I have been participating in a three day bullet-yoga camp in India

Speaking of yoga, Indian is the real home that used to practice the Beatles a long time ago. This time I stayed at a yoga facility called "Ashram" and experienced yoga.

Hello!World newspaperIt is Akasaka Nobu, a special reporter. I am currently traveling around the world and I am in the town called Rishkeku in India.

Rishkesh is the town on the north side of India.


It is surrounded by mountains around the city, it is also a city upstream of the Ganges River, cool, relaxing and easy-going city. In the past, the Beatles are also famous for learning yoga here.


Yoga is called "yoga" in India and is thought to be a spiritual practice, way of thinking and way of life. Major yoga in Japan is one of the exercise methods that emphasizes Indian yoga posture and breathing method. And it is said that in the information of the net, participation in the general person 's ashram has been from at least two weeks. But this time, I found Ashram which I can learn from Yoga 's way of living in Rishkeku town in 3 days, so I attempted to participate dramatically in order to get closer to Indian feelings.

◆ What is Ashram
Ashram (ashram), when translated, refers to "a saint's ancestor (in Hinduism), monk's shrine". It is a place to practice with accommodation facilities to do various training, including yoga. In Ashram, you can enjoy meals, accommodation, yoga and meditation in the facility and you can learn how to live yoga from the life style.

The appearance of the ashram I stayed this time is like this. Among them are accommodations, cafeterias, large rooms like meditation and yoga halls.


Ashram is prohibited from shoes.


The corridor is always cool and cool. It looks beautiful, but as I have a lot of sand and dust, I was wearing shoes.


The private room of the accommodation is like this. I was able to use the twin room alone.


Shower and toilet are also in the private room.


Meals are served in three vegetarian menus, most of which are seasoned with curry taste. Even if rice does not fit your mouth, there are restaurants in the vicinity, so you can go out to dinner.


Of course, you can also stay in an ordinary hostel and go to the ashram yoga classroom. However, by participating in the ashram, you can feel and learn comprehensive yoga way of thinking and way of life, such as early hours get up early, vegetarianism, spiritual unity, body training.


◆ Full course schedule
This time, one day (meditation) × 2 times, planar yama · yoga (breathing method), Hatha yoga (attitude) × 2 times, mantra · yoga (true word · prayer), pranayama · yoga + Hata yoga I spent three days in a full course plan with activities seven times. Among them, Planna Yama / Yoga, Mantra / Yoga, Hatha / Yoga had much time to learn.


Meal times in the morning, afternoon and evening are roughly decided. You can eat free at this time within this time.


Meditation is a big hall, guests, teachers, ashram staff etc all will do together. When I was staying, it was about 10 at most, and about 5 when I was less. After praying etc, there were people doing meditation for dozens of minutes by organizing a zen meditation to long and more than an hour. The hall was banned for photography, so there are no pictures, but a lot of such stone statues were decorated.


I had almost one-to-one classes of yoga this time, but sometimes I did meals and meditation with other guests and ashram staff. There is a common room (photo), and we may talk with other guests during free time. Rules are different for each ashram, depending on the facility, there is also an ashram that takes a meal after praying at every fixed time at a fixed time. Individual training, group harmony by group actions, and the parts that are treasured by ashram are various impressions.


◆ What is Pranayama Yoga?
It is yoga that mainly focuses on breathing exercises. In yoga breathing is an important point. Basically nose breathing, inhale from the nose and exhale through the nose.


"Kaparbati" saying, I practiced the breathing method which breathes out vigorously from my nose two or three times a second many times. In this way, there is a pattern that breathes out from the nose, including arm movement and body trunk movement. This breathing method uses a lot of abdominal muscles, so it is at most three days, but the abdominal muscles become muscle pain.


Besides, the teacher can breathe in and stop the stomach in this state. "Now, you should try it," I was told, but I could never do it.


Pranayama Yoga also included cleaning the nose with physiological saline or improving the passage of air by putting this tube through the nose and out from the mouth. When the teacher showed us a model, "Hot chanOr? While putting Tsukkomi alone by one person, I thought of trying it once, but I was concerned about the sanitary aspect of the tube, so I did not challenge after all.


What is mantra · yoga
Article of Wikipedia's "Mantra"According to, "Mantra is Sanskrit, which inherently means" character "" words ". In Mahayana Buddhism, especially in Esoteric Buddhism, it refers to a short word symbolically expressing hymns and prayers for Buddha ".


For example, if you translate this page literally, "Give us life, O God, remove sorrow and pain, please happy, overflowing, create the universe, pure and reverent God, guide us and inspire us, Please lead us to the correct thinking. " It seems to cherish singing such songs on your own during meditation.


There are many words of such prayer, and my teacher showed me the book of mantra. There seems to be various meanings such as "healing mantra" "mantra of harmony" "mantra of love and compassion" "mantra of meal". In this ashram, we taught this brief prayer word one by one a day, and practiced singing with each music. I imitate the teacher and sing it over and over again and again. It was 3 days, but when I realized I was surprised by myself singing this song with humming songs.

◆ What is Hatha Yoga
Wikipedia's "Hata Yoga" article"" Hata "is a word of" Sanskrit "meaning" force "," strength "" "Hata Yoga, who won popular popularity in the West in the late 20th century as a health purpose exercise, In many cases, it is simply called "Yoga." As Goopi Krishna of India writes a book explaining its premises as having gotten out by this Hatha Yoga ", as it says, today's common yoga is It seems to come from Hatha Yoga.


In fact, Hatha Yoga classes have undertaken various exercises ranging from slow motion of stretching system to active movement such as handstand, bridge and so on.


I practice various poses, which are said to be famous "poses of ○ ○", but in the beginning 3 days it is also a matter of being able to take a pose.


During exercise, the teacher repeatedly said to me, "I exhale," but he often ended up breathing and stopped breathing.


◆ Try experiencing for 3 days
It was slightly before the start and after 3 days, but also the body became soft.





However, I was suffering from more than expected muscle pain, and I felt a bit spicy to do exercise on the third day.


However, it is not only a mere yoga pose or exercise, it is a healthy diet of vegetarian, the feeling that my body becomes soft by doing exercise, the pleasure of being able to do a pose etc. are among me It felt very strong.


And, including the time of meditation, I felt my body slowly in my life, took a lot of time to empty my head ... .... I could relax my life by resting my feelings and feeling my self as it is. On the last day, my teacher burned incense and flame and prayed "fire puja".


It was extraordinary flame in the room, so I was afraid by myself (laugh).


Although it is only three days, I thought that it would be a good opportunity to rethink my body, mind and life style for those who are tired of mind and body due to their daily busyness.

However, there are differences in speaking by ashram or teacher. This time, I summarized the story of the teacher I learned.

"Kriya Yoga Ashram"
Street address:Tapovan, Himalayan Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India-249192
phone:(0135) 2435222
E-mail:[email protected]
3 days, full course (3 meals, accommodation, yoga program included) 5000 rupees (about 7500 yen)

Sentences · coverage: Akasaka Nobunaga

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