Dr Aswath on Pranayama

Most of us had heard about kmch pediatrician Dr Aswath. I am always admired by his profession and his character.

Usually to meet him for consultation they used to send a group of around 10 kids accompanied by 1 parent for each child. This time I got a chance to take mugi to Dr Aswath for a medical review. Around 30 mnts I saw him giving lot of advice to parents apart from medical advice.

Around 6 to 7 kids out of 10 kids on that  group was suffering from some sort of respiratory issues. For this issue Dr had advised some medicines according to the kids. And he strongly recommended to practice some other activities like doing Pranayama, yoga and physical exercise. I was much impressed by this.

Nowadays kids are facing more respiratory problems due to pollution. I had noticed a lot. Whenever I am in Vavi I always try to walk at least 15-20 mnts a day in fresh air. I can feel the difference while walking early morning at Tirupur and in Vavi.

Now on wards as we have to seriously consider adding Pranayama to our routine life.

Try to minimize using air conditioning and fan at home. Open windows to get fresh air circulation. Allow kids to play more. Try to go for Art of living course.

Let us make some changes in our lifestyle for betterment of our kids.

China tour 2013

China tour -  April 2013

I had planned to visit china for 2 reasons. I strongly believed that as i am into trading China is the biggest manufacturer in the world. I belived that the goods manufactured in china will be 30% cheaper than in india for most of the goods.
Second is the china import and export fair (contain fair). This is considered as one of the biggest fair in the world.
And the third reason is to meet existing suppliers and the chinese food.

Shangai.

This is my third visit to shangai. Previously i had visited china in 2006 & 2007. This time i saw lot of wind farms which was genarating power. Most important is that it was built on river or on sea. We stayed in a normal hotels in shangai which was costing below 300¥. Eventhough we were busy with lot of meetings and factory visits we went to Shangai city center. This city looked beautiful during night time. The lightings was great.

As usual the inftastuctues like roadways, subways,airways and railways was great. This time i noticed lots of tunnels. During my road travel of around 800 kms  i had gone thro around 80 tunnels. I heard that there is high speed train runs between Shanghai and Beijing in 3 hrs. And there is train from Guangzhou to beijing that runs in 8hrs. If i had known this before i could have planned for a visit to see great wall of china.

Food.

During my first visit to china in 2006 i did not eat food for 3 days. That was terrible days. I was not able to find better food which suits me. Then after 3 days i was able to get cup noodles. And we were also able to identify McDonald and KFC. Diuring my 1st visit i survived only with cup noodle and KFC burger.

This time most of the suppliers and Chinese friends took us for lunch and dinners. They always ordered typical Chinese food. Mostly it contains boiled beef,pork,goose,green leaves and variety of seafood. In restaurants we sit in a round table and the food is kept in a round glass tray were we can rotate and take whatever we want to eat. Chinese tea is served first. I liked the Chinese food so much. Its steamed and very good for digestion.

Yiwu city,

Usually we don't go outside apart from our business activity. This time one of my  friend  Mr Arun (Native Erode)invited to visit Yiwu city and his office. This city is totally a different   place. When we reached we saw lot of other people like people from Africa, and gulf countries. Most of them are Muslims. Then we went for a market which was 4 floors and length was almost half km, surprised to see that there were around 7000 shops in one particular market. Like that there were around 4-5 markets. Each shops will be around 150 - 200 sqft. Thousands of products were seen. Mostly they were whole-sellers and they will ship container orders. And in streets we found lots of copies iPhone and S3s and latest Tabs with same brand for 5000-7000Rs compared to original price of 25000-40000Rs. We all were shocked and finally purchased few. Mr Arun is there in china from 2005. He is exporting to around 25 countries. He will be a useful partner in long run for importing goods from china. This city is a great experience and must visit china when you go to china.

Canton Fair - Guangzhou,

This is China import and export fair, considered as one of the biggest fair in the world. Every year it is held in 3 phases with 4 days in each phase. For me this is 1st time visiting such a huge fair. We spent 2 entire days trying to cover all the stalls and products. We had seen Lot of interesting products such as smart cooker Rs50,000 which cooks automatically with the help of software which can even controlled by mobile applications, robotic vacuum cleaner which cleans rooms and hall, pricing from around 3000 to 30,000. It automatically moves to recharging station. Lot of LED lights and ultra HD TVs. Tab and mobile manufactures with OEM. This is a great place to see the future products.

Foshan city,

This is the second time visit for Foshan city. We have a very old friend Jockey and his boss. They are such a great people,(They came to India once to see us).Spent 2 days with them. Foshan city is famous for its tiles, ceramics and toilet fitting items. Most of the popular products are manufactured here. Few of the popular brand owners are friends of jockey boss.

Macau & Hong Kong,

Maccau was in the list of must visit places in our list. So for leisure we planned 2 days in Macau, Venetian Macau is a one of the very popular hotel. Casino and there were shopping malls inside mall. Around 5000 people were gambling there, i did not understand much and not attracted towards casino. Beautiful place but always filled with cigarattee smoke. Very expensive and there is nothing to spend more than a day. So we took 1 hr ferry from Maccau to Hong kong. Hong kong is also very expensive. Just we went for shopping on final day of our trip.

14 days was with full of new experiences, visited lot of places and met lot of people. Again a great experience. Planned to visit at least once in 2 years.

My trekking experience at Vellingiri hills

    Last year i had seen a interesting post in Facebook by one of my classmate Ashok who studied along with me in college.  He had posted few interesting pictures about his trekking experience in Vellingiri hills. Few days later my uncle also told his experience about his spiritual visit to Vellingiri hills. Around May of last year i decided to trek this hill. From June it will be rainy season and it is impossible to trek.  So i fixed January or february 2013 to trek. I told about this to my friends and they also liked this idea. I informed Ashok and he  made all arrangements for the trekking.

    28th jan around 5 pm Me, Karthic and Yuvaraj started from Tirupur and reached Isha yoga center cottage around 7.30 PM. There we met Ashok after a gap of 12 years. He had arranged accommodation for us in Isha yoga centre. Isha was a unique place where lot of  people and more foreigners were also seen. We had dinner there and it was different experience, there was no dining table for dinner we had to sit down. The food was served by volunteers including foreigners. The dish contained some grains, fruits, and rice.

     After our dinner, around 8.30pm we had a meeting with the organizers in Isha who arranged for trekking. They had briefed about our next day's plan. Our group was with 25 members including 2 Canadians and  6 organizers.

Trekking

     We started from our cottage and reached Poondi temple (foothills) at 6AM. Organizers had provided food bag which contained 4 chapatis with takkali tokku for Breakfast, Pack of pulisadam for lunch, 2 Apples, Glucose packet, juice, water bottle and few sweets.

     It looked like we are starting to walk 70 degree, It took almost 1 hr to reach the 1st hill. We had a 10 minutes break there. We had almost tired, started feeling pain and slightly thought of quitting.

     From thereon steps were available only in few areas, there is a small stream at end of 2nd hill after 1.45hrs of hiking and we can refill our water bottle. At end of 3rd hill we settled for breakfast around 8.30AM  and after 2.30hrs of hiking. Its been so hungry and the taste of chapati was great.

     4th  hill  there is no steps at all and route was so hard. We have to hike in between bushes.

     5th and 6th hill its not so steep. Its almost a plain area. 

     This is defiantly most beautiful place. From here on the breeze was cool and pleasant.  There were beautiful misty clouds passing across us. This valley gives you a spectacular view. The opposite hill and valley looked beautiful.

     At the end of 6th hill there is a small stream. We had a memorable bath in freezing water. I never had such a cold shaver before.Its very very cold at 10AM. Water was clear and tasty. It was  refreshing and body got more energetic . From 6th hill we can see the top of 7th hill. 

     After around 10AM we started feeling the heat. After few meters the organizers asked us to remove our shoes. We kept our shoes behind the bush and started hiking. The path was slippery and difficult to walk. It could have been very very tough to walk with shoes. It looked like we need to walk few meters but took more time and pain. It almost took 45 minutes to reach top. There is a small temple near the huge rock on the top of the hill.

     It took 4.45 hrs to reach top. The breeze and view was spectacular. It was more satisfying, we once thought we may not able to make it to the top. Climbing around 1600 ft was amazing. From there on organizers took us to a place they call it as Sadhguru spot. We spent around 30 minutes there by meditating and enjoying the view and breeze. 

     Around 1 PM we had our lunch and started to get down. Getting down was as hard as hiking. It took 3.53hrs to reach poondi temple. Everyone had  to take 5-6 ft Bamboo stick (organisers will provide). It is impossible for the 1st time trekkers to get down without that stick.

     After few minutes we reached our cottage in Isha yoga centre. Had a wonderful hot water shower which was relaxing and got little relief from pain. Started from there at 7pm and reached home by 9pm.

Pain

It was a unique experience for me, karthic and yuvaa. We stretched our body to the maximum. We did not had such a tough workout in a single day like this before. Pain around calf, ties and knee continued for almost a week. We might have had lost 2-3 kgs. Body felt fitter now. You have to continue your routine workouts after 2-3days, because it will make you much fitter and you can feel the difference.  

Next plan

We are planning to comeback each year around January. This is our first trekking and it was a great experience. We are planning to trek once in every month. Who knows we may be trekking in Himalayas in 5 years from now.

View my workout session at

http://www.runtastic.com/sport-sessions/42730883

My Aliyar Rejuvenation

    Myself with my 4 friends used to travel a lot. We used to travel right from our colleage days(since 1999). There are lot of places where we travelled and found lots of exictments. Places like masanagudi, kodai, allepy, kumarakom, shimla, kullu, shangai, singapore, colombo had given lot of memories. But last week above everthing we had found a different experience when we travelled to Aliyar which is just 80kms from tirupur.

Aliyar Arivu Thirukoil
   This ashram is located at footsteps of a beautiful valparai hills. We went to attend foundation course class for 5days.We had experienced lot of new things...

Physical Exercises,
  we learnt a different type of physical exercise, its a combination of few yogas, breathing exercise, acupuncture, massages and stretching. It was little difficult at initial days but during 4th and 5th day we completed all exercises in 1hr. Video CDs available for physical exercise, it will be useful to continue exercise when we do at home. These exercises do not have side effects as it is purely based on stretching.

Kayakalpam,
 We never heard about this before. There is lot of secrets hidden in this Kayakalpam. People above 14yrs has to learn about this. I can't explain now... everyone should attend the class and know about this. 1 day course for Kayakalpam is also available in all branches of Vazga Vazamudan. 5 minutes in morning and evening is enough for doing  this exircise.

Meditation,
 Three types of meditation are thought in this course. initially we may not able to understand but after 2-3days we can feel the difference. This is very very important to improve our concentration.

Agathayu,
   All the subjects that are covered in this is to improve our personality, Each days we had detailed class, some experienced professor's  lecture was excellent. These classes redefined our characters like ANGER, DESIRE,SORROWS,THOUGHTS,FAMILY etc. There are lot of professors who will help you personally for whatever your doubts. you can ask whatever you want!!!.

Accommodation and food was excellent....

We had learnt lot of new things in 5days. we suggest all of you to experience......