‘Life is, after all, yin and yang’

You couldn’t feel rage up here – or even mild irritation – no matter how hard you tried, writes Suzanne Harrington

Spending a week off road meditating up a mountain can result in a perspective shift when you re-enter the earth’s atmosphere.

A small provincial airport may seem like Heathrow Terminal 5 in its sophisticated luxe; boiling a kettle while the oven is on poses no threat to overloading the solar power; hot showers can last more than 3 minutes without using up the finite hot water and thus enraging your fellow yogis.