Yoga Tourism in Turkey

Turkish tourism in search of an alternative to the system of "all inclusive" applied to a "yoga tourism." Professor Akif Manaf, the founder of the Academy of Yoga in Turkey said that the latest trend in tourism is to combine leisure with the procedures of the SPA and yoga. Yoga Academy periodically organizes the "yoga camps" in different parts of the country, to give people a chance to experience nature via yoga. Many people go to the mountains and the nature to practice yoga, to get rid of the negative effects of urban life. Mr. Manaf said that the Academy organizes the year-round camps, where the courses last from two days to a week.


For example, the program of yoga seminars may include the following events: “Practice, recreation, swimming, traveling on the yacht, delicious vegetarian Turkish cuisine, Hammams (local baths), communication. These would be the days full of valuable practice, rest, sun, sea, communication with friends and surrounding elements. You would get the answers to your questions, revise your practice, attitude towards yourself and surrounding space, widen your picture of universe, using the "puzzles" which will form in your mind as a result of such the informational-practical seminar.”

Today there are camps in Antalya, Fethiye, Kemer, Bodrum, and the mountains of Ida.