tea gardens

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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Yoga giving me a headache

 Its been seven years of steady yoga practice and a few before that. Not being a morning person it's still amazing that I get up at dawn to go for an yoga class. Simply put when one lives in a hot place the way I do ,the only decent time to exercise is before the sun rises. Also the slow pace of the exercise itself,the fact that over the years I can now touch my toes and do fairly convoluted poses gives me a sense of well being. I enjoy the class but not for me the emotional spiritual and physical miracles that many an yoga practitioner waxes eloquent about. June 21st has been declared world yoga day and like all the other designated days there is a frenzy of activity. Anyone and everyone is talking yoga. While the rest of the world took the practice and made it their own in the country of its origin its mired in controversy and mistrust. If something is good talk about it propagate it but don't shove it down people's throats. Remember free choice freedom to do what one wants to do. Sadly in our country it has moved from a healthy practice to one everyone is getting tired off. Overkill has never benefited anyone or anything. Children being forced to practice yoga,never mind that yoga practised the wrong way can do more harm than good. But when you take away a child leisure time and force them to do something they may have done left to themselves one has lost them already. Surely yoga must be left to the experts.shouldnt governments govern instead of acquiring lifestyle s. Till June 21 we as a people are being subjected to overkill and the jumbled conversations of the government the practitioners and the experts is adding to the din which quiet honestly isn't giving me any inner harmony,more like a splitting headache from which I am unlikely to recover before the 21 June. And so here's to me standing on my head and chanting om