Wow…how time flies here in India! I loose track of what day it is! It has sure been an eventful few weeks!!!! Some of the highlights:  Monkeys monkeys monkeys everywhere,  I went to Moosurie (A town in the Himalayas over 2,000 km high and very beautiful!)  I visited the Beatles ashram (where the Beatles stayed back in the day to meditate),  I meditated at the Osho Ashram (active meditation: we danced around like crazy, jumping around like monke...

Another blog entry with out photos :( Lets see...I have been trying to find an alternative yoga course to follow along side my yoga teacher training course so that I learn as much as possible. The training course I am signed up for now is not as physical as I had hoped for. The graduated students said that they felt that this course would not be enough to prepare someone to teach a yoga course. My course consists of a lot of chanting, breathing and meditation t...

Just by talking to everyone about yoga, i am finding out that there is so much more to yoga besides body positions which the western world seems to only be interested in. The Eastern way of yoga is the true yoga which incorporates much more than just basic body possitions but also spirituality and enlightnment. Because I have not practiced much yoga, I decided to take the day to learn more about the theory and purpose of yoga. Swami gave me a few books that will...

Just by talking to everyone about yoga, i am finding out that there is so much more to yoga besides body positions which the western world seems to only be interested in. The Eastern way of yoga is the true yoga which incorporates much more than just basic body possitions but also spirituality and enlightnment. Because I have not practiced much yoga, I decided to take the day to learn more about the theory and purpose of yoga. Swami gave me a few books that will...

Day 4 Today I woke up to monkeys on my balcony making noise and jumping around. Shortly after noticing the monkey sitting staring at me on my window sill, my doorbell rang. Still not fully awake, I had to show two new students around and find a room for them since Swami (our yoga instructor) was gone for the weekend. No big deal…glad to help  I took a bucket shower this morning. Because there is no shower, they fill a bucket with hot and cold water adjusted...