Easy Yoga Travel Tips to Keep Up with Your Workout Routine!

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Yoga travel tips to help you maintain your exercise routine

Whether you’re looking to find a place to practice some online yoga classes or want to attend some live yoga sessions, in this guide, I will show you how you can continue your yoga practice while traveling.

Easy ways to maintain your yoga practice while traveling

Whether you are looking to stay accountable for your fitness and health, or you want to stay connected to your spiritual self, be sure to follow these tips to keep up with your yoga practice while traveling…

1. Spread your yoga mat in your hotel room

You may have enough self-motivation to roll out your yoga mat and practice your yoga sequences, but you may not feel that your hotel room is the right environment.

For me, I love to be led by a teacher in that, so I either need my laptop with a video or I have to find a yoga studio.

With two kids and luggage taking up space in the hotel room, I have to find another area.

There is usually a common area for guests in any hotel, either near the pool or in a lounge area or on the terrace.

Some hotels even have a yoga room or fitness center, and if yoga is really important to you, try to search for a hotel with these facilities at the time of booking.

If you feel self-conscious about others, here are some easy morning exercises you can follow.

2. Take your yoga mat with you

If you are on a road trip, you will have enough space to carry a yoga mat.

Even if you’re traveling with carry-on luggage, using your own mat will ensure you stay grounded. It’s also a familiar tool from home and something you associate with yoga practice in your daily life.

If you don’t allow yourself to break the routine, it won’t be hard to maintain it.

But if you don’t have space in your travel backpack, a towel or beach mat could work. You could also invest in a travel yoga mat or a mat you can take to the beach and use there.

Seize the opportunity and spend some time meditating! It’s also a form of yoga, can be done anywhere, and will help calm and focus your mind.

3. Find classes in the area you are in

My friend Em, who I traveled with to the top end of Australia, discovered Iyengar yoga classes at a Buddhist temple in Broome.

It became a daily routine for 90 minutes at 6 a.m. We stayed in Broome for 5 weeks, so that was where I really fell in love with yoga and became addicted to it.

Nowadays, there are yoga studios in most remote places in the world. If you visit the islands in Thailand or Bali in Southeast Asia, you will find a yoga studio around every corner (just like how Starbucks is ubiquitous in New York City).

And don’t forget about the wonderful yoga experiences like “goat yoga”!

How to find yoga classes while you travel

– Local community notices. I saw a weathered sign on the grass in Yallingup at Margaret River advertising yoga on the beach. It’s just a five-minute walk from my camping site. Could those stunning views of yoga be any better? Be sure to check notice boards in shopping centers, visitor centers, etc.

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Ask the locals. The locals told me about yoga classes in Exmouth that I visited – one was at the yacht club with an ocean view! I simply stopped people in the streets, or asked those who worked in shops and so on. We always discover many gems by asking locals.

– Use social media. You can also join local Facebook groups for the destinations you are visiting and ask people from there to find out where they can find local yoga classes.

– Google search. I often use Google to find yoga classes in the area I’m visiting. However, I found this task to be a futile effort, as Google can return incorrect information to users, and most yoga enthusiasts don’t have websites showcasing their classes. Through Yogatrail, I also discovered that Lululemon stores hold free yoga classes once a week! Not all of them do, so check their website if they are doing so in the area you are visiting. I thought this was great and attended one class on a Friday in Perth.

4. Stay at a place that offers yoga classes

Yoga classes are something I look for now when booking accommodations.

Many resorts offer yoga classes early in the mornings, especially the more luxurious resorts.

We had a great resort, Beacon Resort in the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, which had yoga classes every Saturday morning. I loved it!

We followed the yoga instructor into town one morning and had a yoga session together.

Karijini Eco-retreat in Karijini National Park had morning yoga classes. It was a nice start to the day with stunning views of the red wilderness.

I notice it’s increasingly showing up now as a feature for specific accommodations. The SoMeT conference we attended last month even offered morning yoga classes!

5. Enjoy a yoga retreat

What better way to practice yoga while traveling than to go to a yoga retreat?

I bet you are already planning for that if you are visiting Bali or India. I had an amazing yoga experience two years ago at Billabong Retreat outside Sydney.

It is actually on my list to escape to more of these on my own. Just imagine it as a luxury as a mom! Byron Bay or Bali are the top two on the list!

6. Get certified as a yoga teacher

What better way to enhance your yoga practice than to become a yoga teacher?

In addition to attending yoga retreats, you can find yoga teacher training camps where you can learn your unique teaching style and techniques.

After that, you can look for yoga travel jobs and become a traveling yoga teacher. This is a great way to make some money while continuing to practice yoga.

7. Online yoga classes – get a membership

I discovered online yoga classes when we were on a safari trip in Australia.

Online yoga classes helped me maintain my yoga practice, as it makes yoga portable, but since you stream the classes, it depends on internet connectivity.

I started using YogaGlo, but I have now switched to Grokker. I prefer Grokker much more, not just because it’s cheaper!

It offers more variety in health, wellness, and fitness than Yogaglo.

Although I feel that Yogaglo might have had more advanced online yoga classes. Grokker is more beginner to intermediate level.

Grokker features similar videos performed by experts in four health areas: yoga, meditation, fitness, and exercise practice and cooking.

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You are not only interested in practicing yoga, so the other workout videos are helpful for you too. I did a quick yoga session with my friend Rina from North Hills Raleigh.

+ I’m always on the lookout for healthy recipes and there are plenty of them on the Organic website with tutorial videos too.

I love how Grokker has challenges you can sign up for. I enrolled in a medium yoga challenge, a pilates challenge, and a core exercises challenge.

I choose the videos I want to do, and they are scheduled for me, which motivates me to participate.

You can also earn health points, which can be a motivator to see how much progress you’re making in your workouts.

You can try it for free for 14 days, after which it costs $14.99 a month, or you can subscribe to an annual plan that reduces it to $9.99 a month while Yogaglo costs $18 a month.

In summary, I get unlimited classes. Plus, what I love about it is that you can search for any type of class you want for any duration.

I’m sure for me, it’s the best I’ve seen online. You can learn more about Grokker here.

Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube is great for kids. My daughters do it all the time, especially when we travel. Why not have them keep up their yoga practice while they’re traveling?

8. Try Chair Yoga

You might think that yoga is all about individual yoga poses and muscle balance and cat stretches, but that’s not the reality.

Yoga is equally about working on your breath and loosening the joints and your aching right knee.

Whenever you find time to meditate and take deep breaths and practice awareness, make sure to relax your shoulder blades and stretch your spine, even if you are sitting.

If you’re on a long trip, it can be tiring on your body and muscles (thanks to the middle seat), so do some exercises to keep your body relaxed.

When practicing yoga in a chair, you’ll mainly work on your upper body, and it will require you to twist and extend your arms, fingers, and torso.

Here’s a great guide on how to practice chair yoga.

Final Thoughts

Traveling shouldn’t mean saying goodbye to your fitness routine for a while; it can be a way to empower a healthier, more active lifestyle.

I’m sure your travels will take you to wonderful places to do some yoga poses: beaches, mountaintops, parks, and ancient forests.

Hopefully, this guide helps you understand some ways to maintain your yoga practice while traveling and inspires you to keep exercising. Other ideas for fitness while traveling.

Do you have any tips for practicing yoga while traveling? Where was the best place you did yoga? Let us know in the comments.

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