Don’t know why, I always have a great love and respect towards yoga and meditation . I strongly believe that these two magic wands can tame my kapicita (Buddhist term for monkey mind ) which wanders here and there. Even though I tried doing yoga by seeing online classes, I had this strong desire of learning yoga under a trainer.
On my first day of induction training in APHRDI, my friend told that yoga is mandatory here. My heart filled with joy . I felt that I got a golden opportunity . Seizing the opportunity, barring few days due to some personal reasons, right from 2nd day of training till the end, I attended almost all classes
. Of course there were some days when my laziness tried to dominate my yoga love. My kapicita used to say :” Hey dear, daily you are attending yoga, It’s okay if u sleep today. U need some rest “…. But Deva ‘s whistles(Deva is our hostel coordinator) didn’t let me listen to those cunning sentences. His continuous whistles pushed me out of my bed. The moment I stepped down out of my bed, I could realise that coming out of comfort zone needs only few minutes intense mental tussle between rational part of our mind and irrational part. The moment we come out this comfort zone, we can see our hidden potential.
Now coming to my yoga journey, I really enjoyed every yoga asana… Initially when I saw Madam doing different asanas,I felt that I can’t even dare of doing them…. Initially things seemed very difficult. In bending posture, Touching my palm to my feet looked impossible. In gomukha asana,doing with left hand seemed impossible. Had the same feeling with all other tough asanas.
Crazy voice inside me was saying that I can do it with more practice. With that small faith inside me and little hope, I started doing them. Mam advised us to enjoy yoga instead of focusing on difficulty of asanas. From then I started enjoying every asana. Meanwhile, I also pushed myself out of comfort zone to bend more and to stay for more time in difficult postures. I rewarded myself with morning coffee on the day I pushed myself to do more. Efforts should be appreciated more than the final result. I diligently practised yoga…..
Hurray….One fine day, Mam said :”Give Deepika a big hand. Come on clap for her “. I got this applauds for touching my head to knees along with palms touching feet in bending posture (sitting asana)… I felt extremely happy. Along with that I could easily do the tough gomukha asana. In next few days I could do some other tough asanas with so much of ease. After doing all these, I felt like as if I conquered the world…
As Robin sharma said :
“Change is difficult in the beginning. Messy in middle and gorgeous at the end”…
Even though I’m not an yoga expert now. But at least I could bring my kapicitta under my control. 30days of yoga brought so much change in me…my concentration and confidence levels increased, my anger decreased,moodswings are a rarity now,
my face started glowing…. Of course yoga is the best facial you can ever have.
.Still need to explore more on yoga.. .. I wholeheartedly thank APHRDI for giving me this golden opportunity to attend yoga session and saila mam(our yoga trainer) for making yoga more interesting. Her kind nature, her encouraging words and her positivity inspired me so much…
… Even today my love affair with yoga continues.
Deepika
Deepika 