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I didn’t come to Parrot Cay seeking spiritual renewal. A few days away from my kids and office was meant to be restorative, certainly, but also my great opportunity to accomplish a hundred tasks I never seemed to have the time for at home. And so I arrived in the Turks & Caicos laden down with work to do and books to read, a cough I couldn’t seem to shake, and a long agenda of projects. But then I went to a morning yoga class in a wooden hut and somehow started down a different path. Three sides were open to the breeze, ferns, mangroves, and a glimmering ocean beyond. When it came time for a balance pose, I picked a crimson bougainvillea branch to stare at to steady myself. I have studied meditation and yoga before and have never been very good at sweeping my mind clear of thoughts, a curse of the type-A personality I suppose. But every time I felt the crosswind in that hut, it was so pleasing that I became a little more...

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