10/5/2008 A quiet day! It's a saturday, and we all started by sleeping in, then a leisurely breakfast. Everyone headed into town but Jamie and I stayed behind. He had to chop wood anyway, and do some weed yanking (this is so much fun, thats why I call it yanking!). I went for a long walk, then sitting under tree and reading the book Lawrence gave me. I then watched a Bollywood movie. For some reason India feels like so far away, but I can remember everything cl...

9.5.2008 What to write now? The first week is over and my body is feeling it. John got us to do a full vinyasa class this morning, as he says "one breath, one body, one mind, one consciousness". Dorris and Debi were observing the class and said that it was amazing to watch us move in such synchrinicity (hard one to spell). We were sweating, slipping, sliding, the windows were all steemed up but John gave us such courage and the energy in the room was ...

7.5.2008 Time-less and space-less So many things happen in a day that by the time I've sat in front of the computer I lose count of everything I wanted to write. As John stretches our bodies and emotions, swami is definately stretching our minds. All started with a good practise this morning. I realised that for years I had completely misunderstood astanga yoga, the true system, the vinyasa, the counts and the reason behind it. As John has already challenged ...

6.5.2008 Mind f***ing stuff... Not only are we getting to learn to teach yoga but actually learning the true essence of yoga. the philosophy is absolutely amazing, swami Nityamuktananda Saraswati is so knowledgeable (even though we know that knowledge is ignorance). Only today she introduced us to the layers of the mind and pure consciousness...and cosmic mind. Once again its an absolute realisation that we are all connected. She's given the basic example of dr...

5.5.2008 Storm before calmness It was like entering to the the big brother house yesterday. there are 10 of us doing Jihn's teacher training and we all got together yesterday evening. It was a weird experience, so many conversations, people asking same things "where are you from, what is your name" bla bla bla..and today has been slightly stressful as people are trying to settle in and cope with not only the course but cleaning, cooking, being in each...