Heli yoga for the luxury yoga practice
Heli yoga is a fairly new concept and astoundingly does not have anything to do with doing yoga in a helicopter. It does however have everything to do with yoga. So where does the heli come in? Good question. The heli becomes a part of yoga when a person has to take a helicopter ride to get to the place where the yoga is practiced.
This form of yoga is for those who want to get back to nature while getting in tune with their bodies through the use of yoga. The idea is to book one of these excursions, get on the helicopter with your day bag and the yoga instructor and fly to an otherwise unreachable outcrop of the Canadian Rockies to do yoga.
The kind of yoga practiced on the mountain will depend on your skill level and preferred style. One of the companies that are offering this, Icefield Helicopter Tours is even offering rope yoga. This particular company is based in Alberta. You can even get the Icefield helicopters to fly you to Iceland to partake of your yoga for the day. It should also be mentioned that this helicopter ride serves more than one purpose. Along with being the primary form of transportation to the site for your yoga, it is also a tour of the area.
So, for around $400 per person, you get a helicopter ride over beautiful terrain, a bottle of water, a yoga session in an entirely different environment than what you are used to, a picnic lunch with your instructor and a helicopter ride back to civilization.
When you get back from your excursion you will be the envy of your whole yoga class when they hear about your trip. As this is a new practice, not too many people have experienced it yet. Be the first in your group to get fit this way!
