daily routine (UPDATED with pictures)

Nisarga was starving for a routine, said that his body does really well with one. Since we live together, I have adapted myself around him although my body is not asking for a routine at all. So what’s the routine?

Well… since you asked. We sleep with the curtains open and there are these amazing birds that start singing such sweet and long

and complex lullabies at 530, when dawn dawns... this is our alarm clock of sorts. Around 630 Nisarga gets up and warms up a glass of water, drinking it and massaging his stomach… his wake up message to his body. Then he goes into the bathroom, lights a candle, and gives himself a full body sesame oil rub down. His dry skin I’m sure is so happy during this time.

Then he does his nasal cleansings, which are part of yogic kriyas (internal cleansings). At first he was resistant to the cleansing with thread but after vipassana he accepted the challenge and now he’s hooked. The first stage of cleansing involves pouring warm salted water into one nostril and letting the water come out of the other. Then reversing nostrils. The second stage involves putting a rubber thread into one nostril and pulling it out of the mouth, in a way “flossing” everything in between. Then repeating the process through the other nostril. Both stages are intended to flush out mucous from the nasal and throat passages. This is helpful especially for our meditations. During this time I remain in bed and give myself reiki.

At about 715 he goes outside and down the hill, and does Osho’s active meditation “Dynamic” for an hour. This consists of 10 minutes of fast and caotic breathing, 10 minutes of emotional catharsis, 10 minutes of jumping up and down with arms raised yelling “who” every time you land and exhale, 15 minutes of standing still with arms raised in silence and self observation, and 15 minutes of celebration of everything that has come out and of the new day (there is music accompanying every stage to mark the time and help with the appropriate energy). During this time I do my nasal cleansings and have a warm herbal drink afterwards and wheatgrass. Now comes my favourite part.

After Dynamic Nisarga comes home, takes off all his clothes, and sits naked on the balcony, has breakfast, including wheatgrass food supplement drink, and gives himself reiki. He (we really) has Pedro and Pillar to thank for this. Because ever since we went to Almeria’s nude beach he is so comfortable in his body. He simply loves to be naked! And with such innocence and naïveté, oblivious to the village life going on around him for the most part… it’s so damn cute! During this time I do some yoga, with clothes on. He takes a shower and then we meditate for one-hour, our daily vipassana practice. By now it’s noonish.

I get ready and we negotiate where to go for lunch. Nisarga says he is at a time in his life right now when he is really enjoying 3 meals per day. I on the other hand do really well with one huge meal per day, lunch, and maybe a small snack in the afternoon if it’s cold or it’s been a physically active day. So we eat and talk and then he goes on to his reiki classes and I go to the internet or shopping for supplies or some thing like that. He has been going for a course on reiki, 2 hours per day, since the 1^st of October. Today is the last day since today we have to leave for Osho Nisarga for another workshop. He has really gotten very into the reiki, and is now officially a masters level practitioner.

The sun sets around 6ish and it gets colder. The rain has been on and off, more off thankfully. The mornings are usually bright and by lunch some clouds come in and in the afternoon it may rain. He makes dinner and we spend the rest of the evening talking, reading, cuddling, maybe watching a movie on the computer. We are usually asleep by 10pm. And that has been our life more or less over the past two weeks. We are grateful to have had this time to just chill out, learn a bit, not travel for 2 weeks, and spend quality time with each other.

Now we return to Osho-Nisarga for a 3 week intensive Gurdjieff workshop. I stress the word intensive in every way! We get one day off per week, during which we may go to the internet café in the village. We finish on the 29^th, get on the bus on the 30^th, and arrive back in Delhi on the 31^st of October. More from us soon…