the local and global environment?
These questions are central to the mission of Awake Yoga Travel. I believe we have the opportunity and the responsibility to assure that our travel provides a benefit, rather than a detriment, to the people and places we visit. One fundamental means of doing this is through increasing our awareness of the social, environmental, and economic realities of our destinations, and then actively engaging to be a positive force in promoting equity and sustainability.
Awake Yoga Travel aspires to educate, support and connect travelers, yoga programs and retreat centers who have a shared interest in sustainability.