28.01.2008 Last Days in Kovalam Its amazing how fast my trip is going, yet another chapter is about to close. As I sat down for breakfast at german bakery this morning and got staring out to the ocean I had a moment of reflection on all that happened in the past 7 weeks in Kovalam. All the friends who were here, all the great moments and experiences...And with the yoga being so intense (particularly this morning as I was given 2 new postures and turned into a l...

24.01.2008 Ayurveda Treatments I am yet to decide what exactly I think of these treatments, I love and hate it at the same time. I call it the "sweet pain" and "pleasurable torture"… Kerala is very famous for its ayurvedic treatments and all along the coast it is absolutely full of ayurvedic resorts in beautiful settings offering treatment packages with special food, Kerala huts for people to stay in and the promise of clear beaches a...

18.01.2007 Ooooh, Michael is here! Everyone in the small yoga community in Kovalam is talking about the latest addition to the group, Michael. well as some of us know and recognise from the boasted ego last year, its not Michael but in fact Michael Gannon. Already there were a group of fresh astangis gathered outside the shala, sitting and watching Michael in amazement, admiring him, saying how skinny he looks and how graceful he is in his practice. These are...

16.01.2008 Palmistry As India is pretty famous for its palmistry a group of us went to get our palms reads today with the recommendation of our Ayurveda doctor Unni, who knows someone very good at what he does and lives in town. So I trooped up Maja, Denis and Ruth for an appointment at 3pm. After 30-40min drive into a posh end of the town we arrived at Mr Adarsh's house and he asked us to sit on the porch in the front of the house whilst he would take us one...

15.01.2008 Don't expect the expected I turely have been very lazy with my blog entries, so many funny moments have happened as well as some sad ones over the last week. I hit a bottom low on Saturday morning when I felt homesick for the first time. Most of my close friends whom I have been meeting here in Kovalam for the past 3 years began to return home. In a big and close group of say 8-9 people perhaps 6-7 of them left in a space of two days. Some of it was ...