Week 2 Day 2!! Today I woke after having some very lucid dreams which is a nice change for me - I like to dream and I believe dreams help us to make meaning of our daily reality. Today I decided to go down a bit earlier for meditation and glad I did as today was a little harder to keep my focus and the extra time allowed me to go a bit deeper. I had a lot on my mind today with the exciting news of my scholarship for The Hridaya Hatha Centre in Mazunte and a couple of nice emails and business ideas from my Mother and sister. I realize that this act of letting go of the past and not attaching ourselfs to things is a daily practice and I should embrace that just like I am embrace the yoga postures. Our teacher Jennifer was glowing today and she really helped pull my energy up - when I felt tired or without drive I just needed to hear her words or see her eyes and I instantly felt energized. A very different thing about our yoga practice is that it is done with our eyes closed which enables us to focus on our inner awareness and not be distracted by others and our over excited sense of sight. Today's postures and warm-up felt completely new and challenging to me showing that really every day our body is new and different and so mechanical program can not work - we must recognize we can not plan and take each day as we feel. I continue to learn more and more about myself here and I can only be thankful for that. The lecture today was super interesting and we looked at non-violence and how many different ways we as humans creat violence towards ourself and others. The conversations lead to group discussions and it was really interesting to hear others perspectives. At the end of the lecture I went and thanked Jennifer as I know she is a big part of the reason I got the scholarship to the school in Mazunte both through her contact with the school but more through her belief and love of what she does which has had a profound effect on me. A few of us then had to head off straight away to Wednesdays Cacao ceremony with Keith the Chocolate Shaman. Today there was an interesting bunch of people at the ceremony and although there was a lot of the same things covered as on Sundays ceremony it was still very interesting and I had some enlightening insights. I drank the whole cup of cacao today and it allowed me to come to a very peaceful place quickly but like Sunday I did feel a little woozy in my stomach. Laura a girl I was sitting next to was going through a lot of heavy stuff and I found it very difficult to concentrate and in the end we held hands and it was at this point I realized it was actually me going through things aswell and we were both able to release and let go of things from our pasts. The ceremony ended at 4:30pm today but myself, Cameron and Laura had offered to help bag cacao tonight in exchange for the ceremony so after a quick dash home in the rain for an early dinner we were back to learn the art of bagging cacao. There wasn't much to it but it certainly took concentration and basically we just scooped pound lots of warm cacao bitter into bags for a few hours. Time was irrelevant and with a really nice group of people, some nice music and helping genuine people it didn't seem like work at all. By the time we finished I was very tired and thankfully to find my bed at the end of the night.

OBSERVATIONS:
- Everyday a new body
- Cacao Ceremony
- Work/trade - Bagging Cacao