A big thank you goes out to Roxanne Giles, director of Bikram Yoga Maroochydore who has sponsored my first 30 day challenge!

As I begin contacting studios around the world to lock in my destinations, it’s a great feeling knowing my home studio on the Sunshine Coast is supporting me from the word go by providing my first month of yoga on the house!

When I started planning my 12 destinations about 2 years ago, hunching over a world map, excitedly attaching little post-it notes representing each studio, I realised what a tortuous process this was going to be.

There are so many studios around the world to choose from – some countries have studios with just a few blocks separating them, others have only one! And yet there are loads of countries still without any.

Whittling down the long list of countries to a diverse cross section, I realised I had to include Australia. Not just to showcase my country but also my home studio, as a way of saying thank you to Roxanne and all the instructors at Maroochydore, since that’s where the inspiration for this journey began.