Friday, July 20, 2012

A Beautiful Trek Experience in Annapurna with Yoga



This was the most beautiful and exciting experience of the trek I had so far during my one and half decade long trekking life. Nepal is the most beautiful country for trek with some of the best trek trail on the earth in and around Himalayas. The trek was now combined with Yoga program this time and being taught Yoga by professional Yoga teacher. Before I describe our experience how it was beautiful and excited, I would like to tell you something about Yoga first. 

The Sanskrit word Yoga has the literal meaning of "yoke", from a root yuj meaning to join, to unite, or to attach. Yoga is said to be originated in India and taken as a physical, spiritual and mental discipline. As a term for a system of abstract meditation or mental abstraction Yoga was introduced by Patanjali in the 2nd century BC. The major goal of yoga is to attain the state of perfect spiritual insight and peacefulness in self.  In Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism the word Yoga is associated with meditative practices. 

Yoga can be used as a treatment of many illness and diseases which basically follows and requires a regular exercises. Some basic illness and diseases that Yoga can treat are ;

Reducing anxiety and depression
Eliminating fatigue
Rehabilitating injuries 
Controlling Diabetes 
Overcoming mental disorders
Stabilizing nervous disorders
Ohers such as Headache, Back ache, Menstrual disorders , Sexual dysfunctions, Piles and many more. 

But Yoga is not the magic and can be practiced for health and healing alone. ,

Our excited trek had 6 members altogether comprising of professional yoga teacher, guide, porter and trekkers. We started our journey from Kathmandu by taking the Tourist Bus of Swiss Travels to Pokhara. The Bus was.... To Read more please click the link: 


By Dipak Bastakoti