Yoga Escapes: A Yoga Journal Guide to the Best Places to Relax, Reflect, and Renew [Paperback]

Jeanne Ricci (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2003

A great vacation should rescue the weary body and mind from the stresses of everyday life. Consider the yoga vacation: relaxing in a peaceful setting while taking healthy, invigorating yoga classes. Make this fantasy vacation a reality with YOGA ESCAPES, the definitive guide to yoga retreats, ashrams, resorts and spas, and inns and B&Bs around the world and the first in a new series of books from Yoga Journal—the leading source for yoga information. Collected by former Yoga Journal managing editor Jeanne Ricci, the listings are organized by locale and by type and describe facilities, accommodations, yoga classes, and other services, along with contact details and more, for 150-plus destinations with varying levels of yoga participation. With practical advice from Yoga Journal writers on getting started, travel tips, and comments from guests and instructors, YOGA ESCAPES provides all the incentive you need to begin planning the perfect yoga getaway.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This full-color guide profiles yoga centers, ashrams, resorts, spas and inns that cater to the yoga practitioner. Anyone interested in taking a "yoga vacation" will appreciate the more than 150 entries on yoga centers around the world, from the spartan (one in India starts at $25 per day) to the sybaritic (another in California can cost up to $2,500 per day). Each entry describes a property; lists some of its past guest instructors; discusses the content, frequency and cost of yoga classes there; profiles extra services (such as a children's program or spa treatments); and talks about rates and what to bring. What's particularly helpful about this guide is that it includes sidebar reviews of the various sites by yoga instructors and practitioners who have been there. These reviews can be very specific about what to expect in facilities, food and instruction.
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From the Publisher

More than 150 inter-national yoga retreat listings, including destinations for the entire family, the serious student, and the individual seeking fun and good health.

Information about yoga vacations is consistently the most requested information from Yoga Journal readers.

Beautiful full-color photography.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 198 pages
• Publisher: Celestial Arts; 1 edition (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1587611872
• ISBN-13: 978-1587611872
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,307,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful travel companion, December 20, 2003

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This review is from: Yoga Escapes: A Yoga Journal Guide to the Best Places to Relax, Reflect, and Renew (Paperback)

Yoga for many is not just a way of getting in shape or a way of reducing stress--it is more of a way of life or a path. As a result, yoga for these people tends to inform much of the decisions in life from grocery shopping to planning trips.
This is a great book for the later. I am presently using this book to plan a trip in the Winter, and there are so many great yoga adventures profiled that it will be hard to decide.
This is truely a wonderfully written and organized book for the people out there who want to put their toes in the sand and relax in the tropical breezes, but who also want a well-instructed yoga class to do once or twice a day.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, January 9, 2005

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john hutson (gilbert, arizona France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yoga Escapes: A Yoga Journal Guide to the Best Places to Relax, Reflect, and Renew (Paperback)

Jeanne Ricci gives us enough information to let us chose the site that best fits our individual needs.
Exactly what i needed to sift through the good to get to the great!
thanks Jeanne.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Found the perfect retreat twice, April 7, 2005

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Lucy Lu (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yoga Escapes: A Yoga Journal Guide to the Best Places to Relax, Reflect, and Renew (Paperback)

What a wonderful book! I found two perfect places to vacation AND practice yoga by reading this book (one in Europe, the other in Hawaii). This is a must have for both beginning and advanced yogis.