Ashleigh Freckleton

So I found out when I was in Romania because when they're interviewing you, when they park you in front of the camera in a very vulnerable situation... But how did you get to Romania?

Yeah, so there was a camp.

They've got this kind of summer camp in Costa Nesta in Romania that's over the whole month of August.

And it's sort of their biggest event of the year.

And because the person that drew me into the school was so heavily involved in going to be there,

And it actually all started because I wanted to go somewhere in August.

I wanted to go to India.

And he's like, oh, well, India, you know, it's actually monsoon season in India at the time.

So why don't you come to this festival in Romania?

That's for the entire month of August.

And it felt like it was meant to be because I was like, this is the exact timeframe that I wanted to go and do a yoga retreat.

And here it is.

it fits.

So I went to Romania for this one month camp and ended up getting into this secret women's ashram while I was there.

So there's a men's one, there's a women's one.

The friend that kind of drew me in, he was staying in the men's one.

And that kind of catapulted me towards the center very quickly.

I was a bit of an anomaly in that sense.

Most of the women that were there had been there for a really long time.

And if they hadn't been there for a really long time, they'd been there for a couple of years at least.