Art of Living Bike Ride

Yes!! the members of HBC are getting spiritual these days. It was a day to connect your mind, body and soul, a search within to find peace and energize your body. 28 members rsvped of which 22 turned up early Sunday morning at around 06:30. I know getting up early on Sunday is a BIG ask…but search for the inner self temped many to get out of their beds and rally to a secret location!!

Our beloved Ed made all the arrangements for a perfect ride along with yoga asanas and ofcourse the mandatory chai. Juli told me that Ed woke up quite early to make sure its a perfect day for all of us and also prepared chai for all of us himself!! Hats of to the old man who is still much younger than most of us in the group in terms of energy, enthusiasm and fun loving.

We started off from our usual meeting place (Gachibowli) at around 06:45 and a few of them joined us from Hill Ridge. While Ed was leading the ride, Shay was riding back and forth to ensure all of us were following the right way. I was at the tail, just to make sure that there is help available in case someone needed it.

After a few stops we reached the secret location on the banks of the Himayat Sagar lake. It took some effort from us to persuade the security to allow us in the vicinity of the lake.

Siddharth our Yoga guru was waiting there for us with a big smile on his face. He looked very happy and eager to impart some yoga asanas to us. Just as we were about to start, we had a guest in the form of horse, greeting everyone. He was obviously excited to see us on our bikes.

The weather as just perfect, the clouds above shielded us from the sun. We started our yoya asana with Kapal Bhati and followed it up with head and hip rotation in the sitting posture. The cat posture asana made us feel really good. We then did some standing asanas for our back and joints.

In Yoga breathing is the most important part, ofcourse the posture should also be proper, else it may not be effective. We did a different type of Shava asana (Squeezing our body and freeing it). When we opened our eyes after the 10 minute meditation there was a feeling of happiness and well being within us. After all we hardly get to spend time with ourselves!!

Chai time!! Ed played the perfect host and gave everyone chai and some cookies. After mingling around we rode back to our respective homes.

Thanks to Ed for arranging this ride and yoga session. Thanks to our yoga guru Siddharth for his time and imparting this valuable knowledge to us. We all are an enlightened lot!!

Moments of this ride are captured here. Ah map to the secret place!! I will put it as soon as I get it :-) The secret it out!!

Just Ride folks!!

HBC

Sunil