Instead of our morning meditation session we went for a “meditation walk” up onto one of the small hills surrounding the ashram. Feeling tired and stiff. View from the valley very beautiful with the morning mist, sunrise and the sounds of peacocks in the nearby forest. We sat on the hill for half an hour or so doing the morning chants (which are always the same).
Feeling better after yoga session. We did a strange breathing exercise where you block one nostril, breath in over 4 seconds, hold the breath for 8 seconds and then breath out the other nostril over 8 seconds. It’s supposed to balance the prana (energy) between the different sides of the body.
The head of the yoga organisation is visiting today from Canada (the organisation is based near Montreal) to assign personal mantras to people tomorrow morning. A mantra is the chant you say in your head when meditating and it is considered a great honour to be given a personal one.
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