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...

13.8.2008 Planting trees… It's been raining for the past few days so we spent most of our time indoors, reading, knitting, napping, talking.... Both Takako and Sharon are very good at being still, not doing anything but being happy about it. We had a conversation yesterday about our differences and how I found it hard not to do anything. But Sharon inspired me in the way that she can just watch the clouds go by in the sky and be very still and silent. Doing n...

7.8.2008 For every old sock there is an old shoe… I realise how little I have been writing this week, even though my mind has been pretty busy. Yet today some things have shifted and I feel a lot lighter after a few long conversations I have had with John and Lucy. I also found more strength and faith in the yoga today during John's class. His voice is so deeply engraved in my heart now that I feel that his place in my life has grown a lot bigger. And simply ...