Charmed by the gentleness of yoga at SOUKYA International Holistic Health Centre in India
Catherine Fairweather writes :
Yoga as practised here with the inimitable Dr Raghuveer is part spiritual therapy and part pranayama; breathwork that is essential to the healing process and wellbeing. His sessions talk us through the postures that improve lung capacity, muscle tone and oxygenate the blood. It's a fascinating and educative deconstruction process that some of my fellow Westernised, urban patients, habituated to hard-core, physical challenges and sweating it out, find too slow. The pace is certainly gentle, set by the metronome of the OM mantra. But in the stunning open yoga salla with its black oxide floor to absorb negative energy, the softening effects on limbs and personality is an effect I feel weeks, and maybe months, later.
