Yoga

This is India. So what to do here? Yoga.

I asked my local parents earlier where I could do some yoga. There happened to be a place nearby (well I guess everyone has a yoga place nearby, this is India) and one evening I went there to ask if they have some classes. Turned out they have class every morning and every evening at 6. The only problem was that the evening class was only for women.

So, this morning I put my alarm at 5:40. Of course the previous evening I promised myself to go to the yoga (Yes, I will do it! I will go! I am strong enough...). I ended up spending the time between 5:40 and 5:50 looking out from my room and trying to come up with excuses why not to go. I had actually thought it was raining heavily and I just went outside to confirm that and go back to sleep. As it wasn't raining I ran out of excuses. So I had to go.

I'm not sure how many different types of yoga there are. But I think they all have a few things in common: focus on breathing and nothing should hurt. I had never done yoga so this was an interesting experience: all sort of movements and streches and static muscles. It all felt good.

Advertisement in front of the yoga place. Clearly it's every morning from 6 to 7 for everyone.

There were about 15 of us, everyone else local of course. And instructor was speaking Hindi of course. So I think I missed most of the breathing stuff and so on as I didn't understand any of the explanations. A few times the instructor sat in front of me and showed me some moves but otherwise I just followed others as well as I could.

I was talking with Pyry about these yoga people. He's also attending here some yoga classes but with an almost private teacher who speaks English. So he knows a bit more of the stuff. Interestingly, there seems to be some people somewhere up in Himalayas, each living in their own caves meditating and doing yoga. Every 6 years they each come down to a village for bathing in some sacred fountain or something (not together, they all live totally separately). And then nobody sees that person again for 6 years. They are said to live in caves and nobody seems to know how/what they eat or drink. Some say they live by the energy they produce by meditating. Who knows, but many people respect them a lot around there.

I decided that I should do this yoga thing at least three times a week. As today is Wednesday, it seems natural to do it on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. According to the log book the yoga place has, everyone else does it every morning. Don't know, maybe I'll try to do it also.

But in the end, I'm most proud of getting up at 5:40! Sure, I slept a little after the yoga, but still. You all know how much I love sleeping.