The holy city of Rishikesh celebrated Durga Puja during the first week of my yoga course...this meant that women were dressed in even more beautiful and rich colors than normal, people were playing more music in the street and praying to the statues of their gods and goddesses, AND... our teachers were giving us sweets of fruits and pastries in the morning after lecture.
My last two weeks make me feel like I live here. The routine is: morning yoga practice and introduction of a new asana or position, break during the afternoon during which I either do massage exchanges with a friend from my Thai course, go to the Ganga beach or just relax, afternoon practice and then lecture until who knows when. Busy, busy learning the keys to my state of samadhi, or self realization, otherwise known as enlightenment.
In the past few weeks, I have been doing morning purification techniques like scrubbing my mouth with salt after using a tongue scraper, clearing my sinuses with a netty pot and recently drinking a liter of water to regurgitate it out after. There are more techniques to come and I am grateful to be healthy and energized... I was sick with the initial start of the course and have hung in there and have been very grateful for the full return of my health as of one week. Tomorrow, we have all paired up to do intestinal cleanses.
Animals are fascinating here. A classmate ushered me over one day to see a newborn calf and told me that he watched a man come up to the cow and pull the calf straight out!! I saw a fresh calf on the ground in blood and plasma! was amazing!
The other day, while crossing the Ganga on the Laxman Jhula bridge with a bag of vegetables, a monkey made a swipe for it. I saw the Indian pedestrians moving away from me and then all of a sudden I was protecting myself from a monkey!!!!
Also, of the many cows and bulls wandering free and pooping in the streets (they are holy and so it there sh*t, hence the term, holy sh*t) one bull likes to headbutt walkers by. He has tapped me once in the leg and once in the bum, gently luckily, but he has good aim!
Been enjoying the course, the meditative aspects and the many focuses on opening my heart:) thinking of all my loved ones and sending you all good energy.
Photos to come eventually, here in Rishikesh, computers are slower and the shop owners don't want us to download. The past few days with the full moon came power outages, a big storm and the server down several times.
My last two weeks make me feel like I live here. The routine is: morning yoga practice and introduction of a new asana or position, break during the afternoon during which I either do massage exchanges with a friend from my Thai course, go to the Ganga beach or just relax, afternoon practice and then lecture until who knows when. Busy, busy learning the keys to my state of samadhi, or self realization, otherwise known as enlightenment.
In the past few weeks, I have been doing morning purification techniques like scrubbing my mouth with salt after using a tongue scraper, clearing my sinuses with a netty pot and recently drinking a liter of water to regurgitate it out after. There are more techniques to come and I am grateful to be healthy and energized... I was sick with the initial start of the course and have hung in there and have been very grateful for the full return of my health as of one week. Tomorrow, we have all paired up to do intestinal cleanses.
Animals are fascinating here. A classmate ushered me over one day to see a newborn calf and told me that he watched a man come up to the cow and pull the calf straight out!! I saw a fresh calf on the ground in blood and plasma! was amazing!
The other day, while crossing the Ganga on the Laxman Jhula bridge with a bag of vegetables, a monkey made a swipe for it. I saw the Indian pedestrians moving away from me and then all of a sudden I was protecting myself from a monkey!!!!
Also, of the many cows and bulls wandering free and pooping in the streets (they are holy and so it there sh*t, hence the term, holy sh*t) one bull likes to headbutt walkers by. He has tapped me once in the leg and once in the bum, gently luckily, but he has good aim!
Been enjoying the course, the meditative aspects and the many focuses on opening my heart:) thinking of all my loved ones and sending you all good energy.
Photos to come eventually, here in Rishikesh, computers are slower and the shop owners don't want us to download. The past few days with the full moon came power outages, a big storm and the server down several times.
I finally made it to the Ashram where the Beatles stayed! I arrived near sunset and received a personal tour, seeing their cone shaped rooms from the outside and experiencing a beautiful sunset from high up on the water building.
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