Yoga Schedule

Below is a schedule of our day at the yoga center.

5:00 a.m. - 5:15 a.m. Wake up and take a shower (there is only cold water available)
5:15 a.m. - 6:45 a.m. Meditation and Pranayama Breathing
6:45 a.m. - 7:15 a.m. Drink Hot Ginger Water and Perform Yogi Cleansing Practices
7:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Yoga Class # 1
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Brunch/Lunch and personal study
11:00 a.m - 12:15 p.m. Philosophy Class with Swami G
12:15 p.m.- 2:00 p.m. Personal Study/Free Time
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Fruit and Salty Lassy Snack
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Yoga Theory Class
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Yoga Class #2
6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Ayurvedia or History of Yoga and India Classes
9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Bed/Lights Out

Next Day:

Repeat

We do have one day "off" each week however, that day is set aside for trips to temples and ashrams, a backwater tour, etc. We've had one day off so far and it began with a special 3 hour meditation folled by a backwater tour to a very cool island temple and then a visit to Bhooma's ashram.

The group yogic cleasing involves use of a neti pot, running a rubber catheter tube up one's nose and pulling it out through the mouth, swallowing cloth and then pulling it back out, and soon to come... a special salt water cleanse in which we drink excessive amounts of salt water, do special yoga poses, repeat and repeat until we throw up and are compelled to spend much of the day on the toilet (this will be done on one of our days "off"). The cleansing practices are all optional. Still, I never thought that I would do things like this in a group setting. Strangely, in the context of the course, it all seems doable. No one is really embarrassed.