It was last month that I finished reading a book on Yoga - "Iyengar - the Yoga master" and needless to say, I was thrilled by what people had to say about Yoga and the Master himself. One has to be terribly great to have his name added to the Oxford dictionary and to be named as one of Top 100 people by the Times magazine.
So, a week later, I decided to see if Iyengar Yoga can be my cup of tea as well and decided to search for some yogic practitioners in Germany. The results were simply too much for me to digest! I could find more than 50 certified teachers of BKS Iyengar method in Berlin alone (which is atleast 5 times more than the # of similar schools in entire state of Karnataka in India!). I could also find that the teachers are spread almost to the length and breadth of Germany - from Aachen in the West, Rostock in the North, to Freiburg in the South. Indian Yoga is unequivocally popular in the heart of EU and this made my raise my head and blow my trumpet in Office that whole week:-
While India is embracing the West and Rest , are the Rest and West reciprocating? I think days are not far when people from the West travel to India to hold seminars and workshops on Yoga! (or is this reality already?).
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Your blog name has changed... I guess you have embraced German now :-)
ReplyDeleteMy understanding of Yoga is not just practicing physical posture, its life style. Yoga is way of life (if it was controlling wife... whole world would be following Yoga now... Katte PJ)
Yoga is a way of life. You have change everything, from what you eat to how you think. Absolutely everything. Many people mistake Yoga is form of physical exercise, which not.
Wish you had been here, next to me, with glass wine for the discussion :-)