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Mumbai Marathon 2024

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Participating in the Mumbai Marathon was an experience I had always longed for. The journey began when my friend asked me to register for the event in August, even though the marathon was scheduled for January 2024. The commitment seemed premature, but I went ahead and registered. I wasn't too worried about the preparation as I had previously run a half marathon and, along with my husband Rajesh and son Rishit, I had been running for an hour daily for the past three years. Moreover, my biweekly yoga and pilates sessions helped build my strength and stamina. Five weeks prior to the marathon, I completed a long run training with my running buddies, which boosted my confidence in my running abilities. I've always had three simple goals for every run: to run injury-free, to ensure a short recovery time, and most importantly, to enjoy the run. I'm pleased to say that I achieved all three in this marathon. The primary challenge was running in a different city and navigating th
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Meditation at Kanha – an Enriching Experience

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Although title talks about meditation, this blog I am sharing is about my recent experience with mass meditation and the wonderful things I discovered in the process. Beginning of My Spiritual Journey Before starting with actual trip details, let me share you some information about how my spiritual journey started. Group of us got introduced to heart fullness meditation also known as “ SahajMarg ” about two years back. Preceptor was kind enough to come to our complex once or twice a week to help us go through each sitting. Initially we all started with not much in mind and just to check what is meditation and hoping it will calm down some turmoil due to current life style of ours. Slowly we all started noticing that we are able to sit for as long as half an hour, and that half an hour of stillness started helping us unknowingly in little things we do. We started looking forward to every week’s meditation and would never miss a single siting unless really required to. One da
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Trip to Himachal Peaks - a summer sojourn

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Trip to Himachal P eaks - a summer sojourn We started on sat April 27-2013 took flight from Bangalore to Chandigarh. Morning flight at 11 which had connection at Delhi reached Chandigarh by 5pm that day. After a long journey we were delighted to experience pleasant weather at Chandigarh. Chandigarh has a small airport can be compared with Pune airport. Since we were four families total 13 (8 adults + 5 kids) of us we had booked two Innovas for our Himalayan journey ahead, which was going to be for next six days. As we came out of airport our respective drivers were waiting for us. That day we were to go straight to Shimla spend night there and head forward for next destination- Sarahan. We refreshed ourselves with lovely tea coffee and biscuits at airport canteen, as we did not to want to waste time and wanted to start for Shimla instead. Road was wide and had less traffic, within half an hour we were on NH-22 heading to Shimla. One small point which one of driver missed is,
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