Kaivalyadhama

I am officially a resident of Kaivalyadhama Yogic Hospital and Healthcare Centre, for a week anyway! While I consider myself to be a little bit of a planner, this was not thought out that well on my part. I knew I wanted to do some yoga and have some relaxation, so when a visitor said she was going t do some yoga at this place, I thought, hey, sounds good to me! So I signed up and arrived last night. Little did I know that I was coming to the oldest yoga institute in the world, in which the founder actually treated Ghandi. Little did I know I would be eating lacto-vegetarian and without COFFEE (more on this later). Little did I know that not only would I get to be doing 2 yoga sessions a day, but that I would get to naturopathy treatments, ranging from massages to mudbaths.

Today was just basic orientation and a rest day for me, this whole no coffee/caffeine thing may prove to be a challenge, I had taken 2 naps before 3:30pm! Haha, but really the main course starts tomorrow, this is the schedule:

5:30 am - wake up bell (which I will ignore until 6:15)
6:30 am - yogic shuddhi kriyas - apparently I will shoot water up my nose and it will come out of my mouth. Cleansing. So they say. Will report back on this one.
7 - 8:15 am - yoga
9 am - breakfast
9:30 am - noon - naturopathy treatments / free time
Noon - lunch
1:30 pm - 4 - naturopathy treatments
3:00 pm - herbal tea
4:30-5:30 pm - yoga
6:00 pm - lecture on something related to yoga or meditation
7:00 pm - dinner
8:00 pm - presentation on something related to yoga and/or individual silent walk

Should be great!! I am very excited to get back into yoga and the various treatments/detox sound relaxing. And obviously I will be learning a lot, and while all lectures, etc are optional, I think some of it will be really interesting. They are some great hiking trails behind the campus so I will definitely be outside a lot. There are a good mix of people/students here, they run some pretty intense yoga diploma courses and then run this hospital so a lot of older people come for treatments.

I have a stack of books to read, a journal to write in, and the out of doors to explore...here is hoping I don't need naps after every yoga session/naturopathy. But you know what? If I do, then so be it, this week is all about listening to that body of mine. More to come...