The International Day of Yoga has given a push for Yoga, something which was beyond our wildest imagination a few years ago.
Now, here’s a proposal: locals and tourists can participate after every rainy season once a month on a full moon night in a mega yoga session on beaches in south and north Goa.
Imagine: On every full moon night Goa’s beautiful beaches are changed into a festival site of good health rather than a place to party all night with loud music and drugs and even a death or two. I’m no wet blanket. Let’s, however, enlarge the menu.
Siddartha Gautama, they say, attained enlightenment on a full moon night. A buddha metamorphosed into Buddha!
On every full moon locals and tourists who are interested in good physical and mental health can participate in a festival of yoga and meditation session on the beaches of Goa as the sun goes down. I’ll leave the details to the yoga instructors, owners of shacks and the people of Goa although it might be a good idea to abstain from meat and eat a vegetarian-only dinner on this day.
All you have to do is show up on the beach on a full moon night prior to sunset, with or without a mat and sit down, close your eyes and watch the movie of your mind which wasn’t on the screen in the last movie festival in Goa.
Imagine thousands of desi and foreign buddhas sitting on the beaches, from Baga to Candolin, Velsao to Cavelossim on every full moon night in our Goa. What an incredible energy field.
We Goans would like the government to upgrade our health facilities all over Goa but let us not forget prevention is always better than a cure.
Once a month let’s have a yoga full moon festival which goes beyond borders, countries, cultures, races, religions and beliefs.
On every full moon let us all get drunk on life, on the magic of existence and the sacredness of everything. Yoga is one way among others – good medicine for the soul.
So, here’s an international invitation to a party with a difference!
