Learning how to meditate in a tent...
I mentioned that we just spent some time camping in the Inner Hebrides. And I must say it is not my favorite to stay in a tent but I had good moments. One of them was to realize how calm it can be.
It would have been beautiful to do my set outside watching the Burg and the sea but the midges and rain did not let me. I sat in a separate compartment of the tent, heard my kids playing but really noticed and felt the silence. No distraction, being on a remote Scottish Island, the phone had no signal, the closest building was our friends caravan and the sea just there by our feet.
This nothingness is amazing. I forgot that I used to live like this for 4 years. People ran away because they could not bear this nothingness.
It was weird to sit in a white space, white all around me. But it is so nice to have the full support of this incredible silence to meditate.
Obviously thoughts turn loud and I am all over the place but additionally there is this feeling that there is something bigger out there and I am of it. It feels good.
I do not remember having felt that close anywhere lately, living in a city.
I read so often, Choose a place you won’t be disturbed, feel vulnerable, or get distracted. And I understand why and what. But I don't think I really did understand until I experienced this.
My room is still messy enough and there are a lot of distractions around me but I remember this calm silent space and try to go there whenever I sit down.
And the best part of it is to pretend to have no signal and concentrate on one point.
1st blog post - 1st of August - 1st day of a New Set
That was a funny moment this morning when I had the idea of starting a new blog - a Kundalini Yoga Blog. I was in the middle of my kriya in a separate part of the tent while my kids where asking their dad to draw a superman and Ben 10.
The wind was punching the tent as my youngest son had noticed and I wondered how to accomplish a front bend in this confined space...
I just smiled.
Sometimes I am really puzzled when and how things happen to come into my life.
I have started Kundalini Yoga about six years ago or better a teacher passed my life on a course we visited together in Scotland and she invited me to a morning sadhana. I remember her enthusiasm while I lost my breath doing breath of fire. It was 5:30am and I thought we are mad.
But it seemed really special to me then, maybe too far to reach? Or I just did not know anything about Kundalini Yoga or where to find people involved. But I found a book and started practicing by myself. Time past by, I returned once again back to Scotland to do a course, traveled to an island during this course, met my husband and moved to the island.
After a while another Kundalini Yoga teacher moved to the very same island and we started to practice together! This was very special living so remote. I learnt a lot and am very grateful for this. And I could continue my practice during and after 2 pregnancies. We left the island after 4 years and we live in the big city now ...
So here we are again, visiting this very corner of Scotland and I remember all this. I am in the middle of my Kundalini Yoga teacher training and today I have started a new 40 days kriya and meditation which I was allowed to choose by myself.
While I looked for a suitable set I had a conversation about Kundalini Yoga music and misunderstanding my friend I found a Wahe Guru track I really liked. It said Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, so that is how I found this new meditation I started today as part of my 40 days set but that might be another blog post ......
