To really experience Yoga and silence is not easy and it requires discipline. I hope they’ll make great food on this Intensive course but restrain your-selves. Did you know that humans can survive on a few grains? Therefore, eat, talk and interact with each other but in a disciplined manner. Eating in a disciplined manner firstly means eating with awareness.
Being aware, being patient, chewing your food, you will notice that you eat less. You can reduce your weight in one month by chewing the food till it becomes liquid, and only then swallowing it. When you chew your food the digestion begins in the mouth and so you give less work to your body and then because you give less work to your body it has more energy to do other things that are healing. What is healing? Healing is the process of eradicating what we suffer from.
So that your body has energy for healing you need to be disciplined, or shall we call it restraint. Being aware of eating is an amazing experience. Your taste opens because of this awareness on the habit of eating. What do we usually do? We are either listening to music, watching the television or we are talking to people while we are eating. So we are only half or quarter present with what we are eating. Therefore you should be silent whilst eating and this will help you to be present and actually taste your food. If one person is not quiet, they are disturbing the whole group. We are a group; we’ve been put together for reasons we do not yet know; to learn from each other, whatever we need to learn. Without discipline we’ll all have a tough time.
Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre
Yoga Master Teacher Sharat Arora
Article derived from Intensive Course at the Himalaya Shanti Ashram,
Dharamshala, 16 March 2015
