Bye! Bye!

I am really excited to share with you guys that I am off to Coimbatore for the weekend. I am going to the Isha Yoga Ashram an artistic and tranquil place at the foothills of the Velliangiri Mountains. The Velliangiri Mountains are part of the Nilgiri Biosphere. I am attending a two day Hatha Yoga workshop with them. I have heard and read tons & tons about the beautiful Ashram.... Also, adding to my excitement is what I am looking forward to - my very first experience of the Dhyanalinga - the one of its kind in the world. Dhyanalinga is a powerful and unique energy form created from the distilled essence of yogic sciences and is the first of its kind to be completed in over 2,000 years. Dhyanalinga is a meditative space that does not ascribe to any particular faith or belief system nor does it require any ritual, prayer, or worship. It is different from all the other lingas of Hindu tradition. The Dhyanalinga is not used for worship; rather it is created as an external manifestation of the peak form of all inner energies. Just sitting silently for a few minutes within the sphere of Dhyanalinga is enough to make even those unaware of meditation experience a state of deep meditativeness." - Sadhguru It has been Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev's lifetime mission to construct this Linga. This linga and the beautiful temple that houses it is an architectural wonder. Conventional building materials like cement, steel and concrete were ruled out as the life span of structures that employ these materials is a mere 100 years or so. Traditional materials like burnt brick and mud mortar stabilized with lime, sand, alum and herbal additives were used along with huge blocks of granite. Here is an article from Society Interiors about the Ashram and its architecture,

http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/content/Interiormag_web.pdf