Day 5

Nice nice nice day...

Beautiful meditation this morning. I went through the whole mandala, and had a powerful bhakti celebration. The class was beautiful this morning, starting with a long long repetition of mandala namaskar 1, which is a beautiful circular salutation, with a lot of deep hip opening and circular motion throughout. We then moved into a beautiful - though short flow - leading up to dragonfly. I almost managed it but we were too rushed to spend too much time on this. We then entered our daily back-bend sadhana, which was so great. Michael, an assistant, helped me out and for the first time, I FELT MY WHEEL! Oh my god, he got my arms in the right closed in position, and my legs close in, heels down. What sretch on the quads. It was beautiful. We did this twice. Beautiful closure to the Sadhana, as usual, with Shiva's amazing words. She cracked us up again today, playing the police and lenny kravitz during the namaskar, as we were riding the crazy waves of our flow. Loved it.

The afternoon was very interesting with a conference with a university scholar, who wrote 'the Triadic Heart of Shiva'. So very interesting to hear personal experiences and educated views on meditation, life management and happiness. Amazing guy!

After that, we rushed into the teacher lab, which was ok though we were in the sun and i was cooking totally. I am now officially roasted on top of the head, shoulders, chest and face :)

I cut this short as I had to attend Seane's Corn class, which I am so grateful for. She just started teaching at the Sacred Movement, where we have most of our sessions, and I bought a pass for 50 dollars, which allows me access to all classes and the spa. Her class was nice. Clean, tough, hard work. A lot of core, a lot of hips (as if I had not had enough) and looooooong holds. Oh my god, we were all puffing and huffing. Was great though. I enjoyed it. We finished we that cool variation of cow face, lying down. We also did prasaritta from lunge with cow face variation. Nice good work. I spoke to her after class and she is an adorable person.

After that, I went to buy (healthy) grocery, rushed home and ATE FINALLY!!!!!

Now in bed, ready to drift into the wave of the night.

Take care all.

YI