Taialofa’s yoga adventures

Various islands, Samoa

from £700 per person per week
(+ 685 796400; www.rawshakti.com)

The postcard-perfect islands of the Pacific Ocean are tranquil, beautiful and remote places to recharge. For something very special, head to tropical Samoa in the South Pacific, where Robert Louis Stevenson found his paradise isle on Western Somoa and chose to live out his days. You can visit his house and get into the Samoan culture on a yoga adventure with Taialofa, an American who was born on the island of Upolu and has been practicing yoga since she was 13 years old - her mother is a yoga teacher, and she grow up living and breathing the yogic lifestyle.

A trained sivananda yoga teacher, Taialofa has studied practically every form there is and her classes are a blend of all her knowledge, but based on vinyasa flow. Come for a week or two, and join a group or arrange a private itinerary. You’ll have daily yoga and guided meditation on beaches, beside waterfalls and in village fales (houses), and visit islands such as Namua, where there’s no electricity and you sleep in open beach fales next to a lagoon. Your trip will have you dining with villagers, learning the local language, swimming and snorkeling in clean cool waters, visiting local cultural sites and caves. Taialofa’s holidays attract everyone from yoga devotees to urban professionals looking to de-stress.