As part of India Week we are celebrating Indian Culture, Tradition and Life today. Here yoga instructor Adam Olivestone describes his amazing experiences of studying yoga in India.
"India had always been one of those places that was on my list of ‘must-go-there-one-day' but honestly speaking, the fact that it's not known as being the easiest place to travel in, to put it mildly, as well as the guarantee from nearly everyone I'd met who'd been there - ‘If you go to India you WILL get sick', was enough for it to remain on the back burner. But then I got into yoga.....
I'll spare you the boring, indulgent details of why yoga had become a big part of my life but suffice to say that several years working in advertising was enough to drive me to look for something to alleviate the stress and spiritual turmoil I found myself in. After trying many different classes around London and further afield, Ashtanga yoga was the one that seemed to stick.
Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga or ‘Eight limbs' is a system of yoga based on the writings and philosophy of the ancient Indian sage Patanjali. It was popularised in the West in its current form by Sri K Pattabhi Jois, who passed away in 2009 and whose family continue to run the main Ashtanga school in Mysore, India.
