You'll have a long bumpy ride all through the mountains and at last you'll get to Netala , the village where we learn yoga. For us who live in a town, work in a city and see only windows through a window feel this place, Shivalaya Yoga Shala, standing deep inside the green high mountains ,like we came to a remote outback of the world. But we soon notice that silence doesn't come without a sound but comes with sounds of unknown birds' beautiful songs and the sound of life, the sounds of village, in the morning. It was my first time to India and also it was my first time to learn yoga too. I know almost nothing about yoga but I had no trouble through my practice (except my body pain). It's so good place to concentrate on something. Mountains, clean and comfortable rooms,beds,& shower, delicious foods, simple life and also Naveen. Naveen is our yoga teacher. He keeps this place in a perfect way every time. 

Ionce asked him how can you make such delicious foods everyday, because this was my first time to eat vegetarian foods every day and my first time to eat curry every time and I still felt delicious every day. Naveen told me that yoga means unite. Unite your body, mind and soul all together. This is concentrating. All of you should be here on cooking. I'm trying to tell this to our cook, he said. Naveen used to be a good cook, and the boy there is also a good cook. Naveen also carefully selects the veges to buy and he also has his own field. He is not serving us tasty foods. He serves us satvic foods. The way he care about everything really told me what yoga is. The place we learn yoga is where the ancient people actually practiced and meditated. This is the place where yoga was grown up. We have the river Ganges nearby You should touch the water, and listen to the stories of mother Ganga. The good thing to learn yoga in India is we can see, feel and understand yoga not only in the classes by also in daily lives. It doesn't care that you don't have a religion. I don't have one, I never believed in God.Of course there's no matter what you believe in. You can find your own silence and peace with the singing birds inside you. I learn that asanas is also meditation. After the TTC, maybe your body hearts a little but I found that I understand more about how to treat myself,how to be myself, and how to learn more. Thank you Naveen, Madhu, Subodh and Jagbeer. Shanti.

Yoshihro (Chii)