Apart from software professionals, indian curry and ofcourse bollywood the biggest export India has had is Yoga... my interest in yoga was not kindled till I went to London...until then I had always heard of friends doing yoga and always imagined them in some yogic pose somewhere in the crowded streets of Mumbai....It was however in london that I actually saw yoga classes being conducted... and it all looked so calm....there were strong controlled motions, people balancing on one leg as if it was always the way God intended it..... and then ofcourse the meditation pose which always made me feel like I was missing something....
So it was not such a tough decision for me to join yoga classes.... finally I was going to get back to my roots and get a feel of yoga in India itself rather see some foreign lady doing it in front of me.... so with images of myself in calm yogic poses including ofcourse the balancing act on one foot I joined the highly acclaimed Bharat Thakur artistic yoga classes....
Only to discover a few facts about yoga and me ... firstly I cannot cheat as much in yoga as I could while I was gyming…. and the strong controlled motions are neither strong nor controlled when I DO IT.... and balancing on one foot is a lot more difficult than the yogis or the ladies from London make it look…. They are either experts or they really have big feet!!!!
But it also makes me really proud of the fact that our ancestors knew their stuff...long before any scientific discoveries were made..our ancestors knew which vein goes where, how the mind functions, what effect an image can have on the brain and most importantly how important it is to ensure that you treat your body well….
Ofcourse after a class pride in myself is a thot far far away from my mind… especially when I walk out of the class looking like I have just been in a bad street fight…. Or when I fall ignominiously on the floor while trying to do the one legged act… or when the instructor asks me what I do for a living and on hearing it asks “all the faces and noises that you make while doing yoga – do you use them in your profession as well?”….. hmmm… she might actually have a point there….
Anyways, I hope to redeem myself sometime soon….. today for the first time I did 25 “Suryanamaskarams” without supervision…. I hope to be doing 40 of them tomorrow….. and No People ...these are not the easier exercises … you can ask any yogi... a good one that is...
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Sunday, September 24, 2006
When Christy got scared....
Well finally there is one thing that stops Christy on his tracks.....a dark cinema theatre!!!
It all happened this Saturday when I decided to take my sister and christy to the new Atria Mall...unknown to me there was an entertainment centre on the 6th floor for kids...it had the usual stuff such as the bikes, video games, cars etc and the best part of it all- a 3D cinema theatre!!! I got all excited about it since I had been to one in Singapore and it was soooo much of fun....and I remember thinking Christy would have soooo much of fun in such a theatre....and so when I saw one in Mumbai I thought it was the best thing I could do for Christy.....
so off I jumped with excitement and got us three tickets....as we entered we were given the special glasses which excited Christy no end.... so there he was wearing his oversized glasses and sitting like a mini king in his throne ready for what I thought would be his first foray into the 3 D world....that was until the lights dimmed ...and the next thing I knew Christy had jumped on me, shut his eyes and totally refused to watch the movie....once in a while he would take a peek at the screen and minus his special glasses it would have scared him even more......
Ofcourse once he got of the theatre he behaved like the little king he was....no signs of the little boy who held his eyes shut and hugged his aunt throughout ....and off he went to wreck havoc on the play ground once again.... at the end of which he was pushed down by a boy half his size and got a ball thrown at his face...well no sweat .. I could sense that he clearly enjoyed this more than his aunt's attempts to introduce him to some alternate style cinema..hahah...
As for me nothing is better than when at the end of the day Christy says "East or West, Vavaaunty is the best!".... well people he said it - Not me :)....
It all happened this Saturday when I decided to take my sister and christy to the new Atria Mall...unknown to me there was an entertainment centre on the 6th floor for kids...it had the usual stuff such as the bikes, video games, cars etc and the best part of it all- a 3D cinema theatre!!! I got all excited about it since I had been to one in Singapore and it was soooo much of fun....and I remember thinking Christy would have soooo much of fun in such a theatre....and so when I saw one in Mumbai I thought it was the best thing I could do for Christy.....
so off I jumped with excitement and got us three tickets....as we entered we were given the special glasses which excited Christy no end.... so there he was wearing his oversized glasses and sitting like a mini king in his throne ready for what I thought would be his first foray into the 3 D world....that was until the lights dimmed ...and the next thing I knew Christy had jumped on me, shut his eyes and totally refused to watch the movie....once in a while he would take a peek at the screen and minus his special glasses it would have scared him even more......
Ofcourse once he got of the theatre he behaved like the little king he was....no signs of the little boy who held his eyes shut and hugged his aunt throughout ....and off he went to wreck havoc on the play ground once again.... at the end of which he was pushed down by a boy half his size and got a ball thrown at his face...well no sweat .. I could sense that he clearly enjoyed this more than his aunt's attempts to introduce him to some alternate style cinema..hahah...
As for me nothing is better than when at the end of the day Christy says "East or West, Vavaaunty is the best!".... well people he said it - Not me :)....
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Is Mumbai really the rudest city???
My first reaction to this news headline was - I want to meet the super stud that met all the 19 million mumbaities to pass such an opinion on all of us....
and then my reaction turned to asking - is it really true???
Speaking from personal experience I think this is the only city that has not been rude to me..YET....every other city that I have been to has had some issue or the other with me.... be it Delhi where it is unsafe to travel at night alone... or be it Chennai where it is unpleasant for a woman anytime anywhere...or be it my little town of kottayam where your sneeze becomes the topic of discussion with neighbours...
so it was in mumbai that I was able to blossom into an independent person...where I could just be myself and not have to care about the issues that normally accompany a person's life elsewhere...or to just put it simply- they just let you live....
On closer examination perhaps Christy might have added to the rudeness quotient of the city....I recently got a DVD with 4 animated movies in it with the hope that Christy and I could watch it together and enjoy some quality time.... Well.. that is still a dream....Christy insisted on playing one movie called "Cars" over and over again!!! As the name suggests it was about a talking, dancing red car ...and when asked whether I could borrow the DVD so that I could watch the remaining movies he totally refused!! Well all I can say is - HOW RUDE!!
and then my reaction turned to asking - is it really true???
Speaking from personal experience I think this is the only city that has not been rude to me..YET....every other city that I have been to has had some issue or the other with me.... be it Delhi where it is unsafe to travel at night alone... or be it Chennai where it is unpleasant for a woman anytime anywhere...or be it my little town of kottayam where your sneeze becomes the topic of discussion with neighbours...
so it was in mumbai that I was able to blossom into an independent person...where I could just be myself and not have to care about the issues that normally accompany a person's life elsewhere...or to just put it simply- they just let you live....
On closer examination perhaps Christy might have added to the rudeness quotient of the city....I recently got a DVD with 4 animated movies in it with the hope that Christy and I could watch it together and enjoy some quality time.... Well.. that is still a dream....Christy insisted on playing one movie called "Cars" over and over again!!! As the name suggests it was about a talking, dancing red car ...and when asked whether I could borrow the DVD so that I could watch the remaining movies he totally refused!! Well all I can say is - HOW RUDE!!
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