Rejuvenating My Body , Soul and Macbook

Hi everyone , Its been over a month since I updated my blog .. thats right no FB, blogspot or Google news for me since a month or so. there are a few reasons for my absence from the cyber world -

I was terribly struck down from a reoccurring health issue. I desperately needed to rejuvenate my life .. change the way I live , had to do a complete overhaul of my lifestyle ... And I decided to bring this change starting with my physical health ...As I am restricted from doing any of the activities that I used to do a year and a half ago like swimming ,trekking or jogging I didn’t know what to take up to get in shape or feed my soul so to say ... I was in total hibernation..

Things changed a bit last week when my doctor approved me of doing a bit of Yoga , and in no time I found this place nearby my house where Yoga classes are being held ..with high hopes I went to have a look at the place and meet the Yogi himself .. I always have this presumption about any given stuff or person even before I get to meet them ..what I mean is when I said I was excited to meet the yogi I had imagined him to be lean , strong with a glowing face and hopefully a beard.

Well when I reached the place.. there were a bunch of kids playing around in the front yard of the school and the classes were held at the basement of this school building. I climbed down the stairs and took my first look at the basement .. It was huge and well ventilated and I could see around twenty or so people mostly women spread evenly across the hall and standing in a particular posture , they are in middle of a yogic posture I thought to my self, soon I saw a women letting herself lose from that yogic position and she started walking briskly across the hall towards me , As she approached nearer I could tell she was in her 40’s and petite.

I asked for the yogi and she said she was the yoga teacher .. I was stunned and a bit disappointed for a moment as the base of my whole assumption about the imaginary Yogi was blown away . I continued asking about the details of the course while my mind was thinking that it was not a good idea to learn yoga from a female teacher for two reasons , First I believe women are not as determined as men while it comes to physical coaching , secondly the room was full of females and very few males.. a ratio of 80:20 (women : men) so I assumed she would be teaching only basic or very light yoga to make it comfortable for the females.

I had no other option but to give this class a try. So I enrolled myself and committed to come the next morning for my first class. the class would start at 6 in the morning ,I had to rise up as early as 5.30 and get ready for the class .. I couldn’t believe what I had committed to, I am not used to waking up early and I couldn’t imagine the last time I woke up at 5 in the morning .. not even during the semester exams had I tried to wake up that early.

My first day and I was there in the basement on time with my mind all set to start a new lifestyle... the classes went on for over an hour and the asanas (postures) were very easy and I didn’t have to break a sweat to do it. later I learnt from a fellow student that as it was Monday the asanas were easy just like a warmup round to set our body for the whole week of yoga and it was true after day 3 I couldn’t do a single asana correctly as I couldn’t command my body to bend like the yogi did ... she could bend her body like rubber and she did yogic postures that even two of the male gym instructors (new to yoga like me) were not able to do it , It truly needs enormous strength with flexibility and stamina to sustain in those positions for over a minute. Later I learnt from my Guru that yoga was all about building the inner core strength .. the soul the body and the mind all will be toughened and relaxed for ultimate health....

Its been my third week into yoga and I am totally satisfied with the female Guru ( hell !! ,she is more flexible and stronger than any guy in that basement )..I can feel the change in me and I m on a path to a healthy lifestyle for sure...

I have spoken about rejuvenating my soul and body and you should be thinking what the hell a Macbook has to do with rejuvenation .... :) well it got a bit rejuvenated too when I installed Mac OS X 10.6 ( snow leopard ) .I can surely feel the speed bump system wide as almost all application are true-64 bit apps including the kernel except for few apps like itunes which are still 32 bit native. Its been running smooth and flawless so far except that most of the 3rd party apps still don’t have a 64-bit version of their apps .. hope this will change in coming weeks...

good day