Comments on: A vacation from which we might never return http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/05/a-vacation-from-which-we-might-never-return/ Creative type with a fetish for mildly impossible worlds Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:50:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: benjamin http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/05/a-vacation-from-which-we-might-never-return/comment-page-1/#comment-289 benjamin Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:54:14 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=248#comment-289 Hi Jane, Thanks for commenting. It was fun to return to these thoughts and comforting to know that there are other people out there with similar reflections. The atrocious thing is that I've completely lapsed on the physical yoga. You're right on both counts, you cannot talk openly about what you think, and you are encouraged to regard your scepticism as a sign that you are not successfully making the tantalising spiritual journey they proffer, a handy mechanism to ensure practitioners self-regulate thoughts and behaviour. And yes, the people look so drained of life that its hard to take them at all seriously. Yeah, know your limits. Many thanks. Hi Jane,

Thanks for commenting. It was fun to return to these thoughts and comforting to know that there are other people out there with similar reflections.

The atrocious thing is that I’ve completely lapsed on the physical yoga.

You’re right on both counts, you cannot talk openly about what you think, and you are encouraged to regard your scepticism as a sign that you are not successfully making the tantalising spiritual journey they proffer, a handy mechanism to ensure practitioners self-regulate thoughts and behaviour.

And yes, the people look so drained of life that its hard to take them at all seriously.

Yeah, know your limits.

Many thanks.

]]> By: Jane http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/05/a-vacation-from-which-we-might-never-return/comment-page-1/#comment-287 Jane Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:59:26 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=248#comment-287 yes teachers who have an interirity that I have not found yet in other yoga classes. So.... I guess I just have to know the limits of where i want to step. Thanks for your travel log. Much appreciated! yes teachers who have an interirity that I have not found yet in other yoga classes. So…. I guess I just have to know the limits of where i want to step.
Thanks for your travel log. Much appreciated!

]]> By: Jane http://www.benjaminteicher.com/2009/05/a-vacation-from-which-we-might-never-return/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Jane Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:57:13 +0000 http://www.benjaminteicher.com/?p=248#comment-286 Man, It feels GOOD to read your travl log ! You describe so well the whole atmosphere there and I like your sensitivity and the way you also refuse to categorize things , such as declaring Sivananda ashram to be a cult. On my side, i can say that i never went to their ashrams other than to take the physical yoga, which I also find very very good. I never will join their trainings and never go to th meditation and all. I live in a city where there is an ashram so I use the facility that way. It is a "funny" thing there: it is impossible to talk openly about what one thinks. Most people are silent before classes and if not, you just KNOW that you can't discuss things openly. That in itself IS disturbing. But I had a chance to trty out other classes thru the city, and really, it does not even compare. I laughed at your description of that British apprentice swami. I myself wonder often: with all this physical yoga, how come most of them ashram people, particularly the women, look so bad really, stooped shoulders, no breast, no feminity left. Well they do other stuff, like eating poorly and subjecting themselves to this ego destroy, and really it is frightening. At the same token, there are some very ggod teachers there, who have a Man, It feels GOOD to read your travl log ! You describe so well the whole atmosphere there and I like your sensitivity and the way you also refuse to categorize things , such as declaring Sivananda ashram to be a cult.
On my side, i can say that i never went to their ashrams other than to take the physical yoga, which I also find very very good. I never will join their trainings and never go to th meditation and all. I live in a city where there is an ashram so I use the facility that way. It is a “funny” thing there: it is impossible to talk openly about what one thinks. Most people are silent before classes and if not, you just KNOW that you can’t discuss things openly. That in itself IS disturbing. But I had a chance to trty out other classes thru the city, and really, it does not even compare. I laughed at your description of that British apprentice swami. I myself wonder often: with all this physical yoga, how come most of them ashram people, particularly the women, look so bad really, stooped shoulders, no breast, no feminity left. Well they do other stuff, like eating poorly and subjecting themselves to this ego destroy, and really it is frightening. At the same token, there are some very ggod teachers there, who have a

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