Travel Southeast Asia for Personal Growth Development
Yin yoga classes were plentiful in Ubud, Bali. I really enjoyed the Yoga Barn.
Travel Southeast Asia Can Help You Simplify Your Life in 30 Days
We kicked off the trip to travel Southeast Asia with an intention to Simplify Your Life in 30 Days. My plan was to record this brand new 30-Day Simplify Your Life Challenge on location in Indonesia. And also visit Malaysia and Singapore before returning home. You can read more about our intention to travel Southeast Asia and simplify our lives here:
Simplify Your Life in 30 Days: Do Less and Accomplish More
Discovering Yin Yoga by Traveling Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a mecca for the yin-style yoga that Erika Awakening practices and loves. Thus, we traveled to Ubud, Bali to the famed Yoga Barn. And we sampled some amazing yin yoga classes with some talented yin yoga instructors.
If you haven’t yet learned about yin yoga benefits, it’s time to try it! Yin yoga is fantastic for healing the body, releasing tension and stress, maintaining flexibility, and generally feeling good. Yin yoga is an essential element in anyone’s personal growth transformation repertoire.
You can read more about yin yoga in traveling Southeast Asia here:
Travel Southeast Asia to Enjoy the Benefits of Thai Massage
Erika Awakening is a powerful healer who incorporates massage into her personal growth transformation practices. Her favorite kind of massage is Thai massage. Like yin yoga, Thai massage helps to maintain the flexibility of the body. It also uses the same acupuncture pressure points as does Emotional Freedom Technique. So Thai massage is a very helpful complementary personal growth transformation practice for emotional release.
Travel Southeast Asia to Experience Personal Growth Transformation in the Holy Water
A holy water pond at Tirta Empul near Ubud, Bali
Tirta Empul Holy Water Temple in Ubud, Bali
Who Would You Be Without Your Story? Personal Growth Transformation While Traveling Southeast Asia
Travel is a fantastic personal growth transformation tool for seeing new perspectives. Perhaps when we are always in the same place, the stories we tell ourselves about what we can or can’t do seem very real. Now we are in a brand new environment and sometimes it’s easier to see a new perspective:
Who Would You Be Without Your Story?
Travel Southeast Asia and Personal Growth Transformation through Forgiveness
Erika Awakening was traveling alone in Southeast Asia, which gave her lots of time to contemplate. She also found herself in plenty of “scary” situations. So she used Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT tapping) and forgiveness mantras to tap into her faith. Having some powerful forgiveness mantras is a fantastic personal growth transformation practice. You will be amazed how much more empowered you feel with a few of these in your back pocket. (These mantras came in especially handy later in the trip when Erika Awakening ditched her plans and ended up traveling with no helmet all over the island of Phuket, Thailand on scooters with strangers.)
Simplify Your Life with Forgiveness Mantras
Travel Southeast Asia But Ditch Your Plans! Personal Growth Transformation Sometimes Surprises Us
Erika Awakening intended to spend most of her 30-day trip in Bali. The Universe had other plans. Nothing was working in Bali. Hotels were booked up, travel websites failed. Erika Awakening was super frustrated until she realized … she wasn’t meant to be in Bali. Then the travel Southeast Asia trip started to get really exciting!
Travel Southeast Asia with An Open Mind: You May End Up Somewhere Different than You Planned
After a fabulous detour to the island of Phuket, Thailand with motorbike rides from perfect strangers … the Universe made it clear the adventure was not over yet. Erika Awakening put it all on the line to follow her intuition. This led to a surprising in-person meeting with her ex in Saigon, Vietnam. The intention Erika Awakening had for this meeting was healing of the relationship. Unfortunately, her ex showed up to the meeting in body only. Still, it was an important step in the right direction of ultimately healing this relationship.
Travel Southeast Asia: Unexpected Detour to Cambodia and the Magnificent Ruins of Angkor Wat
Exploring the ruins at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia as a location-independent entrepreneur.
Although this part of the trip was seemingly “unsuccessful,” Erika Awakening felt happy anyway. That is because she was fulfilling part of her life purpose. Plus she got to see the magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat. Erika Awakening muses on what really makes us happy even under seemingly adverse circumstances here:
Why You Are Not Happy (And What to Do About It)
Travel Southeast Asia: How to Become A Location-Independent Entrepreneur
Sunset in Langkawi, Malaysia. One of the most stunning sunsets I’ve ever seen, and it’s all yours as a location-independent entrepreneur!
How to Become A Location-Independent Entrepreneur
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I would love to visit any of those places. I think a change in scenery is relaxing and life changing.
I would love to travel there for a little more personal growth. Sounds like there is a lot to learn there.
Sounds like a very enlightening trip! I would love to go there someday!
I would so love to visit Southeast Asia just for peace of mind. It seem so relaxing indeed something I so need. Thanks for sharing.
I miss Thailand! It’s been more than a decade since I visited the country. Cambodia is in my bucket list, and hopefully I can cross it out within the next two years. :)
I made it to Cambodia and Angkor Wat last year, highly recommended :)
Oh, Thailand. It has been too long since I’ve been to southeast Asia. I was not in to yoga when I last traveled there, but I can imagine how enlightening it would be.
Yea I love Thailand. I loved that I could get vegetarian green curry there too :) And yea can’t beat the massage as well. Lazy man’s yoga :)
I go to yoga classes, but only once a week. I wish I did it every day — it helps my pain so much. How neat that you travel to other cultures and experience new things! Thanks for sharing.
Yea I wish I did it every day too. Sometimes I can do a yin pose while working on the computer even. It helps keep the energy flowing. Thanks for commenting.
Southeast Asia sounds like a beautiful place. Thanks for taking me along your journey ;)
Sometimes I read your blog just so I can live vicariously through you! You are such an interesting woman with so much to offer the world. I bet Southeast Asia is indeed a very spiritual place. I felt the same way when I was on the island of Kauai, it was so beautiful and peaceful there, the food just tasted better and the people were so different than they are here on the mainland. There are so many glorious places I want to see, especially Southeast Asia.
Hi Lesley, if you loved Hawaii, you’ll love Southeast Asia. And yea Hawaii is a very spiritual place too. So is Machu Picchu.