27.8.2008 The only way out is IN! John opened today's practise after receiving an email from Prem with the title of Prem's book "The only way Out is In". How true that with a seeking, grasping mind we search for things on the outside and yet the core of the desire and the suffering is on the inside. But as well as expressing the philosophical side, John brought it to the yoga mat, in to the experience. After all the yoga mat is the mirror where we s...

23.8.2008 Happy feet and happy days! I woke up in the middle of my sleep with pure joy and happiness. I tried to remember my dreams, it was a mixture of being partly in Port Macquarie with Bart, Mandy and Denis but at the same time in Tokyo…And trying to figure out where to go for a yoga class and then being in an office with a shopping mall and visiting the toilet many times (I guess that was a signal that I wanted to go to toilet in reality) and interacting...

21.8.2008 Can we count the number of stars in the sky? I just walked out of my room at 9.30pm to watch the clear night sky with beaming stars scattered, some hanging out together in constellations, some hanging out alone and the milky way…I wonder when I will be able to see a sky like this in London again? As I was taken back by its beauty it also gave me time to reflect back on the day and be grateful for the home John and Lucy have created for their studen...

19.8.2008 Everyone wants to move forward… For the past few days when I join John in the yoga room at 6am to meditate I find him sitting with his notebook and using the time and space to create, to generate ideas. Last night I read a beautiful passage in my book about Stillness and wrote down a few inspiration points for john to read this morning. It was about what we can find in stillness and how in order to find ourselves we really need to lose ourselves, ge...

15.8.2008 Synchronicity…A cosmic game! I have been listening to Deepak Chopra's audio books as I've been knitting in the evenings. It just shows that how we take some things for granted or on a positive note we need certain things in our lives when we are ready to receive them. Anyway I had these audio books on my laptop since December 2007 when Jocke gave them to me in Kovalam and although I listened to one or two when I was in Mysore I never sat still to re...