I'm an anxious person with a tendency to freak out over almost everything. Would a week at an ashram help me learn to quiet my mind?
It’s 5:30 a.m. when I’m awoken by the sound of a big bell ringing just outside my window. It’s quite dark out, but I lazily pull on yoga pants and a sweater before heading outside for morning meditation. It’s my first day at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Camp in Val-Morin, Quebec, and though I am here entirely by choice, I’m nervous about stepping out of my comfort zone in such unfamiliar surroundings.
You might not think of the Great White North as a yogic destination, but Canada is actually home to the west’s first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, which was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda in Montreal in 1959, before moving to its current location in Val-Morin in 1962. It’s part of an international network of yoga centres—there’s actually a yoga centre in Toronto—that aims to educate people about all aspects of this several-thousand-year-old tradition.
The morning satsang is followed by a two-hour hatha yoga class that kicks off around 8 a.m. It focuses on stretching and toning the whole body and involves frequent relaxation, meditation and a whole lot of breathing exercises. There are two classes a day—one in the morning and the other in the afternoon—which totals four hours of yoga a day. I was sore, to say the least.
The ashram certainly wasn’t a five-star hotel, but that’s the point—to let go of luxuries and distractions and focus your mind inwards. Though I was still using my iPhone, I tried to limit my usage, and I deleted some of my social apps for the week. I was quite surprised by how little I missed everyday items, like my duvet and my laptop. But turning off my brain proved a little more challenging, and I struggled with feelings of inadequacy and incompetence, both in terms of yoga , and in life.
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