Blogs from Nashik, Maharashtra, India, Asia
November 11th 2011
Nasik 1st to 4th November We were really quite sad to leave Goa and the few friends we had made there. Brendan (from London) was a really nice chap and was the font of all knowledge about the place. He had been there a couple of times already and was being joined by his son later in the week. He had already booked to go back again in spring. Anthy's turned out to be a real gem of a place and the staff were so nice. We spent loads of time chatting the waiters, Raj and Mishal who were Nepalese and even the chef came out after work for a chat on our last evening.( We won't miss old Mr Benidorm and his many coloured thongs though...... not a great look that Borat!!!!) Got to the ... read more
August 12th 2010
Yep it’s 4 a.m. ….wide awake….. don’t have to be up for a few more hours….. pull out the iPod and chill for a few hours. This is how my morning starts every single day. I could go workout but I’m tired I only slept for almost 5 hours today and with only eating 2 meals a day the last 2 days I’m covered. Head down for a quick breakfast as the Management team is meeting at our hotel so we can all carpool together. Today no one but me and Rohit are downstairs it’s pretty early and it’s nice the staff knows us by name now and they bring me my usual fresh squeezed orange juice. No Tropicana for this guy I’m on fresh squeezed now. We round up the troops and head out for ... read more
February 17th 2010
We started our journey early morning at 3 am towards Saputara which is around 260 kms from mumbai. We reached Nashik by 6:30 am through early morning open road. We diverted to Saputara road which goes via Vani and reached by 9:00 am. Saputara is a nice hill station place for weekend family trip. The enterence of the hill station has boating and ropeway call you or welcoming you. We did only Boating and Ropeway and visited the museum. Museum have things showing local tradition. There should be a guide or Light and sound show. Other things which you can do in addition to this is the Jain Temple, Horse/Toybike riding or buying some tribal arts like letter box, night lamp etc. In respect to tribal arts i found this place very similar to Jawhar which ... read more
October 6th 2009
Being a wine lover, I dint need any encouragement to travel to Sula. So, when plans were being made to spend the weekend at Nasik to visit the Sula Vineyard, my nomination as a part of the tour was confirmed. About twenty of us left from Mumbai in a small white mini bus cramped with our bags and photography equipment as early as 6:30 am from the southern part of Mumbai to undertake a long three and a half hour rickety bus journey to reach Nasik which is about 170 kms from Mumbai. A non-eventful drive through the ghats and toll booths got us to the wine capital of India. Our only stop till Nasik was the breakfast break when hunger pangs became louder than the perpetually blaring horn. However once we reached the outskirts of ... read more
October 2nd 2009
Monday the 28th - Headstand Day Finally I sat down to write a little bit. The weekend’s been quite busy… Lectures, new yoda class (we’re advanced now!!!) There’s always so much I wanna tell you, but then I don’t have my laptop and forget about it… will start taking notes! Yeah, Friday was pretty intense. Cities in India are just incredibly busy and stressful, especially when you spent the past week in an Ashram in the middle of nowhere. Sorry, if I didn’t get back to everyone personally! I didn’t really do that much during the day, it just all took forever. The Internet was incredibly slow and kept crashing… So I wasn’t able to book any further flights, but I enden up finding an nicer, quieter and FASTER Inet café later on, so that’s where ... read more
September 25th 2009
Hari om!! i'm feeling extremely jittery rite now. ive been eating super healthy ayurvedic food since ive been here in the ashram. but on our days off when we are let loose into the city, i cannot resist the ridiculously rich chocolate cake, icecream and coffee. after such a healthy diet, i feel like i'm cheating, like a kid sneaking candy bars at fat camp. but hey, it's only once a week. tho my body is no longer used to this caffeine and sugar high.. where to begin? the program is flying by, as i knew it would. there's a great group of people here, 35 students from 17 different countries. very diverse, and everyone has their own background and story of how they came to arrive at this little town in India. one of my ... read more
March 5th 2009
went trekking in the Harishchandra range in Maharashtra. the summit is 1424m. we started on sat. feb 21. I was to meet my friends Mallik and Sanjay in Kalyan at 6pm. They were taking the train from Mumbai to Kalyan. As for me, I started at 3:30pm from Savarsai village, took a rickshaw to Pen, then from Pen, I took a bus to Panvel, then from Panvel, I took another bus to Kalyan. I didn't know there was an express from Panvel to Kalyan and took the slow bus which arrived there at 6:55pm so I was really late. When I got there, they said the bus we needed to take is at 7pm so we didn't miss it but when we waited, we saw the bus leave as it picked people up in another stand, ... read more
January 4th 2009
This blog is a bit late but it took a little while to get over India or rather get used to being back in the west again. India is pretty fantastic.. and at the same time pretty eye opening. The place definitely has a mysticism about it, but anywhere with 5-10,000 years of history is bound to be pretty fascinating. We arrived in Mumbai to the eye opening part. We left the airport to a cacophony of shouts of taxi and a crush of people. The 10 minute taxi ride to our hotel took us all of 200 meters and had me gripping the seat several times and convinced our driver was mad.. But later I discovered that no it is just that all Indian drivers were mad.. After a luxurious night at Le Meridian in ... read more
November 17th 2008
Hey All, A quick blog to let you know how we are getting on in the Ashram. Well we have completed the first 6 days and passed the first exam on Asana's and survived.. The food is very tasty although somewhat similar.. very nice rice wheat, cracked wheat and balti dishes which are so delicately flavoured and really really tasty.. but breakfast lunch and dinner is hard work as I'm just craving a change in consistency.. but really no complaints over the food.. I'll post some pictures when we get back to London after Dec 16th. We have met a great bunch of people from all over the world there are 9 guys and 18 girls. Characters include a smoke rappelling (abseiling out of helicopter to put out bush fires), rock climbing, all action american lady, ... read more
Yoga Cleasing Techniques and Iyengar
Published: September 22nd 2008Asia » India » Maharashtra » Nashik
September 22nd 2008
The Past few weeks have been very interesting! I came to study Yoga to improve my own practice, become a better teacher and attempt to suppress my ego. The cleansing techniques are supposed to help with ego, I have been told. So with several attempts and lots of vomit I have succeeded in two of the practices. One of the practices called Dundar Neti involves inserting a catheter into the nose and pulling it out the mouth. The problem with this is that it is revolting!! You have to coat the tube with ghee to lubricate it, I had flash backs of last years buttered popcorn in the nose! As you start to insert the tube a sneeze reflex is triggered, so there were 13 of us on Vaman Road sneezing as though we had all ... read more
