If you live on the road or spend days travelling in a van, your yoga practice looks like this: one day you’re flowing on a sandy beach while your mat slides in three different directions, the next you’re trying to balance on a patch of bumpy forest ground. Practicing outdoors is magical, but it definitely comes with its own set of challenges.

Before I learned how to read waves, I learned how much surfing exposes every tight spot in your body. During my time teaching yoga at Alive Beach House in Nicaragua, my mornings always started the same way: yoga at sunrise, a surfboard under the arm one and a half hours later. The following asanas became everyone’s favourite because they work: They wake up the spine, open the hips, strengthen the upper back and prepare your nervous system for the waves.