I was browsing around the Internet today and noticed this interesting blog post from Trisha Wilson at Trinity Yoga. Earlier this year she did a 4-week course at my beloved Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai (formerly Madras), India. She made another few posts in March, all of which brought memories of my own visit there in 2005 flooding back. (With a memory like mine, it really has to be something recent for anything to "flood back" at all LOL).
Back then I spent a lot of (probably too much) time keeping a blog of my trip, In Search of Darshan. I find so much truth in what Trisha says in her blog, yet it's interesting how different her blogs actually are. At the time I felt unable to express what was going on during class time, taken in by the wonder of it all I felt the words I chose were inadequate, and anything I wrote wouldn't do the experience and the people justice. My experiences were quite different to Trisha's and yet at the same time very similar - perhaps the name of the course, "Universal Yet Personal", sums it up very well.
It was really about the experience I had as much as, if not more than, the knowledge.
All the teachers at KYM are amazing, especially the son of Sri Krishnamacharya (see picture), TKV Desikachar, and his grandson Kausthub. There are a couple of video interviews with Desikachar and Kausthub on youtube right now, so if you want to know what it's "all about" from their perspective then check them out (links here for part one and part two).
I cannot recommend KYM enough - with the right frame of mind (as Trisha mentions in her blog) you will gain so much but my words again seem doomed to fall short of the mark so I guess you'll all just need to journey there and see what I'm (quietly) raving about.
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