# Yoga Travel Review - Sivananda Ashram - Bahamas

The Sivananda Ashram yoga travel retreat lies on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. A brief boat ride from Nassau, the ashram truly sits in the heart of a tropical paradise. Surrounded by an authentically preserved tropical forest, the blue waters of the Atlantic, and white sand beaches, the Sivananda Ashram is aesthetically breathtaking.

Similar to tropical locales, you will have mosquitoes so pack your spray. Yoga Travel tip: to ward off skeeters, eat garlic and don't wear deodorant or perfume. Unfortunately, exactly the same tricks that repel mosquitoes also work with humans. You decide.

Right next door to the ashram is Club Med's Paradise Island resort. A genuine behemoth, Club Med boasts from casinos to water slides and could be very distracting in contrast to the ideals of simple ashram life. And when the techno from the booze-cruise hits your ears when you're trying to hold a headstand, this is actually true. Regardless of the distractions, Sivananda Ashram strives hard to uphold ashram expectations, which might or may possibly not be to everyone's tastes.

Accommodations are simple. Just how we would expect them to be if we're on an ashram yoga travel retreat. Reminder: its a yoga travel retreat, not a resort. Even the absolute most expensive rooms do not need TV or internet. This atmosphere is setup with the intention of encouraging simplicity while urging one to go inside to find happiness.

The daily schedule is structured. Morning starts at 6:00am with a meditation. Asana (posture practice) is given twice per trip to 8:00am and 4:00pm. The ultimate meditation are at 8:00pm. Both meditation and asana practices are mandatory for guests. I am aware the motivation behind strictness. It's an ashram after all, however I'm unsure I agree with this specific approach. Bodies get tired and your heart may possibly not be into practice at a particular time. I think, no you need to need to feel bad about playing themselves with loving compassion and deciding to have a break.

Meals are made twice per day and the food is 100% vegetarian. Nearly all reviews herald the caliber of the food being great. Most reviews also claim that there's not enough food offered. An on-site boutique offers snacks to supplement your diet. When you yourself have a huge American appetite like me, I'd be seeing you there.

As you may already be picking right up, the central theme at the Sivananda Ashram could be perceived as strictness. Depending on your religious openness, perhaps you are turned off the morning chants to Hindu gods. However, many yogis deep within their practice might already be used to this. For me personally, this is fine. I don't consider myself to be Hindu, but I am aware the importance of devotion and dedication of practice.

Many people that have been to Sivananda have reported which they grab a yogier-than-thou vibe at the ashram. You could have encounter this before. Someone with a huge case of yoga-snob. That is something that I completely don't agree with. Every amount of yogi, and every human being for instance, must be honored with exactly the same respect. After all, by yogic philosophy, we all carry exactly the same light within us.

To sum up, for many, the Sivananda Ashram is a great yoga travel retreat; a area for devout yogis to immerse within their **[รีวิวการท่องเที่ยว](https://taketotrippa.com/)** practices. The rigid schedules and steadfast ideals perfectly embody the thought of an ashram. For those with more of a yoga travel 'vacation' in your mind, this may possibly not be the very best choice.

Matt C. Elmore may be the founder of non-profit Prana to the People, an avowed Yoga Instructor, and website developer.