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City Weekly post about my work

2015-05-21T00:04:00.002-04:00

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Santosh Yoga Institute

2015-02-20T13:16:00.003-05:00

SantoshYoga Institute

This year I decided to start my new venture Santosh Yoga Institute focus of this institute is to train yoga teachers in traditional way, offer yoga courses and help corporations to keep their employees happy an healthy using Yoga. More information coming soon!

Interview of my dad with Park city TV

2013-12-30T00:12:00.002-05:00

On FOX13 news showing some Yoga Poses

2012-06-27T15:50:00.000-04:00

Hanuman in Mahabharata - Did you know this?

2012-02-19T10:53:00.002-05:00

During the Pandavas' exile, he appeared disguised as a weak and aged monkey before his (spiritual) half-brother, the Pandava prince Bhima in order to subdue his arrogance and teach him the value of humility.

More significantly, during the great battle of Kurukshetra, Arjuna entered the battlefield with the flag of Hanuman on his chariot. The incident that led to this was an earlier ecounter between Hanuman and Arjuna; Hanuman appeared as a small talking monkey before Arjuna at Rameshwaram, where Sri Rama had built the great bridge to cross over to Lanka to rescue Sita. Upon Arjuna's wondering out aloud at Sri Rama's taking the help of "monkeys" rather than building a bridge of arrows, Hanuman (in the form of the little monkey) challenged him to build one capable of bearing him alone, and Arjuna, unaware of the monkey's true identity accepted. Hanuman then proceeded to repeatedly destroy the bridges made by Arjuna who became depressed and suicidal, and decided to take his own life. Vishnu then appeared before them both, chiding Arjuna for his vanity, and Hanuman for making the accomplished warrior Arjuna feel incompetent. As an act of 'penitence', Hanuman agreed to help Arjuna by stabilising and strengthening his chariot during the then-likely great battle.

Hanuman, thus, had the fortune of hearing the Gita as recited by Sri Krishna himself. Many worshippers of Lord Krishna (who drove Arjuna's chariot) keep flags of Hanuman as a mark of respect to his great devotion, and honour Hanuman. For instance, the Sri Krishna Matha at Udipi bears an idol of Hanuman (known as Mukhyaprana at the site), and all offerings made to Lord Krishna are also offered to Hanuman before being distributed to devotees.

Get connected to me !!!

2009-10-09T18:16:00.001-04:00

Weekly Update

2009-06-01T11:19:00.001-04:00

Weekly Update
1. After spending a long weekend in Zion and Vegas this week was really very busy.
It was fun long weekend with Alan,Noel,Lindsay,Jamie and Kelly.
Lots of Hiking, Yoga, Poll , Chilling, Campfire, Music, Meditation.

2. Recived details from Yale for voluteering but facing some problems.

3. Hardly I have done 5 hours of studies in this week. This bothers me a lot .. :( I need to focus on my schedule.

4. My Phone started giving me problem .I think it's time to change .. I want G2 or iPhone :)

5. My shoulder hurts because of more hand stand practise in Yoga Class.

6. Friday and Saturday was chill out day with my Roommate and Brandon who is going away to Denver.

7. Sunday was full of Ashtanga and brunch at Oasis with Jeff, Saraha, Dona and Tom.

8. 19 days to go for Wasatch Releay. Need to inrease my practise to 2 times a day.

It's already Monday and seems this week is very busy.

Though for the Day !!

2009-06-01T10:43:00.001-04:00

"I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that
some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning,
middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the
moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen
next. Delicious ambiguity."

- Gilda Radner (1946 – 1989)
An American comedienne and actress

Swami Vivekananda

2009-05-20T01:54:00.002-04:00

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

- Swami Vivekananda, (1863-1902)

What I have accomplised on saturday ?

2009-05-16T21:47:00.005-04:00

- Yoga
- Breakfast
- Meditation
- Read TRUMP book
- Read Men's health magazine

drinking my green tea while watching M-TV
- Motivating myself to go to gym.

Other than planning my coming week and reading book I have not achieved anything..

Shirshasana ( Head Stand ) :: Yoga pose

2009-05-14T19:03:00.005-04:00

Shirshasana ( Head Stand )

Along my way to achieve the perfectness in each Aasnas, I have decided to share my experiance and benifits of that pose with you guys.
Please make sure before trying any of these aasana you properly do your warm up and if you have any injuries do't even give a try :)

Some people may think what's there in the name of the Asana ?..
Trust me if you understand the real meaning of the Asana then it will be easier for you to perform and understand the benifits of the same.

Shirshasana || Shirsha - The meaning of Shirsha is Head. Assana - Stands for Pose. ||
This Asana is well know by the name Head stand.

You must have heard a story about diffrent kind of torture.
When I was growing up I heard many times that military/Polic use this technique of hanging upside down this is very similar to our head stand .
I really do't know the actal reason of using that technique but below is my guess about why they use it.
, which causes improved brain function (intelligence and memory) and increased vitality and confidence.
1. It circulation to the brain which causes improved brain function (intelligence and memory) and helps the truth come out.
2. If you are not yogi then It will make you uncomfortable and in return person will offer to break the silance and will get the sound sleep.

Bats are the only mammals which sleeps up side down. Only because their legs are not strong hence they can't stand on their legs that's why they use downward gravitational pull.

Below are some of the main benifits of Shirshasana.
1. Improves the brain function( Improved memory).
It's very obvious that if you do this pose because of gravitational force blood will flow towards your head.

2. Backpain
This Asana will make the spine allignmnet correct naturally if done correctly. Over long term it makes nervous system stronger.

There are lots of other benifits I will update this post with more benifits sometime.

There are diffrent variation of this pose the main concept stay the same.
I have been practising this Asana from last 10 days and I have reached to the level where I can stay in this pose comfortably for 10 min.

My Idea goal for this pose is to achive advance level in this pose where I can riase my head from the groud with the help of hand. ( I will be posting pic once I reach there !!! )
This Asana is also called as "Raja of the Asana" ( King of all poses) .
If you are new to this pose I would suggest to try Tripod first and slowly go towards Hand Stand. Take the support of wall if you need support but after 2-3 tries this pose will give you s much confidance that you will be able to do this with out any help.

Stay tunned for more Asana's!!

Quote of the day !!

2009-05-13T18:45:00.001-04:00

Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is

Power of word

2009-05-09T18:17:00.003-04:00

Recently I was talking to my co-worker about his weekend plan. He told me he is going for a "Rappling" -- well I know the meaning of that world, but when I said that word there was huge difference between how I pronounced it and how my co-worker pronounced it .. but still we know what we are talking about :)

so if you know the meaning of the world then it does't matter how you pronounce it.

On other hand -- If you do't know the real meaning of the world and when you use it at wrong context or place.. trust me that will spoil your life ...

Words are so powerful and alive if you cut or use them ( even unintentionally ) they are going to bleed. Words got that power to destroy everything.

By words we learn thoughts, and by thoughts we learn life but if we use wrong words then other person is not going to learn about you or your life.

below are some of the good quotes about the word.

"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
- Manly Hall

“Words divide us, actions unite us.”

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

“A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles”

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words”

Becoming PM of your life using scrum !!

2009-05-08T00:04:00.004-04:00

Some of you must be wondering what I am talking about? What is scrum ?

Little background about how I got into Scrum and got more inclined toward it ..
In my previous job we used water fall methodology for project management for the same I have gone through the Function Point training.

On my first day at current company I got introduced to "Daily Stand-up" by one of my favorite manger. Daily stand-up is part of Agile methodology. After working in agile for couple of months without much theoretical knowledge, I started comparing productivity of myself with my previous job and realized that definitely there is improvement and I am keeping track of my work in more organized way.

One day our Direct Sean who given us a training on Agile and that training was really a good turning point for me to learn more on Agile.

I will not be able to write how we use Agile in work because of "Work Ethic"..but I will try to explain it how I am trying to use it in my life.

I have considered every year as a one project. Give a meaning full name to that project e.g. My this year's project name is "Healthy and Intelligent Buddha" .. I do't know how I came up with that name.. I wanted some funny name !!!

Create a weekly iteration with 3-4 stories and every day/week visit your stories see to how much progress you have made in that. Next step is dividing each story into different task.

e.g. Below are 3 stories for of my last week iteration.
Story A - Work on Yoga balancing poses.
Story B - Increase reading.
Story C - Prepare for Wasatch Ranger Relay

Then I divided my Stories into small every day task.
e.g.
Story-A|Task 1.a - Work on getting Mayur Asana ( Yoga - Peacock pose for 2 min )
Story-B|Task 2.b - Finish E=Mc2 by David Bodanis
Story-C|Task 1.c Go for a 6 Miles of run ( AS part of Wasatch Ranger Relay)

Well long story short... I am able to get my personal goals very organized and more importantly track them properly.

I am running out of time to finish today's blog. I will be writing more on Agile/Scrum sometime next week.

I forgot to tell you guys, I have received my Scrum Master certification(CSM), but I think I have learned more about it from my Manager and Director.

ciao !!!

Sleepless in salt lake city

2009-04-04T11:32:00.003-04:00

The title of this blog is stolen from one of my friends blog...

It seems my new time management skills are working and within weeks time I was able to get into my new daily routine.

After four hours of productive reading on Saturday morning I was suppose to go for marathon practice, but it's snowing in Salt Lake City. Can somebody remind Mr.Weather that it's spring time ? I dropped my practice and decided to update my blog.

Meditation, Yoga, Gym, running, Hiking , reading, Guitar, Rock climbing , Volunteering for non-profit animal organizations etc etc... and list goes on ... these are the things which are going on in my life currently and they are eating most of my time other than work time.

I am running short of time to achieve my goals in my life.I enjoy doing all these activities which I mentioned, but sometimes I think that I should not always do the activities which makes me happy. I need to focus on achieving my goals, for that I have to prepare myself to sacrifice some of the activities. It's really very hard :)

Other option is reducing 9% of sleep time and increasing 9% of meditation time which will give me an extra hour for my studies.....calculate how much hour I sleep ? haha well this is typical percentage problem for GMAT.

After increasing my practice in the meditation I am experiencing the benefits of it. This is helping me to become more organized and focused in my life. Hopefully if time permits I will be writing another post separately for Meditation in coming days.

Caio

Adam's Canyon Hike.

2008-10-21T17:58:00.018-04:00

"No pain No gain" after crying whole summer because I moved to one of the beautiful place on west side & not able to go for single Hike in the mountain. Instead I was spending lot of time doing my physiotherapy exercise for my broken Ankle, reading the books instead of going to grant canyon & other places around, walking on the crutches instead of enjoying beaches, watching the movies at home instead of sky diving ...I did missed all the summer activities.
I was waiting for green signal from my physiotherapist to go on Hike...I was bit jealous while watching the pictures of my trekking group back in India

Finally I decided to skip the Fall color trip organized by my friends in SLC & decided to go for hike. I was very excited for this Hike. Almost after 1 year :)

Day was perfect, weather was perfect, location was perfect, Hike was not that hard.. I was little worried because of my ankle. We started around 1 pm. it was 5 miles hike both way at Adam's canyon.
It was really a fun hike..This hike reminded me about my Lohagad hike in Mumbai which I went with Dinesh & pradeep back in India.

I was having all the required things for the hike. Me & Kate went to the grocery store to buy some fruits in case we need some energy :) while shopping at grocery store Kate told me some very interesting stories when we were passing by a "weight loss section" in the store :) ..we picked up some fruits, Carrots, tomato, sports bars.

Scott was leading the hike...Scott knows every thing about this trail. He was telling all of us the stories of his old hikes, new bike group, his family matter & all ..he was showing all off the good spot for the pictures & sharing the mountain stories & future hikes.

We were moving slowly towards the destination enjoying the nice fall color around. thought out the hike there was a waterfall which was one of the best thing I liked about this hike. Trail was pretty clean but at some places there was some trash which Kate was collecting in her trash bag .. :)

when we reached at the middle of the mountain the view of the Layton & lake was awesome. You can see the lake touching the sky.

when we reached the destination there was beautiful water fall. we took some rest enjoyed the waterfall. After 2 hours of hike this "Walking talking Philly chick" was
keeps every one entertained with her non-stop interesting stories about her hospital, Politics,Yoga etc.. from where she got so much of energy ?

Daine & Andrea was busy enjoying views from different angle taking pictures & they got some interesting game called as Geotech ( not sure about the name ) it was something like treasure hunt. I need to find out more on this.

After a wonderfull 4 hours hike we decided to go to McCool for dinner. I was real hungry :) I wanted some enrgy for Garba..
After the hike I directly went to the Garba aound 8.00 pm where Sheetal & Snehanshu were coming all the way from San-Jose. Everyone was in traditional wear for Garba except me :( .. I did Garba till 10.30 in the night & My ankle was not at all bothering me..

Garba was really awesome .. the live band which came from Baroda they played all old songs like Khai ke pan banaras wal & Bhangra :)

It was real nice weekend .. I enjoyed..

I already have my next weekend planed .. for Boweling , Hunted House, Halloween Party & Another hike to big cottonwood canyon.

Back in action - Power of Yoga.

2008-10-18T00:48:00.004-04:00

How my lifestyle is changing ? to answer this question I decided to recollect how was my typical day before 5-10-15 yrs ? It's changing a lot ..

When I talk to my Mom & Dad first question they always ask me is r u doing Yoga & Pranayam regularly ? I tell them No, I am doing swimming & Other exercise. Dad always encourages( In fact sometimes forces) me to do it regularly.

When I was growing up in Latur I use to go to "Arya Samaz" for doing Yoga & Pranayam. That reminds me all the fun me & my friends had there.. How can I forget those prices which I won in Yoga.

Finally I have decided to start doing Yoga again. I started attending different Yoga classes in SLC . I found that I was sweating in the class(I never use to sweat while doing Yoga) & It was real fast. It was more of a stretch than Yoga. After doing some research I found that now there are different type of Yoga's ( Don't ask me how many types are there :) )

More to come ....next week :)

Internet Marketing Statergies

2008-09-19T18:37:00.004-04:00

I am really very excited to start my course for "Internet Marketing Strategies"
When I shared this information with some people I was able to see some kind of surprises on their faces.
Yes - I am going out of line from my Technical/Management professional skills.

Recently I have joined my company's Marketing Book Club. We are reading some interesting books related to marketing.

1. Groudswell
2. The Goal
3. Blink This book is not really a marketing book that's what I feel. It's more about sixth's scene. I will put another post once I complete reading this book.

Thought of the day.

2006-12-22T17:33:00.000-05:00

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."

Secret of Lalu's Success

2006-09-18T22:56:00.000-04:00

" The dedication of the 1.45 million railway men, officials and staff. I usually introduce innovative ideas for making extra income. We concentrate hard on not to increase freight and passenger fare despite the increase in diesel prices. " Lalu Prasad yadav.

My commnets :: After going through all the articals abt the laluji's visit to IIM-A .. to reach such a grt suceess you need to really work hard..
i do rember some of the events which were in the news before some moths

1. Lalu ji supended some people who came late to the office .. for that he was there at the office early in the morning ....
2. He was more focused on making money from small changes .. like ..giveing tea in a
"Kullad" ..

One suggestion .. Advertising can add lot of more money into the account of indian railway if it is well planned .. Hope to see the change very soon ....

Thought !!

2006-09-12T15:40:00.000-04:00

"If you talk, you repeat what you already know. If you listen, you learn."
- Clint Mueller

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

2006-08-15T20:33:00.000-04:00

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca.

Apartment !!!

2006-08-13T12:59:00.000-04:00

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Aprtment .

Hundson river & NYC from my room !!!

2006-08-13T12:56:00.000-04:00

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Hundson river & NYC from my room !!!

View from my room !!!!

2006-08-13T12:53:00.000-04:00

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View from my room !!!!