Chief Yoga Instructor, Sri Gupte is an established practitioner
of 'Neopathy' developed for Ortho conditions.
Yoga Instructor, Sri Praveen Dabli has a booming voice capable of
demolishing the heavy drone of generators working in the yoga hall.
On day 1 at the yoga class, my ambition was to be able to take rice (SADYA in malayalam: please see picture for ref. and inspiration) directly from the plantain leaf spread before me, which I have never been able even to attempt for a decade.
The typical Kerala sadya leaf. The classic style of dining from this leaf
is by bowing down too heavily so that the face is not more than 6 inches
from the drumstick pieces precariously perching atop the heap of rice.
In the picture, the Swedish researchers on " Kerala : a study in survival "
have been listening to a Yoga master for10 minutes on the need for
physical fitness to relish
sadya in the manner said above. Those who have slip disk
are usually advised to just to drool watching the more agile at work on sadya leaf.
Now, after 3 months, with three tries in quick succession, I can gain just enough momentum on the fourth swing to touch the papat at the leftmost corner of the leaf. A spiritual victory indeed !
( In the cartoon, the masters could be seen giving me a heavy piece
of their mind for my reckless consumption of natural resources )
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