Staying in your private cabin, in a shared room or glamping in a bell tent on our meadow – here at Asturias Yoga you will find the perfect accommodation that suits to you! Claudia from Germany stayed in a bell tent for two months – read about her experience here.
Someone is sitting on my bed: my lizard! It notices me immediately and fast like a lightning disappears in a hidden corner. Good to have him, it eats bugs.
Almost two months did I sleep in Aly’s and Simon’s bell tent in the meadow, some distance from the community houses. A fence out of stones and wooden posts protect a little area around the tent from cows who can get on the huge meadow. I like my little home a lot:
It’s as close to nature as possible (except sleeping under the sky, which in rainy Asturias isn’t recommended), only a thin cloth between you and the outside, temperature in your home immediately adapts to the outer one, and when the sun is shining on the tent you have a sauna feeling.
The views from the meadow around this tent are fantastic, mountain chains on two opposite sides and a lovely valley with a tiny village in between. Over which the sun sets romantically with its colourful play. At night time some lights from this inhabited place remember you that civilisation is still around the corner.
Another advantage of staying in the tent is you are a little bit away from the community houses, you have your own completely tranquil shell where you can be with yourself after a yoga practice or a meditation. Whenever you feel the need to be just with you and no-one else. “Silence” refers to human sounds. Because you might hear cowbells clanging, birds singing, crickets chirring and flies and bees bumbling.
Listening to the raindrops falling a few centimetres above your head can have a meditative effect, the sound of the rain sings you into a calm and deep sleep.
Also the shape of your habitat – pyramidical – lines with yoga and meditation practice. A pyramide is the most spiritual shape of all shapes.
A bell tent is a quite big and comfortable place to live. In the middle it’s about 2,5 m high and it’s 4 m in diameter. Besides the mattress there is a chest where all your belongings fit in, and there is more than enough space on the floor for backpacks etc. Next to the bed a wooden wheel a few centimetres above the ground is a useful nighttable for candles and thousand little things.
After two months with retreats and gardening, maintaining the place, having interesting conversations, sitting twice a day at the big table to eat, cooking and cleaning together, chatting and laughing a lot, the place feels home.
I’ll miss the place and my bell tent.
