Last Laugh

and comes another gathering...

A group activity called exploring inner wisdom! And I am invited to join in. I am certainly going to outnumber Dattatray in finding tutors being pupil for life for study of life.

So this yet another tutor is lady over the hill in age. I am amazed and inspired by this age group. Their kids have flew away from home in top notch universities and husbands are still active in money making and they have all the time in the world. I am sure it is not as easy as it sounds. We all talk about girl child being born again and yet again when she gets married and then when she gives birth. I see another birth when everyone leaves home and you are left with little bit of you left in your hand and little bit used/invested for your loved ones. You have to find your own calling once again. recollect the strength and rediscover what you do with you time to fill the vaccuum. Hats off!! So this tutor is social live-wire, travels here and there across India and in her spare time plays golf!! Routinely she conducts yoga classes for young proffesionals at home and serves as alternative therapist.

So I arrive at her place with my pencil and notepad as second grader in the class of wisdom. wow plush apartment to fit 20 ladies for yoga! I feel I am entering temple, beautifully kept her signature artifects, fragrances and music. This pair of ladies complimeting each other but talking about essentially same thing started combined talk on the mic.

Senior speaker supposedly covering spiritual aspect of well being starts off the talk with explaining molecules...

(Umm teacher ji, Are you sure I am in spiritual awakening class sounds like a science lesson to me??)

So she explains about vibrations first, how everything visible or non-visible vibrates. How vibrations have different effect on our systems. Different type of excercises such as trademill walk, tai chi, marshal art, yoga, rhythmic breathing, aerobic, kick boxing all make differnt vibrations with different effect on our body. Same way vibrations created by different ragas have different impacts such as Bhairvi to hansadhwani to durga.

To produce positive vibrations for different purpose, rishi s have created combination of seedling of sounds called Beej-mantra with certain intonation. So to kick start out health and wellbeing session utters Maha Mrityunjay mahamantra and insists everone gets correct pronounciation. We repeated 11 times visualizing its meaning everytime and feeling the vibrations. After 11 rounds we sat in vaccuum silence charged with this vibratons for 6 minutes. They says this vibration enhances quality of life as opposed to longevity.

Wake everyone Tea break now!!

Maid comes and arranges watery Lemon tea on table in beautiful china! What is this? Gathering in India people spoilt by servants and no samosas??? Back in UK not a single gathering completed without samosas.

Break ke baad.. the main host starts her talk and she explains in 2 lines how laughter yoga has picked up pace all over the world started by Dr. Madan Kataria. She tells us to follow the leader ( herself). First round is clapping rythemic with 'ha ha ho ho ho'. (whats this santa is coming or what?) then it picks up..

First polite laughter, then comes electric laughter and comes political laughter and lion laughter. Once its triggered its hard to stop. everyone keeps on laughing without any sign of coming to halt. session ends with guided relaxation and angel card game.

As I understood laughter gets rid of carbon from the body faster and facelifts your mustle and makes lungs stronger and pulls stomach bag in. I come home to be greeted with the word 'your face is looking rosy today? what have you done?'

Why do we watch sitcoms? go to parties? comedies? and ofcourse u-tubes? for one-minute-long laugh?
What happens after that?
why not induce laughter ourselves and rip the benefit?

So I have no need to have 'last laugh' when I can go laughing all the way to my last moment!!!

.....And laughing continues....