There was a yoga course that I did in September 2005. Today I attended the first class of another programme by the same foundation. It is a good foundation to be involved with an enlightened guru leading the way – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. I had a couple of posts [1,2] on Sadhguru in the past. Yet to have the privilege of meeting him face to face. His CDs and DVDs are a very influential source by itself. I can imagine meeting him must be quite an experience of energy.
This time my pursuit of yoga was more from a purely personal development point of view. My first tryst was more from an explorational point of view – I mean I did not really have any objective at that time apart from just seeing how Yoga could help in my life. Right now, as they say, life has taught me enough lessons that I now need Yoga to sail through this smoothly. Or else I can clearly see myself drowning in a clutch of self-imposed situations. Obviously none of us wants this to happen ourselves, right? I have a wife and son with me. I ain’t alone anymore and the responsibility that it brings with it is enormous. I don’t need to overemphasise this to any of you who are married already and for those having a kid – you are probably already reading the next sentence.
Yoga is expected to take you beyond the usual experience of yourself which is limited to body and mind. And Isha Yoga has a good track record of doing that. During my earlier course with them they had transformed me into something else. Rather that sentence should be rephrased to this: during my earlier course they helped me find my true self. I had realised that all the while I was trying to be someone else and never my true self. And true states are always ecstatic states to be in. That’s why we find sadhus and munis to be in an eternal state of happiness – they have found their true state and are on a journey to explore further. I don’t expect to find anything different in this course either. Plain simple myself. And I am confident that ‘I’ am capable enough to handle whatever life throws at me henceforth. The only thing I wish not to repeat this time is: to disconnect from the practices being taught in class. I want to hold on to them and do them for the rest of my life.
Cool! Yoga huh… I tried it for some time too. I really liked how I felt that time, it sort of kept me energised through out the day. It was a nice experience… But, it involved me getting up at 5.30… And me being my lazy ol’ self just could not do it! So it all went down the drain :(
congratulations!!!! you have finally made it.
keep it up. i have been doing it myself for six yrs and i know exactly what ur talking about…even if there’s no kid……kid/or no-kid……yoga is the biggest blessing for the mankind.
Good you are doing this… lots of circumstances will make you want to give it up again, but don’t!
i wanna explore yoga too :( but my mom thinks i will lose more weight ?! is that possible ?
The best part is it makes you disciplined and organised. I can understand what it means to feel responsible. Yoga also induces a lot of positive energy. Wish you all the very best.
niveditha:
Never mind! I am sure there will be a time when Yoga will enter your life again and never go out. Even if you want to kick it out it will stay. It’s like planting a seed. If the ground (body) is not favourable then there will be no growth. But once the ground (body) becomes favourable the seed will grow into a magnificient tree. All the best!
pratibha:
Thanks! And I cannot agree with you more!
Claytonia Vices:
Thanks! Giving up is one thing I don’t want to do this time round. Grave mistake that I committed then, I don’t want to repeat it!
Meghana:
Explore it. Nobody loses weight because of Yoga. People lose weight because they want to. Yoga is the science of unifying your body and mind and looking beyond. In the process your body reaches the state it was ideally meant to be in. There is no such thing that can be called ‘bad’ while doing Yoga. The very fact that you are open to Yoga is a thing to cheer about! But remember one thing, please get initiated into Yoga under the influence of a Guru/ teacher. I would never recommend starting Yoga on the basis of a book, tv program or a DVD! All the best!
Pradeep:
Thanks!
http://ishas.blogspot.com/2008/06/second-tryst.html
[...] As you know, I did my Yoga class again this June. But this time round there was a grand climax to the class. All the participants would get to meet Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev [To know more about him, click here] in a Maha Sathsangh on Sunday, June 22 2008. Though I call it climax, this was not a climax to an end but a climax to an all new beginning. Since I had done the class I was also there at the Maha Sathsangh appropriately titled “Ananda Sangham”. [...]