by Kathryn Harley
courtesy of the Canadian Tourism Commission
Nova Scotia cycling-yoga trip is chick-trip nirvana. Freewheeling Adventures customizes tours for every woman’s taste, but the gorgeous scenery stays the same.
Two things I really like: riding my bike and yoga. But together? Downward Dog over the handlebars? Warrior pose on pedals? Silly thought, sure, but that’s what crossed my mind when I heard about Freewheeling Adventures’ Bicycle and Yoga Getaway, launched in 2006. Turns out the real thing is much smarter. No two-wheel acrobatics, just the strength and focus-enhancing benefits of yoga applied to biking, as you tour the rural seaside roads near Nova Scotia’s south shore, Freewheeling Adventures’ home base.
It’s what every woman needs—what Freewheeling co-founder Cathy Guest calls “a relaxed excursion into mindfulness.” Talk about a perfect tune-up, and a perfect tuning-in to the health/wellness vacation trend.
Freewheeling Adventures also leads international cycling tours and tours elsewhere in Canada. But it’s at home where Guest dishes up this flexible (in every sense) trip. Every tour is different, she says, because “people come with different expectations of the yoga.” Some add blow-out lunches at LaHave Bakery and a nighttime feast of fresh-from-the-sea lobster. For others, it’s vegan and silent meditation over dinner. What never varies: the beauty of the routes and the magic of saluting the sun looking across St. Margaret’s Bay to famed Peggy’s Cove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8wuUyHSzBQ&feature=related), and stretching beside the surf at Blue Rocks.
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