Good Habits Even When You’re Away
Designed by BearmoreWhen the hotel room messes with your usual evening.
Feel like yourself on a work trip, instead of letting it all slide and feeling dusty the next day. Get a bit of yoga in, a walk to get your bearings, a decent meal eaten mindfully, and a wind-down that will help you sleep well even in a strange bed.
The runsheet
Unwind with yoga
YogaTwenty minutes of slow yoga can help clear a day spent folded into a plane seat or a meeting room. If yoga is not your thing, do whatever mobility work suits you best.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing yoga before being in nature
This is an excellent pairing because yoga settles mind and breath, so stepping outside can heighten sounds, scents, and colours.
Get some walking in outside
Being in natureA walk around streets you might not be that familiar with does two things: it moves the workday fuzziness out and can turn a strange place into somewhere a bit more known. Head towards where you might eat, and let the walk be the point rather than the destination.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing being in nature before eating (mindful)
This can be a good pairing because mindful eating continues the grounded feeling from outside, especially when using fresh ingredients.
A mindful meal
Eating (mindful)A room-service tray on the bed might be the default, and also where the evening disappears. But a decent meal at a table, or just away from the laptop, can change the whole night. Order what the town does well and give it your attention.
20 min activityBearmore’s thoughts on doing eating (mindful) before body scan
This is a strong combination because mindful eating already tunes interoception to taste and texture, which a scan extends across the whole body.
A body scan from bed
Body scanA body scan can do wonders to help sleep in a bed that isn’t your own. Lying still and moving attention slowly through the body can give a restless mind something to hold when everything is a bit too stimulating. Ten minutes is plenty.
10 min activityTime well spent.
1h 43m spent doing something good for yourself.
The breakdown
Burst evaluation
Wellbeing focus
About this Burst
Work trips can easily fall into a pattern: back to the room, minibar open, room service on the bed, laptop still going. This changes that and gives you an evening that gets you moving and out into wherever you have landed. It doesn’t matter if there’s no gym, you can do all of this in a room and wearing whatever is comfortable enough to move in.