![]() If you have your own tent you can get a specific space outside, but cross your fingers that it won't rain. The ashram offers different types of accommodation: twin rooms, single rooms, and dormitories. The ashram is located 32 km from Trivandrum, in a beautiful green area, the Neyyar Dam Sanctuary, which contains a beautiful lake created by the dam. The Sivananda ashram was founded by Swami Vishnudevananda, a disciple of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh. In quarantine because of the pink eye infection! Lol I can't say that I felt very relaxed but we all had a good laugh at every class for sure.Īnd even the philosophy lectures by Swami Mahadevananda, a western swami from Italy, were pretty interesting and entertaining, and perhaps polemic. The hatha yoga teacher, Shamboo, was excellent, I mean he had a lot of positive energy and he was like a stand-up comedian so the classes were really fun. The weekly talent show was very entertaining (read more in "activities" below). It was great to meet people from all around the world with similar interests. ![]() So that was the beginning of my one-month yoga teachers training course at the Sivananda Ashram in Neyyar Dam, Trivandrum.īut, although I was sick for the most part of the training (I got the "pink eye infection as well!") I had an amazing time, though not necessarily in a spiritual sense. Yeah right! I started to feel better right away. The third time the lady doc said, "You stay here tonight. Unfortunately, I had to come back to the same clinic for two more days because I was still feeling very sick. When I ordered the pills the nurse opened a plastic container, like those that my grandma used to use to store sugar, and took out with her bare hand (the right one luckily) the pills I had ordered. Lol.Ī few minutes later I had to lay down on the same bed for two hours to get the IV.īelieve me, this is not the kind of hospital where you want to stay for too long. I immediately jumped out of the bed, and all the lovely nurses ran out of the room laughing uncontrollably. A second later a big cockroach crawl over the same bed, right in front of my eyes! So I lay down on my abdomen for the shot. I looked at the bed and thought, "What the heck, it can't be that bad". ![]() Later the nurse asked me to lay down on the bed to give me the first shot. She prescribed me a shot of antibiotics and paracetamol plus an IV (Intravenous Therapy). Luckily it was just a viral infection, at least that's what I understood from the lady doc that spoke almost no English. He said, "go to the hospital and get a blood test." What a relieve! I was a bit worried, I thought he would just recommend me an Ayurvedic massage or tea but he actually gave me very good advise. I got so sick I had to see the Ayurvedic doctor of the ashram. My stay at the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, for their Sivananda Yoga Teachers Training Course, started with an early visit to the nearest hospital. ![]()
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