few days after posting the previous post, I got an automated email to remind me that my sessions paid in the Bikram studio is exhausted and should arrive early next visit to renew my lesson plan and make payment. Furious. Although I thought nobody would read it, since it was a machine who had written me, I decided to respond and to note my discomfort. To my surprise a person read and responded to my complaint, and it was not anyone, was the director and owner of the place. He asked me to return to practice and mentioned his desire to speak with me personally. The next day we talked on the phone and we see us two days later to have a chat, before you come to practice.
My friend Poppy angrier than I: "Do not go," he said. "Do not. You're going to sweeten the pill. You will be charming, but that does not mean that they will be with others. " Well, I thought, is that others have not complained. I really looked very nice touch that would have been worried about me, even if after all my drama. I could not imagine that would bother to call and thank the tantrum he had Indeed, asking me to tell you all. In addition, I have seen a lot of people are happy with them: no one questions anything, no one complains. It was just me, I'm fire and swept all-against many good experiences. I decided to go.
I got challenging, defiant, dressed in green (missing more). I was a provocation of jade color. During the session my body felt things had not felt before, along with nausea and dizziness got chills and a kind of allergic reaction with a runny nose and watery eyes (Same as I have when it is very cold). This time they asked him his name to almost everyone, we had a guided meditation, explained some of the bodily reactions that we could feel and speak a little, just a little, about the philosophy of Bikram. When we reached the Japanese sandwich I had to make an effort not to drop a big laugh. In the next round in the same position is changed sandwiches by "caramel sandwiches."
At the end I found Odysseus (whom I had given the class) to try and clarify many of my questions (so many that I had time to ask or third). Poppy was right was lovely, responded willingly to all that asked, her voice conveyed calm, confidence. He talked about all the wonders that are practicing Bikram. The only time you notice a small, tiny, almost imperceptible, change in him was when he asked me "do not judge the guru by the person, but by changes that occur to me to practice Bikram yoga." I explained that the problem is not the creator of this practice Mc'Donalds eat hamburgers or to have one, five or twenty Roll Royce. What offended me was that I felt terribly discriminated by using green (and absurdities are all acts of discrimination). Ulises apologized. I also complained about the impersonal treatment that Bikram is, what mass of little importance they give to the specific. The answer was that Bikram designed it all and for the yoga, and all its benefits reach as many people as possible. He said that nobody has done that yoga extends from the way he has succeeded. Before this I could not stay silent. "That's not true," I argued. "For if know, I work at a university designed to lower social classes. None of my students could pay one of your sessions because it is costing a lot of money they have to live two or three weeks. " What was the reaction?: "Give me a month of your life. If the changes you see in you you believe in and want your students to practice Bikram, get funding and build a hall in the university. " I appreciated the answer, but I sense that Ulysses did not know very well what we mean well. I can not imagine living in Iztapalapa Bikram, or Tláhuac Cuautepec. I imagine much less inside a prison (my university has a program where we teach classes in prisons). Imagine for a moment that someone takes the money to build this space, who will pay all expenses incurred? Or is it the first drug is free? Do you really be Bikram teachers willing to go to these places and give without getting a weight class? I think not. I do not know if what he said was sincere or if Odysseus was a mere courtesy. Anyway I appreciate the kindness that was me, your concern and attempt to convince me.
still do not know if I will continue practicing Bikram. Go every day is impossible for me, I am always filled with things to do, as now, instead of this, would write about toys philosophical and aesthetic wonder, on Penísnula, Peninsula, Hernán Lara Zavala (prize-winning novel SAR 2010), on rotating and little men that women fall for soaring. My schedules are chaotic (well, yes, I'm chaotic), the study is far away. Maybe I'll go once or twice a week for a time without thinking that I shall find a spiritual path. I'll take that as if they were types of pipe, as something that only gives benefits to my body. If you find something else because I am very glad. I've always liked challenges, but this time the challenge myself. We'll see if they catch me.
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