Everyday is Yoga Day

Well we recently concluded national, or was it international, Yoga Day. It’s the one day when you have people bending like pretzels, into positions that you never thought was humanly possible. Flooding the internet, social media with pictures and videos of them performing various yoga asanas in celebration of the day.

But then you also have those who perform yoga everyday. They perform yoga asanas at each and every part of their day. For example, they do the reshape asana where they contort their body into different shapes so as to try an squeeze into any space, which they are fortunate enough to find, in a crowded Mumbai local. Then you have the hang-in-there asan, where you hang on for you dear life, to every little nook and crevice, that you can find while traveling by say a Virar local (I am a Western suburb guy, no bias here). Then you have the shrink asan where to you try to squeeze as much as possible so as to fit into that fourth seat or make place for that fourth seat. 

If these asanas weren’t enough then you have the holding your breath asana where you have to perform breath control when you’re pressed to someone with a well oiled head. The sarso and the naryal ka tail help you test your limits on how long you can hold your breath, and not to forget the various sweaty armpit, which you would be unfortunate to smell depending on your height. You also get a good stretch while trying to reach for the overhead handles that are two people away.

Then you come to office and you have to be constantly performing another set of asanas like the ballet asana where you constantly need to be on your toes, unless you’re the manager or the boss. You also have to do the bend-over asana where you need to bend forward and backward and in all directions to keep your leads, managers, bosses, clients, just about everyone, happy.

At the end of the day, when you’re back home after a tiring and stressful day, all you want to do is perform the shavasana, close your eyes and be dead to the world (not literally, hope you get the gist of what I mean).

So spare a thought for these poor souls, for whom every day is yoga day. They don’t even flood the social media and the Internet with videos and images of them doing yoga; most the time I don’t think they are even aware of what they are doing, but still do it every single day.