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5: days in a Yoga Ashram

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Av fredrik binette - 18 januari 2010 18:36

after a few days I felt at the same time a bit sore in my body,
both from sitting so much on the floor and I was really fighting to hold my spine errect to start open up my bad posture ha ha,
but of course also for the fact we were doing 4 hours asana practice everyday.
  

on top of that we had a evening special event, we were invited by the locals to attend a puja up on their holy mountain, this walk to get here was a 45 min walk wich was really steep and in the darkness with help of the flash-lights some smart yogis had. I can honestly say that it was far more hard then I expected, and far mor steap.. here in Sweden this type of group "event" would never be approved for safety reasons ha ha.


and up on the mountain top we were all super sweaty and I think most of us had our thoughts on the fact that we had to do the same thing back again, rather then enjoying the small puja for Kali that was made in a small hut on the mountain top ha ha.
but it was still a cool thing to have done, I dont regret it at all.

  



  


 

the ashram priest had done it the real way, he had walked the way barefoot, as for us the asked us if possible to do the last part barefoot since you are not expected tp have shoes on the wholy mountan. and really it was easier at the end being barefott, you got a better grip on the steap rocks & cliffs : )
 


I have now attended the intermediate classes except from the first day, and the moment I did a intermediate class I felt at home, lovely!
although there are some small differences from the way I was tought it is all very similar of course since within the same tradition.



I rather quickly understood how fortunate I have been to have
1. a great teacher [rest in peace Sivaram]
2. to learn in such a small group as we did.
- there was a lot of things you could notice when a bit less experienced teacher got to teach at the ashram classes. 


one fun thing for me here has been that even though I have hardly practiced at all I managed to do & develop my scorpio/Vrischikasana, wich has for some reason allways been a favourite asana of mine.
I love to see someone really "bendy" doing it.. beautiful


and my god, I have been sweating so much theese days here ha ha, you are su getting used to feel dirty here, and there is only cold water showers of course..

suddenly one day I realized the kind Indian bearded man who helped me the first day, that I havent seen him.. I then heard they had found out he did a lot of "ganja" so they had to trow him out of the ashram, so sad.. I really liked him and he knew all peoples name almost even though people are not all here a long time..

that is a thing I have started to notice, how hard it is to be here and meating new people and then suddenly some goes away and new ones come and you have again to get to know them a bit etc. a really strange feeling actually..


even though they have all theese roules here and the schedule it is very relaxed, they will never hunt you down if not following exactly etc.


it was quit funny at one of the satsangs the ashram director explained to us that we are expected to follow the ashram rules, and he said it is all in our personal way we see the life within the ashram, just the other day he had got a complaint about the ashram being to free and like a hotel, and at the same day in the same suggestion box someone has said they had to leave the ashram because it was to strict for them..


so everything we do & experience will have such a different outcome depending on how our characters are..

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