If you told me 4 days ago that I’d be waking up on Monday morning, NOT to my usual exercise routine BUT to a session of Yoga with PP, I’d say you needed a head check! I mean, yoga and me? Exercise for me is going berserk and trying to fit in a variety of actions in a single day with the hope of tucking in those few inches on my tummy! Only, that ‘variety’ lands up in a sprained neck. Yoga Aasanas I can manage, after all physical pain lasts only a couple of days but but but… Praanayam? It’s supposed to bring about inner calm and a sense of relaxation by controlling the mind!! In my opinion, Praanayam would need Praanayam after dealing with me! 😛
I’m FAR away from meditation. The only time I actually try to control my mind, flush out thoughts and aim at relaxing is when I head to a spa! I accomplish it at the 59th minute of a 60 minute massage only to open my eyes and be guided towards the door!
Anyway, that’s long enough a prologue to my story!
This weekend PP and I checked into ‘Agni – Ayurvedic Village’, a wellness retreat that’s an absolute ‘Mallu’ treat for Kerala lovers! The place is a visual blessing with its lush green landscape and impressive architecture that’s bound to make you wonder whether you landed in Kerala! And if that wasn’t enough, the doctor, massuers and massueses are as mallu as mallu can get!!
Mind you – phone connectivity is extremely poor. You could try holding your phone at different heights and angles but that only makes people around think you’re a selfie weirdo!
It’s the most ideal place to visit if you’re looking to get yourself detoxed!
Note: What is rightfully yours reaches you someway or the other! All the oil they save on your non- oily food is generously poured over your body during each massage session!! 😀
Wide range of Ayurvedic treatments and therapeutic massages, timely meals with simple but sufficient food, a lovely pool, a library, a carrom board and badminton rackets. Last but definitely not the least – morning + evening yoga sessions!!
First yoga session – I was unsure about the whole thing because it meant getting all conscious around people and trying hard to get things right lest I get judged!
20 minutes later, I was enlightened!
1) I was a miserable fail at breathing! This point made me ponder on my very existence! I was alive because of one vital body function that I never truly appreciated or cared about!
2) I couldn’t sit down with my legs crossed. Looking at my struggle he suggested I sit comfortably, which I did, only to be laughed at!
3) Closing my ears and muttering ‘Om’ got me concentrating on others’ Oms because I was shit scared about being out of pitch and uncoordinated! 😛
The following two yoga sessions turned out way better mainly because I realised I owed by body that much and what do you know, it wasn’t as bad and tough as I dreaded! There wasn’t any breakthrough achievement but my attitude towards it had definitely changed!
I returned home a changed person after the awakening. Enlightened and purified and wise and blah blah with the hope this yoga-fever continues.. not because I hope it’ll help me lose those inches off my tummy but because I want to enjoy those few minutes of slowing-down and appreciating the small things in life, like breathing.
Reality:
Monday morning – PP and I manage to do a decent session of Praanayam + Aasanas, albeit at 8.30 am!
Tuesday morning – With each breath I take I think of the milkman who’s arrival I await! (Whoa! That’s romance another level!) I need my cup of coffee so badly that I couldn’t care less about my breathing.
P.S. Last night I had given this blog an ‘I’m all changed’ positive ending. This morning’s events led me to give it a typical my kind of ending – crazy!
Conclusion: I can’t change! I BET none of you can imagine a calm and refined Sneha! Might as well continue being the epitome of eccentricity!!
Cheers
C.A.: Confused Aquarian 