I am in a naturopathy clinic for 2 weeks. This is a retreat, a place where one focuses
on reconnecting with one’s body and the healing
of it, the experience has been rejuvenating….I want to share this with
people, my family and friends, and even just acquaintances who may find my
experience something they can connect with! I wonder whether I should start another blog as this
blog is meant for my journey into the world of water colour! But suddenly I realise a simple truth, all my art is linked with my life. It’s my very
personal impressions and perspective of things and happenings around
which colour what I paint and how I paint it! So this is indeed the right place
for me to share my thoughts.
A creeper with bright pink flowers, "rani pink" as Thai called them, grows on a wall across from where I sit and eat my diet of fruit!
For those of you reading who don’t know what Naturopathy is,
you can check out the link here www.jindalnaturecure.org/ ! I am here with Nishka and we are already one
week into our stay and have another few
days left. Its good mother – daughter bonding time, which is a huge bonus! Its been all that one expected….and I’m
confident I will go back feeling well and rejuvenated! It’s such a unique experience to be in a space
where everyone is into the business of healing and learning to value and
respect one’s body, understand the critical link between one’s mind and body, and
how the well being of one effects the
other, and cannot work in isolation! There is such a positive energy around, I
feel uplifted. There are people from all
walks of life here, people whom we would possibly never meet in our regular
lives…..and yet we strike up conversations and talk about all sorts of things,
from cooking to how one prays, if one does! I met a lady who can recite the entire Ramayana in Sanskrit, and she was so proud of it. She is twisted with pain and walks with some difficulty, but is brave enough to attend the 6 am yoga sessions!
We all seem to instinctively reach
out to another person in any kind of discomfort. The amazing thing is our life here is such
that one has the time to notice it, and actually do something. So when Nishka
caught a chill and was unwell for a couple of days, so many random people, would stop me to ask whether she was well or
not, someone who had been on the next mat during our early morning yoga, or
sat next to me while waiting for one of the treatments!Conversations just happen!
We have spent so many great holidays here, while our children were young....now we are here with them as grown women and with their families around them, and one feels blessed for all one has! Its a nostalgic time as Viveck retires next year and I am not sure whether we will come here again, altogether as a family.
