Participants of Bharat Thakur's Himalayan Challenge share what motivate and inspire them to complete the three-month yoga challenge. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00On April 7th, I was joined by four participants of the second Bharat Thakur's Himalayan
00:13Challenge to chronicle our three-month journey to wellness.
00:17This challenge is an intense fitness program created by yoga guru Bharat Thakur that entails
00:23three hours of yoga daily including an exercise regime and age-old mind and body cleansing
00:29techniques.
00:30Today, minus one challenger, we close our weight loss journal.
00:33I started this program not because of weight loss because I was already doing the RED program
00:39with Bharat Thakur's Artistic Yoga.
00:41When the program was introduced to me, it was told to me that it's not a weight loss
00:46program.
00:47It's a complete transformation program.
00:48It would work on all levels, psychological, mental, emotional and physical of course.
00:55So the weight loss, I was quite sure that it will happen.
00:59And I think whatever I've lost today, it's like a bonus for me.
01:03I was really concerned about my health and growing fat and of course work pressure.
01:08So I decided to call them like an impulse call.
01:11And then it took me one month to finally come down to meet people here.
01:15It took me only five minutes to decide that I should join.
01:18I think it's one of the right thing I've done ever in my life for myself.
01:21When we started, I had no clue what yoga is all about and I had no research done on that.
01:25But when I came here, I started realizing it's rightly said so by Dr. Bharat Thakur.
01:30It's an art.
01:31The most difficult thing for me is basically to catch up with the teachers.
01:34Initially, it was a struggle.
01:35Later on, it becomes a practice.
01:38And now it is turning into a passion to firstly to make them satisfied that yes, we can do
01:43something what they're trying to teach us.
01:46And then also to ourselves that yes, something which we can sustain later on.
01:50So yes, teachers to me was basically the essence of Himalayan Challenge.
01:54The first time I heard about Bharat Thakur Himalayan Challenge, I was pretty skeptical.
02:00I was like, is this, I mean, does this actually work and are people able to dedicate this
02:04much time and energy and you know, in today's busy world where all of us are running?
02:08I mean, does it actually work?
02:10I wasn't too sure to be honest.
02:11I think the primary aim of most of us is weight loss, but that's not the whole picture for sure.
02:17All of us have different stresses, you know, heaps going on in our lives.
02:21I realized that weight loss is not the only thing.
02:23I was obsessing about a few things that I had, didn't have in life.
02:27Started occupying my mind a little too much and I thought, let's try and do this.
02:30Right now I am happy, so much happy because when I was joining, I'm not healthier.
02:34Health wise, a lot of problem I'm facing like back paining, knee paining, you know, a lot of things.
02:40Once I decided to join, my weight was 100.
02:42Today, 83.5.
02:44My goal was 80.
02:45Just a few steps only I get.
02:47When I was doing yoga, very hard, but after I finished the class, I feel very happy.
02:52Everyone wants to achieve something.
02:54The goals of every human being are huge.
02:56First thing is that they're scared to even state their goals.
02:59Because instinctively we all know that the moment we state our goals, we need to do something about it.
03:04And it can disturb our lives.
03:06Also we make ambitions which sometimes run counter to the call of our soul.
03:10So that contradiction is something we don't want to deal with.
03:12So a lot of decisions we've taken which are getting in the way of our health and well-being.
03:15Once they start, what are they up for?
03:17Mentally, physically, emotionally.
03:19Okay, I want to get to my goal, but what does it mean I have to do?
03:22Everything has to happen and this has to happen.
03:24How do I do this?
03:26And then you go back to your work situation, you go back home.
03:28You go back with this kind of a zeal, with this kind of a sword inside you.
03:32And you're cutting up things all around.
03:33And then people have to deal with you.
03:35They fight with you, you fight with them.
03:37All this is part of the challenge which is backend.
03:39And trust me, the design includes all of that.
03:42We do expect all that to happen.
03:43And that's the fire.
03:44Because we just put sparks here.
03:46The fire is really lit up by their life.
03:48It's a spiral, it's just like an explosion towards the end.
03:50That's really what it means to want to be part of this.
03:53And that's the stuff of dreams, because dreams are made in fire.
03:57The Himalayan Challenge is all about the dream you want to live.
04:00And creating that fire inside you that can take you to your dream.
04:02Initially, everybody comes with a lot of enthusiasm.
04:05Because it's like that initial excitement that I'm going to do something new.
04:09And it's a challenge for them and they're desperate to lose weight also.
04:13So everything put together, they are very excited.
04:15They are ready to give their 100%.
04:17But once they get into it, they know that it's hard work.
04:21So after a while, it loses its charm.
04:23Those are the testing times.
04:24They don't want to follow the diet.
04:26They feel like giving up.
04:27They don't want to come for two classes.
04:29Some days they get bored and they don't want to do it.
04:31Those are the times where really they need to push themselves.
04:34Challenging moments.
04:35And they even get angry if we push them a little too hard.
04:38But it's our job, we need to do that.
04:40That's when they should not give up and persist
04:43and not forget their goals.
04:44Some days when you had a particularly tough day at work
04:48or just a particularly tough day, a crap day, a rubbish day.
04:51And you just want to go home, dive under the bed covers with a book
04:55or with some food.
04:56And then you tell yourself, no, you have to come here.
04:58You've got this to go to.
04:59The first three weeks, for sure, it was a challenge.
05:01You know, I had to push myself.
05:02No, you have to go.
05:03You know what?
05:04You're doing it.
05:04You've paid for it.
05:05You've signed up for it.
05:06You're doing it.
05:07You've made a commitment.
05:08As time went by, I didn't have to think twice about coming here.
05:12Even on days when I was sick, when I was low,
05:14when I was not the best days of the month,
05:18I automatically came in here, did my best, and felt better.
05:22That's the best part of it.
05:23I'm actually a lazy.
05:24Like sleeping, food time, eating, on time eat, on time sleep.
05:28And now there's nothing.
05:29Time to eat, time to sleep.
05:31And each and every second, they're
05:32teaching how valuable each and every second.
05:35Like sometimes yoga, we are posting one minute.
05:40One minute we are standing in our position.
05:45Now how hard this, I know.
05:47Sometimes they are standing 10 seconds.
05:49They're counting second by second.
05:51This is very, very, very hard.
05:53But now I got it each and every second how it's valuable.
05:55We convinced about their own greatness
05:58and not to think of themselves as something insignificant.
06:01We had to actually work on, apart from just teaching them yoga
06:04and making them look the best that they can,
06:07it's more about transforming them to what's real
06:13and what's a dream, to separate the two of them.
06:16So that they can really attain their full potential.
06:19And here it's about what's more possible for them
06:22being what they are.
06:23From the beginning, when we started the program,
06:25I have seen a very high emotional change in myself.
06:30It was an extreme thing.
06:31I was very happy, not just because I
06:34was seeing a physical change in me, but generally speaking,
06:37emotionally, I was very high.
06:39Suddenly, during the middle of the program,
06:42the tables had turned completely.
06:44I was in the worst period of my life.
06:47I had crashed emotionally.
06:48I think that's what the program has done.
06:51It's like you've been put in a washing machine
06:53and you've gone through a spin cycle.
06:56And you come out shining and bright.
06:58During this time, my emotions have stabilized.
07:02I think it has gone for a positive change rather
07:06than the negative.
07:07I learned that the discipline in life
07:09is something which is really, very important.
07:11Not in terms of eating, not in terms of meeting people,
07:14not in terms of your gestures and behavior,
07:18but I think it's an overall thing.
07:20And that's where I believe that I have relearned
07:23and re-coached myself through this program
07:26and through these people.
07:27And it's something which is the biggest takeaway for myself.
07:30If I continue to act at least in 90%
07:33of what they have taught me until now,
07:36I think I'm through.
07:37In many ways, our trek has just begun.
07:40From here, we take a bigger onus.
07:43Will we be able to sustain these new practices
07:46or will we fall back to our old habits?
07:49I'll let you know in three months.
07:52Manjari Saxena for Tabloid.