A Mold Avoidance Sabbatical in the Moab Desert

Text and Photos by Lisa Petrison

Occasionally at the end of a yoga class, the instructor will suggest that I imagine being back in a place where I have felt especially peaceful and relaxed and happy.

Having spent more than five years of my life actively seeking out such places, I have plenty of memories to choose from. Invariably, though, the place that always comes to mind first for me is the desert near Moab, Utah.