Neti , or nose cleansing, can be done daily on the course. When you express yourself in music, song and dance it can release energy and cleanse your emotions. We play music together, sing native songs from America, Arabia, or India and dance according to Sufi or African traditions or in free movements. Through these different dances you develop your capacity to communicate without words, and you experience a feeling of fellowship with others. To most people the silence comes as a surprising relief.
Silence increases the inner awareness and the openness towards the surroundings.
The mind becomes finely tuned and the learning of yoga and especially meditation is enhanced. Silence over a longer period of time removes tensions particularly from the brain and face. Apart from the days when we are totally silent, we ask that you are always silent in the yoga hall , no matter when you enter it, and also during the meals in the dining hall. Only during the very last days does it become apparent to many what we are actually doing and how it works. We then communicate about the process that we have experienced - and deal with any problems, that haven't already sorted themselves out.