Rachel Hunter may be an international superstar, but that hasn’t immunised her against the struggles of loss and grief. So when she discovered a spiritual peace in India, it was something of a revelation – one that has inspired her, she tells Emma Clifton, to help others find their own path of contentment.
Rachel Hunter was on a rooftop in India when she got a text from a good friend asking “How are you?” Nine times out of 10, that’s an easy question. But this was the exception.
Rachel was on a rooftop in India because she was completing a yoga course in the mountain-edged city of Rishikesh, where soul searchers and yogis unite, where the Beatles did their famous ashram stint, where the river Ganges flows fresh from the Himalayas, and pilgrims meet every sunset to deliver offerings to the Gods.
She was on a rooftop in India because she was grieving the death of her beloved mother, while also thinking about what the next half of her own life was going to look like as she stared down the last two years of her 40s. And even though she was revelling in the gruelling physical and emotional work filling her days there, every once in a while she would be hit by one ever-pervasive thought: “What the hell am I doing here?”
Three months later, approximately 12,400km from that rooftop, Rachel is still wrapped in her Rishikesh experience. Literally. She turns up to our interview at an Auckland café swathed in a vibrant purple shawl from Rajasthan and a long string of beads. She also smells really, really good, prompting me to ask – as non-creepily as possible – what perfume she has on. “I’m wearing India right now, that’s what’s happening,” she deadpans. “A lot of rose and sandalwood.”
この記事は Australian Women’s Weekly NZ の April 2018 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は Australian Women’s Weekly NZ の April 2018 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
PRETTY WOMAN
Dial up the joy with a mood-boosting self-care session done in the privacy of your own home. It’s a blissful way to banish the winter blues.
Hitting a nerve
Regulating the vagus nerve with its links to depression, anxiety, arthritis and diabetes could aid physical and mental wellbeing.
The unseen Rovals
Candid, behind the scenes and neverbefore-seen images of the royal family have been released for a new exhibition.
Great read
In novels and life - there's power in the words left unsaid.
Winter dinner winners
Looking for some thrifty inspiration for weeknight dinners? Try our tasty line-up of budget-concious recipes that are bound to please everyone at the table.
Winter baking with apples and pears
Celebrate the season of apples and pears with these sweet bakes that will keep the cold weather blues away.
The wines and lines mums
Once only associated with glamorous A-listers, cocaine is now prevalent with the soccer-mum set - as likely to be imbibed at a school fundraiser as a nightclub. The Weekly looks inside this illegal, addictive, rising trend.
Former ballerina'sBATTLE with BODY IMAGE
Auckland author Sacha Jones reveals how dancing led her to develop an eating disorder and why she's now on a mission to educate other women.
MEET RUSSIA'S BRAVEST WOMEN
When Alexei Navalny died in a brutal Arctic prison, Vladimir Putin thought he had triumphed over his most formidable opponent. Until three courageous women - Alexei's mother, wife and daughter - took up his fight for freedom.
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO START
Responsible for keeping the likes of Jane Fonda and Jamie Lee Curtis in shape, Malin Svensson is on a mission to motivate those in midlife to move more.