A Single Day: Bliss or Curse
After finishing my meal, like usual, I started washing the graniteware food-tray that had four small and one big division. While I was scraping the food remnants off the tray with my spoon, I contemplated over the concept of love and how it originated. I…
Despite the Fears: I’m Serious Like a Squirrel
I am in the third week of training. I now spend every day definitely doing at least one thing that I have been too lazy to do or preferred to avoid. Sometimes I just want to lie down on the bed silently and do nothing….
Cuba: Not a Place where Time Stops But Rather One where It Flows
My Cuban adventure started with an email I received in April. The subject was “My dream is Cuba. I usually don’t read emails that sound like a commercial, but it was about Cuba, and it really was my dream to go there, so I read…
A Point of View is a Field of Perception or a Jar of Peanut Butter
“From the point of view of someone who lives in Istanbul, it looks like a very courageous act to quit your job and shake the dust off your feet by claiming, “I want to transform my life!” before going to be trained in an ashram….
Mind Control and a Bucket of Ice
It’s just one day before training begins, and I’m sitting next to my bed conversing with the butterflies in my stomach as two shining eyes with a huge backpack appear. After a few seconds of eye contact, Kalyani starts questioning me, and I reply continuously….
Bhutan: Heaven on Earth
It was the first time in my life that I would take a journey lasting more than about five hours, and with a tour at that. I usually prefer to plan my travel myself and journey with friends. This tour was different, though. It was…
Knowing Our Limitations
When you go on a trip and announce it through social media, people often comment on your post, saying things like “Oh! You really must go see this and do that!” These people are your friends, and it seems like they’re only trying to help…
Yoga Teacher Training in Ashram
I start warming myself up in anticipation. Everyone staying in the ashram needs to follow an intense schedule starting at 5.30 am and ending at 9.30 pm. In my first week of this schedule, I realize my physical and mental limitations, but I do not…
Yoga Ashram India
I have never seen such a tranquil place before. The monkeys and squirrels jump through the trees, and everywhere is a pure green. I have been thinking about why I was so far away from the trees. Instead of becoming a child of the sun…
Before Taking the Road
An era is about to end in my life as a new one begins. I am somewhere in between them until I leave the country. I feel like I am neither touching the ground nor flying in the sky. It’s like I’m hanging in some…
The Indian Way of Hygiene
I. This is both the end of the first period and the start of the second period of my life. At this point, I meet Kalyani, who becomes a significant part of my life. Kalyani provides all the spoilers for the first steps in this…
