Singer, spiritual savant and yoga practitioner – Raageshwari Loomba is all of the aforesaid, who for the last five months has been practicing a relatively unexplored form of yoga, which is revving up her insides. “In these last few months I’ve been feeling increased vigour, dynamic energy and an alignment of my chakras (energy centres) that I’ve never quite experienced before,” she says.
It’s a practice that she wants to share as far and wide as possible. “It’s not a new form of yoga, it’s more than 2,500 years old,” she clarifies of her new exercise passion.
Called the ancient Tibetan rites, it’s a series of yogic postures adopted by Buddhist monks of yore which has been made contemporary by the DVD she’s just released on it. “The body of yoga is wide and what the Tibetan monks did was to distil its essence in a set of easy-to-perform exercises that practically anybody can execute. It takes me six minutes every morning to perform and balances one’s body, mind and emotions into a synergetic whole.”
However, this is just a part of the healthy lifestyle that the singer observes as a whole. She also eats healthy (“lots of fruits and vegetables every day), meditates and is aiming to do her best work as a singer yet with the upcoming release of her Sufi album which has a spiritual basis in her life.
“I believe that my body is a temple and that the mind and the body have an inseparable connection.” No wonder she’s smiling most of the time when one meets her and has a life state that almost touches the skies.
