One of my jobs is tutoring a lovely, Indian girl, now teenager, called Anisha. Her Mum, Sadhna cooks delicious, vegetarian, Indian food and I sometimes cheekily hang around for dinner after my teaching sessions. As a big fan of India, especially their cuisine and of cricket, we have a lot to talk about. One evening, a few weeks ago, we were talking about the resorts in Kerala where you can get all kinds of treatments for ailments and conditions while being in a calming and healthy atmosphere. I was all ears. This kind of place sounded divine.
Literally 2 days later, I was walking past Palm Guitars, a fabulous, chaotic musical instrument shop 2 doors from my apartment. Soren, the owner was sitting outside, stringing some weird instrument with his usual cup of coffee in hand and cigarette not far away. He said he was busy sorting out stuff as he would be away for a month, in India, in Kerala, at a place called Ayurvedic Yoga Villa. A bit of a coincidence or what! I'm sure Soren won't mind me telling everyone that he wanted to go to sort out his high blood pressure, his aching back, lose some weight and have a bit of a detox, along with giving up the wicked cigarettes. Soren doesn't have much faith in the Dutch Health system either and thinks there must be an alternative to popping pills for the rest of his life. It all sounded so familiar so I immediatley took the details of this place and excitedly started my research.
Click to go to Ayurvedic Yoga Villa's website
I'm not going to bore anyone senseless with the ins and outs of what Ayurdvedic treatment actually alludes to. There's a search engine called Google for that. In short, Ayurvedic is all about balancing body and mind by adopting the right diet, yoga, meditation, herbal medication and massage along with cleansing, rejuvination and detoxification of both body and mind. Anyone who knows me well will be thinking this is the kind of mumbo jumbo that I would normally dismiss in a flash and get back to my pint of Guinness. However, something has changed in my tiny mind, I'm not sure how or when, it's probably a combination of shear frustration of the medical world and having a lot of time on my hands to let the mind wander to new places.
I got in touch with Ayurdvedic Yoga Villa and my first impression of their service was very good, I chatted to them on Skype and received emails from one of their 3 resident doctors. They thought they could help my pain problems and with my new laissez-faire attitude, (frankly, if their treatment doesn't work then at least I have tried and no doubt will enjoy the few weeks in the sunshine in the process) I signed up for 28 days.
This will be 28 days of, wait for this folks......
No booze. Guinness can cut down their production for a few weeks.
No meat, fish, eggs or junk food. This will be easy for me in India, where I am always vegetarian anyway.
No Diet Coke.....aahhhhhhhh! This could be tough.
No TV. I don't like one day cricket so couldn't care less that I'll miss the Wendy Cricket World Cup.
Very limited internet use. Max 30 mins per person per day.
Getting up at 6 o'clock every morning for yoga. 06.00, what does the 0 stand for? Oh my God it's early!
Other things banned that don't apply to me like as I don't indulge anyway like no smoking and no coffee.
The worst thing is there'll be no Barry, my wonderful boyfriend.
If everything else fails, at least I'll get a thorough detox and a suntan.
It's now 11 days before I go and I am feeling anxious, excited, full of hope and errrrr....cold.
Literally 2 days later, I was walking past Palm Guitars, a fabulous, chaotic musical instrument shop 2 doors from my apartment. Soren, the owner was sitting outside, stringing some weird instrument with his usual cup of coffee in hand and cigarette not far away. He said he was busy sorting out stuff as he would be away for a month, in India, in Kerala, at a place called Ayurvedic Yoga Villa. A bit of a coincidence or what! I'm sure Soren won't mind me telling everyone that he wanted to go to sort out his high blood pressure, his aching back, lose some weight and have a bit of a detox, along with giving up the wicked cigarettes. Soren doesn't have much faith in the Dutch Health system either and thinks there must be an alternative to popping pills for the rest of his life. It all sounded so familiar so I immediatley took the details of this place and excitedly started my research.
Click to go to Ayurvedic Yoga Villa's website
I'm not going to bore anyone senseless with the ins and outs of what Ayurdvedic treatment actually alludes to. There's a search engine called Google for that. In short, Ayurvedic is all about balancing body and mind by adopting the right diet, yoga, meditation, herbal medication and massage along with cleansing, rejuvination and detoxification of both body and mind. Anyone who knows me well will be thinking this is the kind of mumbo jumbo that I would normally dismiss in a flash and get back to my pint of Guinness. However, something has changed in my tiny mind, I'm not sure how or when, it's probably a combination of shear frustration of the medical world and having a lot of time on my hands to let the mind wander to new places.I got in touch with Ayurdvedic Yoga Villa and my first impression of their service was very good, I chatted to them on Skype and received emails from one of their 3 resident doctors. They thought they could help my pain problems and with my new laissez-faire attitude, (frankly, if their treatment doesn't work then at least I have tried and no doubt will enjoy the few weeks in the sunshine in the process) I signed up for 28 days.
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| Dinner. You can take that banana away though, they are evil |
This will be 28 days of, wait for this folks......
No booze. Guinness can cut down their production for a few weeks.
No meat, fish, eggs or junk food. This will be easy for me in India, where I am always vegetarian anyway.
No Diet Coke.....aahhhhhhhh! This could be tough.
No TV. I don't like one day cricket so couldn't care less that I'll miss the Wendy Cricket World Cup.
Very limited internet use. Max 30 mins per person per day.
Getting up at 6 o'clock every morning for yoga. 06.00, what does the 0 stand for? Oh my God it's early!
Other things banned that don't apply to me like as I don't indulge anyway like no smoking and no coffee.
The worst thing is there'll be no Barry, my wonderful boyfriend.
If everything else fails, at least I'll get a thorough detox and a suntan.
It's now 11 days before I go and I am feeling anxious, excited, full of hope and errrrr....cold.
Go for it - I'm sure it'll work to some extent and as you say at least you'll be relaxed and get a sun tan. I'm looking forward to following your treatment - at least the blogs will be short and to the point if you only get 30mins tinterweb per day - can you save it up if you dont use it?
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