“Intense practice will begin? Isn’t it intense enough already? These two breathing exercises are quite tiring.”
“You think those two are tiring Mosi? You still have seen nothing. The more chakras you awaken the harder the practice becomes and the longer it will take as well.”
“I guessed as much. If this is only to prepare and get our bodies used to this; then this should be something like level 0, right?”
“You are right on the mark Teo, very good! So after doing all that and eating some fruit we’ll go to the garden outside and rest there for a while. While we rest we’ll try to connect with nature, we’ll feel our surroundings and breathe as deeply as we can. After some time has passed and the fruit is no longer in the way we’ll spend a good long while practicing yoga.”
“Practicing yoga? Neither of us has ever done something like that.”
“Don’t worry Mosi, your grandma here is an expert and will guide both of you through all of it. Our main objective is to communicate with the sun through our postures and receive the sun’s energy as it comes out. After we’ve paid our respects to the sun and received it’s blessing and energy we’ll practice some equilibrium postures to connect with our inner self.”
Elisa had regained the energy she had used during the day giving Mosi and Teo a general overview of the world’s situation. Although she was tired she didn’t feel cold inside any longer.
“So, any doubts about our itinerary for tomorrow morning?”
“I don’t have any.”
“No grandma! Tomorrow sounds fun!”
“Well then that’s it for today. I hope both of you have a good night.”
Everybody said their goodbyes, hugs and kisses for everyone and the three of them went to their own rooms. Both Mosi and Teo had plenty of dreams throughout the night. Dreams of beasts, rays of light, and smoky shadows. They didn’t know that they were dreaming the exact same thing. Dream sharing or dream connection only happens when the individuals have a very tight connection between themselves.
The next morning Mosi woke up a little before 4 a.m. as usual. He decided it would be best if he woke Teo up since his little brother wasn’t used to waking up so early. Although since it was still before the time their grandma had said he could let Teo sleep for a little bit longer.
Mosi went to the bathroom and cleaned his tongue like he was taught yesterday. He was utterly amazed by the paste that stuck to the “U” he was using. He scraped his tongue the seven times their grandma told them to and couldn’t believe that all seven times a dirty and slightly disgusting substance came out.
He then went to the kitchen to put some water to boil on the kettle. He couldn’t stop thinking about the paste he was scraping off his tongue. Was that substance there every morning? How come he had never noticed? Did he just swallow it again every day when he didn’t remove it like he did today?
When the water was he ready he served half a glass of boiling water and the other glass with room temperature water. He waited for it to cool down a bit and then drank it. He found it very disagreeable but since it was to be his new routine he knew he just had to get used to it.
After drinking his first glass of hot water he went to Teo’s room and woke him up. Teo was sleepy but very excited since today was going to be their first day in their voyage to become “main characters” like in the novels he read all the time.
Mosi watched while Teo scraped his tongue and after he did it a couple a times told him he would go prepare the hot water.
Teo finished cleansing his tongue and then washed his teeth without toothpaste. His grandma had told him he could do that if he wished or if he felt dirty. However he shouldn’t use any toothpaste before drinking both his glasses of hot water at least.
When Teo arrived at the kitchen Mosi already had two glasses, one with crystal clear water and the other with half a lemon and some honey.
“That’s your first glass. I’m already on the second one. Hurry up and drink it before it gets colder.”
Teo grabbed his glass and drank it quickly. “It’s hot! My tongue!”
“Careful now, don’t burn yourself.”
“It’s like drinking soup with no flavor. It’s weird but not that bad.”
“It is isn’t it? I thought more or less the same thing. I guess we’ll just have to get used to this from now on. At least this one with lemon is a bit better. It’s like warm lemonade not to sweet but the little bit of honey makes it very nice.”
“I’m done with the first one. Should I drink the second one right away?”
“Well, I rested a couple of minutes between the first and second one. You want the lemon one right now? We have time, I don’t think you need to hurry.”
“Then I’ll wait for a bit. I feel my whole body getting warmer. It’s a very weird feeling but I guess this must be one the points of drinking this hot water early in the morning.”
“I felt that too! It’s like it’s extending all throughout the body. It starts in the mouth all the way to the stomach and it spreads to the whole body from there.”
“Where are we going to do the pranayamas brother? We’ll do them together? Or separately?”
“I think we could do them together? That way we can each watch out for the other one and make sure we are doing them correctly. How do you want to do them?”
“I think it’s better if we do them alone. I’ve got a feeling that this kind of training should be private and personal.”
While they were talking Mosi was preparing Teo’s second glass of water. A little bit of honey, then some boiling water, mixed it up and then room temperature water and last came the other half lemon that was left from when he prepared his own.
“Well if you say so they we can each do the pranayamas in our own room. How does that sound?”
“Yes let’s try that.”
“Well then drink up your second glass of water and lets go do the pranayamas in our rooms.”
This time Teo drank it more slowly savoring the feeling of the warm water entering his body. He also enjoyed it much more since it actually tasted like something. It was quite nice even if it was a hot lemonade. Much better than simple hot water with nothing else added.
“There! Done! This was was much better!”
“Well you can go to back to your room and start the exercises then. I’ll wash everything before going to mine.”