YES!+ Experience(27th july 2010)

A new crowd came on 27^th July to get empowered. They did not have much idea about what was going to be there in the course, nor did we as volunteer knew how the course will progress. But there was a difference between participants and volunteers. They were puzzled. We volunteers (Mohit, piyush, Hiren, Sneha, Divyesh and myself Ronak) had “shraddha” that things will go well. Dinesh bhaiyya says that Faith cannot replace the beautiful word “shraddha” (in Sanskrit).

 First day was something like this. Participants sitting alone and not talking to others. Some looking at guruji’s photo and giving strange looks, and Some reading the instruction receipt. Some were feeling odd sitting down on the floor. Some were staring at the registration desks, trying to figure out what’s happening there. Finally their journey started, not just of the course!

With great enthusiasm, Tushar bhaiya started the course. If you want to give light to others, first you should have your own. All YES!+ teachers are full of enthusiasm. Sometimes I wonder where they get all this from! As volunteers  one of our job was to organize things. When things organize, they become beautiful. Right things at right place at right time. To do so much of right you need your left logical brain to function properly. Apart from participants, even we all volunteers were also learning during the course. Actually we were learning before and after the course as well.

During the course we had many YES!+ teachers who came and shared knowledge with participants. Gaurav bhaiya, Harsha didi, Tejal didi and some other teachers came and added value to the course. On the second day, even participants were amazed seeing how breathing techniques works fantastically well.

 We volunteers had fun taking yoga, suryanamaskara and Pranayam counts. We felt alert, responsible, relaxed and joyful at the same time. Making people copy you, in yoga, warm up and suryanamaskara feels great. Satsang was fantastic with manjira and dholak. We missed Sarthak’s Guitar this time. Those 60 minutes of satsang with everyone passed very fast.

Official timing of the course to get over was 2pm on 1^st august. But it went till 4pm. Participants had a glimpse of art of living family. Finally we pushed them to their home knowing that they will not go by their own. After that we had volunteers meet.  There were 2 reasons. First was friendship day and second was planning for forthcoming courses. We realized that we should have such meetings regularly. When you talk about your ideas with people who have similar intentions, your ideas take shape and become implementable with the help of others. Bawa says it’s a good idea to implement a good idea. With a vision to improve, we all volunteers ended the first series of our meeting. It was perfect YES!+ meeting. With lots of fun, learning, people listening to each other and interacting. Can’t have better friendship day than this ! (The above experience was shared by YES!+ volunteer Ronak pala). 

Here is the video of 27th July 2010 YES!+ Course. Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6yAx_wdpeM

Jai Gurudev...