Rachel Hunter aligned
Rachel Hunter was resident at Sadhguru’s ashram in India when the Covid-19 pandemic began gathering international force. She’d completed 19 days of silence, and 10 days later India went into lockdown. It was four more months before she was repatriated to her home in Los Angeles, but Hunter was philosophical about it.
“I ended up spending the first lockdown in an ashram,” she laughs. “It was amazing. I was very safe there. There was a lot of yoga and meditation. My nervous system is quite relaxed so it was okay. I didn’t buy into any of the drama – ‘OMG, the planes have shut down’ – it was just where I was meant to be, where I was meant to deal with things. I thought, ‘this is where I am, and this will work out.’”
And it has worked out for Hunter, 51, though it has also meant she has spent most of 2020 and part of 2021 alone.
“I’m obviously single, so I’m in a bubble by myself and because I was forever moving I couldn’t connect to anybody’s bubble as such,” she explains.
After four months in India and another four months in California she desperately wanted to see her children Renee and Liam who live in London. When the United Kingdom opened up, she booked flights but on arrival the landscape changed quickly. This meant she could wave to them and go for socially distanced walks but strictly no hugs, which was tough.
“I wasn’t going to break any of the rules because you are putting healthcare workers at risk, your own daughter at risk – you just don’t know, so it
