Yesterday was International Yoga Day and you could do your downward dog in a studio, or you could let everything off the leash and let your yoga soar in a far-flung place.
We’ve rounded up some of the most scenic spots around Asia to get your flow on because even though we know the work of yoga is internal it doesn’t hurt to have a stunning outlook.
From pool to sea to sky let your drishti drift to the tropical surroundings in this scenic yoga spot. The ocean waves act as your soundtrack for morning salutations at TIA Wellness Resort in Vietnam.
Morning yoga sessions at Banyan Tree Samui face eastwards, allowing practitioners to salute the sun as it emerges over a sparkling sapphire sea. There’s no better way to rise and shine.
The Anam Cam Ranh’s aerial yoga classes with resident yogi Umesh defy gravity in the name of wellness, suspending participants in an array of reinvigorating poses in mid-air beside the resort’s sweeping stretch of Long Beach.
Set upon 30 hectares of inspiring beachfront on Vietnam’s Cam Ranh peninsula, Alma Resort offers private yoga sessions at many scenic spots on the property, such as pavilions by one of 12 swimming pools that cascade spectacularly down to Long Beach.
There are few more amenable places in Thailand to perfect your warrior pose than at Trisara, one of Phuket’s most exclusive addresses. Yoga sessions take place on the resort’s private beach with the Andaman Sea waves washing onto shore providing a centering soundtrack.
