Les Voyages: 5 Ways to Make Traveling Easier on Your Body
by Katy Santiago Bowman | October 22nd, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness | tags: back, body, comfortable traveling, health, healthy traveling, healthy-eating, heavy luggage, neck, physically demanding, shoulders, travel, traveling tips, trips, vacation
I’m back from my vacation, and what an adventure it was.
And in addition to being great, I found it completely amazing how physically exhausting a vacation can be (tour bus pick-up at 6:30 a.m., plane rides, bus rides, and scary car episodes with a French taxi driver who insisted on taking all the Corsican island curves — which, did I mention, are only one lane — at 100 kilometers an hour by looking BACK at me so that I could confirm that yes, the island was beautiful, and yes, I was completely relaxed … just not right at that moment).
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Nothing can stop a perfectly good yoga practice (or day, for that matter) in its tracks like a hurting back. And sometimes, the poses you might think would help your aching body could actually be making it worse.
