Impressions on a Devapath meditation group, february 2011

Last week I had a meeting with Anand Devapath, an Osho disciple and therapist, who came to Romania for a couple of days, invited by Zorba Buddha, namely Veet Cristian, our Romanian guy who organizes Osho meditation group, among other things…

There were three different events, in a five days period:  an oceanic breathing session, at Casa Satya;  an evening just for men, somewhere else, I don’t say where, a very cool place, and a weekend (from Friday evening till Sunday evening), centered again on oceanic breathing.

So, well?

What should I start with?...let’s start with the first evening, at Satya. Devapath introduced himself, said a few things about his life, how did he arrived to Osho, what means his sannyas name, what it is important to work with the breathing…Looking at him, I realized at some point that I had my eyes glued on him. Wow, how weird! I’m usually more acustic, I don’t really need to look the man in the eye when he speaks to me, especially when they don’t say something through them…

But,  let’s get back. Devapath speaks a lot, my friend.  Compared to Bodhiray (deh, I can’t help to compare them…), he is like a tittle-tattler, yakety-yakety-ya. But he is very expressive. And he has that move from the eyebrows…mmm. I’ll tell you later where did he got it from J. The thing is…he tickles you somewhere with it.

Yes, so Devapath is more like fire, wild, alive, sometimes explosive. Bodhiray was more like  water, silent, deep,  so deep that you can drown in it, and still crystal clear.

So Wednesday was an evening of  storytelling, laughter and oceanic breathing.  For me it wasn’t so intense, but I felt I could absorb more energy than other times.

The weekend workshop started somehow shy, but it ended in loudly laughter. Each day we had a breathing session, which I liked very much, because I think that the breathing work is essential in spiritual area.  As Osho also says, you can drop anything else, but not the breathing work.

And I also liked the flowing way of leading the group and the people, from Devapath.  I don’t know where he got this from :), probably from Osho, what I know is that thing were connected to one another very well, which is really strange. Because is clear that those were not ad-hoc created exercises, but they fitted very well in the energy of the group at some point. For example, in the first evening, if I remember right, we did some exercises in which you were supposed to breathe deeply, to connect the earth and the sky, and then he told us just to lie down on the ground and to start to breathe with the mouth slightly open….So natural…

Or, in another session, after we lied down on the floor, he told us to move our legs and arms as if we were running a bicycle. Faster and faster and….faster! And then, continue to breathe with the mouth slightly open…

But what I won’t forget for certain is how he lead the last breathing session… I remember that at some point, during the session, he says: "Well, when your mother and father will ask you: 'What have you learned in this group?', you'll say, 'A, nothin' mamma, just laughter, just to enjoy myself'..'And what else have you learned in this group?' 'Oh, I don't even dare to say the word...I've learned to be sexy! I've learned to move my pelvis'..." Oioioi :)))))))

So, thank you Devapath! A big, big thank you!

PS. Oh, I had almost forgot.  That movement from the eyebrows he “stoled” it from Jack Nickolson.  Because he also likes to be a little mean, sometimes.