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Out of India RACHEL’S LOCKDOWN LESSONS

‘I wasn’t at home, but I was so grateful to be in India’

Back in February, Rachel Hunter sold her Los Angeles house and put all of her possessions into two storage units before flying off to India. Little did she know, the whole world was about to be turned upside down.

Since 2015, the Kiwi beauty has spent roughly a third of each year in India, alternating between the mountainous north and the tropical south.

This time, she was in the south for the celebratory event Maha Shivaratri, a festival dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.

Afterwards, Rachel, who recently turned 51, decided to stay in a yoga ashram for another three weeks to do a silent retreat. Like everyone on earth, Rachel was aware of the fact COVID-19 was

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