Led practice

Today's led practice was really really cool. It's fast! At first I had trouble keeping the breath going because of the pace, but I soon understood that the count wasn't probably the breath count, but just the count. Maybe you do just have 2 breaths in the posture, but that's cool. He fell asleep a few times so it was a suprise at times! In Urdhva Dhanurasana he counted 1....2....3....4 ... .... .... .... ... 1...2...3...4...5. And after 3 backbends he said "von more". So we ended up doing 4, my arms were shaking. He also says "loose your feet", which means "point your feet". I enjoyed it, it was a real treat. The hug at the end and the kiss and the wonderful smile rounds it off so nicely I will miss that loads! It sends you outside feeling like this is a good world. And then the coconut man smiles too :)

I got the shakes after headstand, my teeth were chattering even. I haven't been drinking enough, it's dehydration apparently. I'm on the water today, lots of it. It's not too bad now.

I went to Tina's for a cooking lesson, yes you read right, a cooking lesson. I was hoping she might be able to work miricales and enable me to cook something which doesn't make people feel like they have to be polite about it. I learnt a few things and had an great meal afterwards. Her english is better than mine by far.

Ganesh gave us some directions to record shops in the area and a list of cool indian artists from the 60's till today. We're going on a mission tomorrow (with Violetta), she loves tunes as well which is great. We're at Anu's listening to tunes on the laptops and emailing, blogging and all that good stuff. It's sad though because today a worker was hit by power lines that fell on him, so the Gokulam saftey measure is to turn off the power in the area. It came on for a bit and then switched off again. Now it seems to be back.

Yesterday I went with Ahu to the city and got Indian sweets and visited the market. It was refreshing to get out and about and we had a good time. We had peppermint tea and tasted the sweets. Yuk, not my thing! Spicy and sweet, curry spicy. Not again.

I went to Meena's to see her silverware, she sat me in her office in her house and got out tubs and tubs and tubs of bracelets, toe rings, earings, I couldn't get away, this went on for 1.5hrs! And she made me a cup of vile tea, the same that I had had at Anu's. Anu gave me another cup this morning. The good news is that it has worked my throat is much better. The ladies of Mysore have looked after me very well.

I learnt something today from Tina, she says that Saraswati the goddess of knowledge is on your tongue for a very short time once a day so you must be careful what you say. She says for example you could say "I wish that man would just go away" and the next day he's dead.

I miss Mister R a lot and I miss all you people back home, but at the same time I am well in Mysore. I'm not ecstatic, excited or low or overwhelmed, or anything I'm just well.

I think I will sign up for Kumar's ayurvedic massage course, it's very intensive and you cover so much in 14 days. I've always wanted to do that so it seems like a good idea.

Tune of the Day: "Loopdreams" - AIM