The Therapeutic Travel Podcast

What draws us to travel and how does it change us? What's the difference between a traveller and a tourist? How can being out of your comfort zone help you grow? These two lovely humans couchsurfed at my place last summer. Hear about their experiences and thoughts on the benefits of travel!

Heidi has been travelling around Europe with the aim of learning as much as possible about sustainable living in view of creating that life for herself back home. There is so much we can learn from travelling when we let the world become our greatest teacher!

Introducing the wonderful human who showed me a yoga I truly connected to for the first time. We discuss: Yoga to suit your body/mind state, How yoga teaches you about life, How to translate yoga into life, What does it mean to be spiritual, Being a witch, How to use magic and the moon to guide you, Creating rhythms, routines and rituals and talking through Tarot and How to incorporate these self- care practices into travel *This episode contains some unsavoury language* Apologies!

Talking about the tricky side of tourism in Barcelona with cycle tour guide Jonathan. We explore how we can reduce our tourist footprint in the busy cities we visit. Also find out what it's like to live in one of the most touristy cities in Europe and what it's like to get beaten up by a nine year old...

Capturing a conversation with ex-philosophy professor Lino at an Ayurvedic retreat in Kerala, South India. The discussion I was having with Lino started revealing so much fascinating insight into being vegetarian/vegan, travelling and alternative medicine, that I paused to request that we record as the conversation continued to progress! We talk about spirituality, travelling back in the day and if it's ok to refuse ant soup...

I'm pleased to introduce episode number 5 with the fabulous Pearle Maaney. We met at a secluded Ayur Ayurvedic retreat and I was relieved to have someone as lovely as her to spend my time with, watching movies, taking walks to visit the local buffalo, talking about life and dancing in the rain! I hope you enjoy our little chat.

"Late blooming traveller" Veronica talks about Buddhism, teaching, mental health, happiness and how Yoga fits in to the bigger picture. We discuss some useful metaphors to make sense of meditation, what it's like to live in a Buddhist monastery and why difficult journeys can teach us a lot about ourselves and how to live our lives. Life and travel are not all that different...so just pick a direction and go!

When travellers first meet, we give eachother wanderlust, by discussing our previous experiences of the world. So here is an example. Fede and Lore have been travelling for 3 years and they talk us through their travels, the parts they cherish, the difficult times and, of course, food! We discuss India (where we recorded the interview), routine, getting sick and adapting to change in diet in a mentally healthy way!

This was the first interview I recorded for the podcast on the first day of the new year 2019...hoping to start as I mean to go on. We discuss Yoga (after having completed our teacher training together), music, meditation and life

This introductory episode, in the form of a common conversation between travellers, attempts to begin to explain what this podcast will be about... a collection of conversations about how travel can be good for you and the earth and how we can optimise it's therapeutic benefits!