Day 23 is finished and part of me feels like being released from jail. From now on I can eat what I want, decide about my own daily schedule, do my own Yoga with my own breathing rhythm and forbid people to touch me...
The other part of me is a bit anxious of how I will deal with all the temptations out there. It's a great feeling to be reduced by 6.6kg or 2-3 inches at every part of the body (including neck!), and all this with 3 meals daily and no significant exercise. I feel nicely energized and are keen to do more traveling now.
And I will miss Santosh's Yoga sessions, just when I fully deciphered is coded instructions:
moose = mouth
eaps = hips
leg fingers = toes
I'm so used to relaxing my "left feet", I can hold my breath as long as it takes him to say "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale", he made me do flexible assanas (Yoga postures), I can turn into a palmtree, a mountain or a cobra and I finally understood the meaning behind different pranayamas (breathing exercises), I can sit with folded legs for 1 hour and have surprisingly grown abs and back muscles...
I took medicine with names like Trivrilleham and Manasamitram Gulika for better (faster) digestion and the specially disgusting Guggulu Thikthakam Kashayam for better skin.
What I won't miss for a while are the massage sessions. Every day 2 treatments with oil (or sometimes milk), 4 hands touching me all over, making me feel like a piece of meat being marinated for barbecue... I must be so tender and delicious by now, if I were a pig...
On the other hand my 2 favourite massage ladies Pria and Renoga did their best to help me relax during the sessions.
Speaking of pig... I have no craving for meat whatsoever, I didn't miss that, but I'm looking forward to have something more substantial than cucumber curry now.
I also have now finished 23 days without alcohol (no problem as well), without milk products, without caffeine (especially missed my morning coffee with milk), without wheat products, without raw vegetables (always always cooked) and most importantly: without action!
And yet, it is still me ;-)
I discovered the quiet side of life which I have ignored for the last years. No worries I haven't turned into a nerdy bookworm. But doing quiet things like sitting around doing nothing exciting, enjoying food without distraction or meditation don't scare me anymore. I haven't been bored a single hour of my stay. I will try hard to fit that into my new life after travels. An era I have named my "new, better, more balanced life".
The only problem is: I have to keep that thought for the next 6-7 months, until I can consider life "normal" again...
And I will miss Santosh's Yoga sessions, just when I fully deciphered is coded instructions:
moose = mouth
eaps = hips
leg fingers = toes
I'm so used to relaxing my "left feet", I can hold my breath as long as it takes him to say "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaale", he made me do flexible assanas (Yoga postures), I can turn into a palmtree, a mountain or a cobra and I finally understood the meaning behind different pranayamas (breathing exercises), I can sit with folded legs for 1 hour and have surprisingly grown abs and back muscles...
I took medicine with names like Trivrilleham and Manasamitram Gulika for better (faster) digestion and the specially disgusting Guggulu Thikthakam Kashayam for better skin.
What I won't miss for a while are the massage sessions. Every day 2 treatments with oil (or sometimes milk), 4 hands touching me all over, making me feel like a piece of meat being marinated for barbecue... I must be so tender and delicious by now, if I were a pig...
On the other hand my 2 favourite massage ladies Pria and Renoga did their best to help me relax during the sessions.
Speaking of pig... I have no craving for meat whatsoever, I didn't miss that, but I'm looking forward to have something more substantial than cucumber curry now.
I also have now finished 23 days without alcohol (no problem as well), without milk products, without caffeine (especially missed my morning coffee with milk), without wheat products, without raw vegetables (always always cooked) and most importantly: without action!
And yet, it is still me ;-)
I discovered the quiet side of life which I have ignored for the last years. No worries I haven't turned into a nerdy bookworm. But doing quiet things like sitting around doing nothing exciting, enjoying food without distraction or meditation don't scare me anymore. I haven't been bored a single hour of my stay. I will try hard to fit that into my new life after travels. An era I have named my "new, better, more balanced life".
The only problem is: I have to keep that thought for the next 6-7 months, until I can consider life "normal" again...
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