after a troubled sleep, my alarm clock starts buzzing at 6.30 - time to get up, to be honest i feel like i just went to sleep, i didnt sleep that well, the emotions and impressions from last night is still to fresh in my memory.. Anandhi and her story kept me awake most of the night, i kept reflexting on my life so far, what i have achieved, what i would like to achieve still and for what higher purpose, it turned into a internal conversation about what is the price we pay for our material happiness, and to some extend how much we own, versus how much our items owns us.. - i guess my view on many things are being challenged to an extend i have never experienced before, and i feel lucky for this incredible reality check, i think we should all have one sooner rather than later...mine just completely took me by surprise - i didnt know it would be this difficult... okay any-ways so back to my morning ...
at 6.40 i am up and around - waiting impatiently for my first session of yoga, yupp, we managed to engage a instructor to come and give us lessons in yoga, and i am soo excited. So we get introduced to our instructor, a very "warm" man - that welcomes us, and then starts with the background of yoga, where it comes from, the different types of yoga.. and here it becomes interesting - personally i didnt know this, but yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline (i kinda thought it was only a bit of stretching - how naive i was, and i would soon feel that...), so now the goal of yoga, or of the person practising yoga as you might know, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity, it is indeed the "tool" if you like, to have everyone practising yoga reach his or her maximum potential - and this potential is happiness... and this is reaching through the exercises. So after the history we have some very simple breathing exercises to warm up with, a bit of bending, and moving arms up and down, each of the exercises we do, it shown slowly, then explained in details of what purpose it serves for your mind and body, and it all makes sooo much sense, we continue to do exercises for another 30 min - and i have to admit i am by now starting to break a sweat, and i can feel that my muscles are very stiff and not at all flexible, i will for sure need more training if i am to do some of the things that our instructor can do.. - but all beginning might be difficult, but after finishing of the session with a slight cool down session, i have to admit that i feel very much more relaxed, i am not sure if it happiness i feel right now, but for sure - i have indeed worked up and appetite and off to breakfast i go, time is ticking and Kumar is soon coming to pick us up.. - what a morning, what a start on my day - India is really showing itself from its charming side this morning..
at 6.40 i am up and around - waiting impatiently for my first session of yoga, yupp, we managed to engage a instructor to come and give us lessons in yoga, and i am soo excited. So we get introduced to our instructor, a very "warm" man - that welcomes us, and then starts with the background of yoga, where it comes from, the different types of yoga.. and here it becomes interesting - personally i didnt know this, but yoga is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline (i kinda thought it was only a bit of stretching - how naive i was, and i would soon feel that...), so now the goal of yoga, or of the person practising yoga as you might know, is the attainment of a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity, it is indeed the "tool" if you like, to have everyone practising yoga reach his or her maximum potential - and this potential is happiness... and this is reaching through the exercises. So after the history we have some very simple breathing exercises to warm up with, a bit of bending, and moving arms up and down, each of the exercises we do, it shown slowly, then explained in details of what purpose it serves for your mind and body, and it all makes sooo much sense, we continue to do exercises for another 30 min - and i have to admit i am by now starting to break a sweat, and i can feel that my muscles are very stiff and not at all flexible, i will for sure need more training if i am to do some of the things that our instructor can do.. - but all beginning might be difficult, but after finishing of the session with a slight cool down session, i have to admit that i feel very much more relaxed, i am not sure if it happiness i feel right now, but for sure - i have indeed worked up and appetite and off to breakfast i go, time is ticking and Kumar is soon coming to pick us up.. - what a morning, what a start on my day - India is really showing itself from its charming side this morning..
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