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With JORDANA REIM Q What if you could do what your heart longs for? Who would you need to be? Or simply: What’s possible for you? A There are a lot of beautiful places in the world to do yoga or go on a yoga retreat. What Birendra and I have built over the past couple of years with Trekking & Transformation isn’t just a beautiful place to do yoga; it’s the opportunity to face yourself, your dreams, what you are truly capable of, and to move into the “who” you truly desire to be. Like the trail to base camp, it is with one step at a time that change happens. In the mountains you’ll hear us say, “slowly, slowly” again and again. Unlike in the cities and the “normal” every day of the west, there isn’t a rush in the mountains. Time seems to slow down naturally. We all reach the destination, and, there is plenty of time for us to get there, no matter how “slow.” In the mountains we are reminded, simply by looking around any which way, that beauty is everywhere. Once we set foot on the trail, our practice is ever-more apparent: savor each moment. The accomplishment of Everest is surely coming, but the pathway there is equally exquisite. This is not to be missed in a rush to arrive anywhere, but exactly where we are. It is a huge accomplishment to make it to Everest Base Camp, but it’s nowhere near out of reach. It might be easier to achieve than you think. Once I got over the mental hurdle of believing I could, I In the mountains we are reminded, simply by looking around any which way, that beauty is everywhere. lives. We do this as individuals and as a group. designed the retreat to make sure that others could jump their mental hurdles as well. From the time anyone decides to do it, I share my practices for mental preparation at home, specifically designed meditations and practices from my “Everest Within” online coaching program, group preparation together in Kathmandu and step after step in the mountains, we overcome any obstacle, we bond like a family and move as a team. Our Trekking & Transformation Everest Base Camp retreat is designed for savoring and celebrating the precious, graceful and textured moments of our One of the key elements in our retreat is yoga, as well as techniques for meditation, tapping into intuition and accessing personal insight. We share experiences and group discussions daily, we spend time reflecting and journaling, we connect with our Nepalese hosts and we even made a day of silence and optional personal prayer time. The hardest part of this retreat is exactly as Hilary said, it is conquering ourselves: the stories in our heads that we can’t get there because we’re not fit enough or don’t have enough time or money. I promise that if you set out on this journey, you’ll be empowered to keep going. We keep our group sizes March 2019 www.yogicherald.com 65