Friday, October 15, 2010

Nithya Surya Namaskar


Well....
It has been another long very enjoyable day in the city of Delaware. I have two really great thing to write about, but I am going to save the second one for tomorrow so I will have something to write about at 5:00 am when I probebly will be writing. So about today's subject. Nithya Surya Namaskar.
Ok first comes a story. Pretty much most of my life i had detested yoga. It was something my mom did. Something she went away for weekends for, leaving my sister and I alone with my Dad. It was painful and required aspects of living I did not want to put fourth. When I decided to take the Three Month Life Bliss Engineering program or rather LBE I somehow failed to realize that would do for then 500 hours of yoga in the course of those three months. I still and will probebly always remember my very first Yoga class. It was in the Ananda Sabha I don't truthfully remember the most of it I just remember doing Nithya Surya Namaskar and thinking "wow this is so fun! why haven't I done this before?"
Ok So what is this "Nithya Surya Namaskar" Basically the exact translation is Eternal Salutation to the Sun. A series of postures woven together to creat a beautiful Vinyasa. It is a Vinyasa that has been around for thousand of years. After high school started I diden't really do much yoga. By that i mean I wasen't doing a daily practise. Today though I did. I did two postures and then three rounds, or six sets of Surya Namaskar.
This is the interesting part. Now even though I haden't done the Vinyasa is nearly three months my body, my musels remembered every movement. from my torso to my toes my body did all the movments. I watched my self. I watched my body, my house, my temple, move it's musels from one postion to another. I watched as my body of it's own accord pushed itself up and laid down...... It is almost to much to write here in just words. It was so amazing, it really showed the concept of musle memory. I almost coulden't believe it, but there it is.
Ok that is my day's excpirence. Check back in tomorrow for updates on your dear friend's life, and to read about my other really cool thought. Today's picture I took in South India. It is of the sunrise from a train. You always do Surya Namaskar in the morning to salut the riding sun.

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