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good afternoon friends I am coming to
you from a very unique place right now I
am basically on the border of North
Korea China and the very tail end of
Russia which is called Primorsky Krai
which is basically translated to the
edge of the sea and the resort that we
are at right now that I'll give you guys
a tour of in just a second is a super
local there are like no tourists here it
was quite a journey to get here from
Vladivostok I think we had to dry for
about four hours but very luckily Isla
and her friend brought me here we're
gonna be here for about three days and
it's mainly supposed to be a yoga
retreat because the lady who owns it has
like trained all over the world and
every single day we usually have about
two yoga classes as well as some kind of
daily hike or some kind of other
activity so I'm really excited to see
what we all do and to just be in a place
that doesn't have cell service because
I'll be honest I've been a bit stressed
and trying to get you know so much stuff
in in this first month that I've been
traveling that I think it's gonna be a
nice break to actually not have internet
and also show you guys a little bit of
what a local Russian vacation looks like
so to give you guys an idea of where we
are staying these are the rooms that are
for the people that are doing the
retreat we have three beds in our room
and it's actually pretty comfy and then
over here is the main sort of house
where the white part is kind of our
canteen or where we have all of our
meals and then we have this brown
building which is the yoga studio and
then at the end of the day we actually
also have a meditation session which is
really cool so it's a really great deal
where all of your meals are included and
shockingly enough it's actually all
vegetarian so I am so happy about that
after kind of putting that to the side
for the last month and then over here we
have a pool which is actually pretty
great
and if you
fifteen minutes down from our little
village you'll actually be by the sea
and that's where we go paddle boarding
and then this is the yoga studio and
right now all of these sort of hammocks
are hanging because earlier today we did
that kind of like I don't know
antigravity yoga I don't know what the
proper name is but it was actually so
cool because you do hang upside down and
kind of have your looms all over and
it's just a totally different kind of
yoga that I had never done before so
this was really fun to do overall this
is aimed as a sort of health retreat but
of course if you don't feel like doing
something you don't have to do it you
can technically just go relax on the
beach if you wanted to but in the
mornings we do yoga followed by a
breakfast then we have some kind of
activity of the day whether it's like
hiking or paddleboarding then we have
lunch and then usually we have two or
three hours free in that time and then
it's another yoga session followed by
supper followed by meditation so it's
definitely a full day and it really
reminded me of my ashram visit in India
but thankfully less intense because at
that author on we were like meditating
for eight hours a day and it wasn't any
kind of yoga or any kind of physical
movement so I think this is actually a
great mix of kind of combining mind body
and spirit so this is our daily
breakfast oatmeal and fruit coffee candy
got it
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so hard to see
from the mana be away
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Emilia you are one will survive
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the town's been bad
you put smiles on it
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I think of you
and of all I should have
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Oh
you
there are cows on the beach just chillin
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so we are in an area right now that I
don't think I'm supposed to be in right
now this is like a military controlled
area kind of similar to the North Korean
border because it's like literally over
there but you know like I was born in
the Soviet Union so like close enough
but uh yeah just letting you guys know
that maybe if you come down here you
probably shouldn't ask to see the
lighthouse I'm already here so let's
hope I can get out
Klaas so we are on top of the lighthouse
I have never actually been in one where
you see the actual light vomited at the
insidiousness Eva this whole area that
we're in used to actually be a totally
restricted zone to military like
Vladivostok itself was actually a
totally closed city because it was kind
of you know their main port of defense
on that side so it's actually pretty
interesting because basically everywhere
you go in these parts there's like all
these you know different battalions and
different floors kind of protecting all
the water space so they still have quite
a bit of military around this area but
before you couldn't even like come in
here if you weren't Russian this is
crazy this is like a room of the Soviet
Union paraphernalia so crazy
so where we are going now is like the
most eastern former Soviet like military
think you can already see it right there
so that's pretty cool
holy cow what the heck is this oh my god
this is insane
this thing is huge oh look I gotta shave
it
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this is Russia so this is all blowing my
mind I have never seen anything quite
like that before and just being out here
with like dead silence
other than the crickets in a very remote
kind of zone is just not an experience I
expected to have on a yoga retreat
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you can't push it on the things you went
too far when you ship a sail
all your dreams love everything is wrong
you feel like it's your fault just sweet
I will be there for you baby
don't forget
just call
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you ever be
you got a name
Oh
you'll come up
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I will be there for you baby
you get you don't forget
just call
I was given a fresh oyster with lemon
they're like all on the bottom of the
water here and there's actually like
starfishes and everything so give the
Dow if you out the blue [ __ ] did you
cook uh uh pretty tasty
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so I don't even know if I can relate to
you guys what an epic experience I just
had I mean I've had some pretty
incredible travel experiences where I've
seen much you peach you I've been to the
base camp of Everest and I feel like
those were probably the top two that
just totally blew my mind but this is
totally up there because to be in the
middle of what looks like an ocean of
course but it's actually the sea but to
just have all this open water around you
and you're literally like standing on
water and it's actually quite peaceful
like we didn't really have that many
waves it was just the most beautiful day
and you have these incredible like
clouds on the mountains behind you and
you're literally like one with the water
I mean honestly it was just epic let me
know in the comments down below if any
of you guys have ever tried paddle
boarding because this was my first and I
honestly I'm already hooked I'm just in
love I strangely hate going on like
canoes and I'm not the biggest fan of
kayaking for whatever reason so I
thought that this wouldn't actually be
my thing but something about just like
being able to stand up and you're
engaging your whole body and you're like
so close to everything was just a very
different experience so I would highly
recommend it and I would also highly
recommend this company that we went with
and I was actually chatting with them
earlier and they said that they're
totally open to foreigners coming here
they actually have a daughter who speaks
English so it is possible to get things
translated if you don't speak English
and they offer like pickups and all that
kind of stuff
so not sponsored whatsoever just wanted
to shout out a really really cool
company I had an amazing time I'm gonna
put all of their details in the
description if you want to get ahold of
them I hope you guys enjoyed this video
I had an amazing time and the next time
that you're going to see me is probably
gonna be back in blood you've a Stoke
getting on the train to go to Habad esc'
to start my trans-siberian journey and
this has just been the most magical 3
days a very difficult physically
challenging 3 days but truly amazing so
I hope you guys enjoyed this video let
me know what you thought in the comments
down below and until I see you guys next
time
keep being your own kind of beautiful
bye guys
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just call me