A Deep Dive Back into Yoga in Turkey

Thirty years ago at 40, I was regularly travel writing for the Independent and without ever having done any yoga before, I found myself on a 10 day Ashtanga ‘holiday’ in Crete. And blimey was I thrown in at the deep end. This was before Madonna started doing it.

In 1993, yoga was still recherche and hadn’t entered its gym era. In fact, the whole transfor…