The course was offered during 3 time slots. One starts from 5.45AM in the morning, the second one starts from 10.30AM and the last one starts from 6.30PM. Each session lasts for 2.5 hours. I had decided to go for 5.45AM and got up at 5AM after loooong time and went to that place but couldn't find that place as it was somewhere interior. Spent some 20 minutes searching and finally got into place at 5.50AM and found that the classes got canceled as I was the only person in that batch :-(. I felt something like "ಪಾಪಿ ಸಮುದ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋದ್ರೂ ಮೊಳಕಾಲುದ್ದ ನೀರು" and I came back home at 6AM. As I was almost ready I decided to leave to office having early breakfast but my nephew wanted me to play with him for sometime and finally left to office at 8.30AM and thought that I couldn't make the course this time. At 5.20PM in the evening I noticed in my office calender that I had no meetings after 5PM entire week and decided to try for the course for evening batch. I again reached that place at 6.25PM. The instructors were happy to see me back and the course started. Felt very happy that finally I started the course.
The course started with a unusual but good introduction to everyone. I was thought to introduce myself to everyone by saying "Sangachatvam (Lets go together). I belong to you. I am Adarsh". Everyone else introduced themselves in the similar way. Then the instructor told us the following ground rules:
- Should switch off mobile phones
- Should not miss even a single class
- No alcohol
- No cigarette
- No non-veg food
- No tea
- No coffee
- No Onion, Garlic, Brinjol
- Have limited food but enough
- Have good sleep but not more
These ground rules were not difficult for me to follow as I almost have that food habit. Then instructor gave us some introduction about the course, its benefits. She first demonstrated about the vajraasana. It was not easy in the first shot for me to sit in that posture but got adjusted to it. Then she demonstrated 2 different types of pranayamas and its benefits. The first one is Ujjayi Pranayama. You can read more about this here. The second one is Bhastrika Pranayama. Then we were thought about doing both and we practiced for 30 minutes. Got the feeling of some flowing energy in some parts of the body. It was a good experience. Even though I had got up at 5AM in the morning and had only 4.5 hours of sleep the previous night, I was not feeling tired instead had some more energy left to play with my nephew after going home :-). The session concluded with a good 20 minute meditation guided by guruji's cassette. Overall a good first day of course. Keep watching for my experience on the reminder of the course.
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