#29: Deepen Your Yoga Connection in Maharishi Vedic City, IA
Yoga practitioners will love to visit this city incorporated in Iowa in 2001 as a Vedic City. Vedas are sacred Hindi scriptures and are said to be a trove of all wisdom. A Maharishi is one who teaches mystical knowledge. Therefore, this city is meant to be a utopia of spirituality and wisdom.
The homes here were all designed in the style of Maharishi Sthapatya Vedi, an ancient Indian way of designing buildings meant to protect and nourish their residents; the town is centered around the mental, emotional, and physical health of its residents. Many celebrities have made pilgrimages to this small Iowa town, and Oprah even dubbed it “America’s Most Unusual Town.”