Since three years I’m learning meditation. I do Kriya yoga and learn this from my teacher Prakash Vyas. [LINK]
Three subseding years I have been able to see Guruji at least once a year in India. But it did get tiresome to go to Varanasi each year. Last year in August and September it was very very hot as we waited for the monsoon rains that did not come. Still it was good to be there, to practice and study yoga with old friends. Being with Guruji is every time such a learnfull experience. This year I will not travel to India and we already happily spend our holidays in Turkey and Syria as we knew that we would be seeing Guruji in Italy. Guruji and his wife are now in Assisi. So we’re off to Italy for a little yoga retreat until the tenth of October.
And you know actually I feel that I’m starting to miss India. Varanasi is a special city to me, a spritual sanctuary where I can run to. in my memory I can visualize it’s sights, sounds and smells (good or bad) very easily and that’s what I often do before I start my daily practice. Next year we plan to go again but now I find myself only dreaming of Varanasi walking along the Ghats and my thoughts wandering away along the Deep River…