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
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