all it's cracked up to be...

the highlight of the day - an "alignment" with Dae, a Hawaiin, Korean girl who has a unique body work method, involving chiropracty, martial arts, yoga, cranio-facial...Lee was the first on the mat, I took a pic of Dae about to mount an assault on Lee...Dae's a really strong gal and the work was pretty deep...to start there was some stretching into the lower back to prepare the body for what was to come...then a kind of wrestle hold on each shoulder, kind of pulling the arm out, extending the muscles around the clavicle...some spinal adjustment and a big twist, arms crossed, one leg bent at the knee. I got some really nice pops going on...

we had late lunch at Tina's, then a dvd and sweets session...the sweets were a bit too much though, within an hour I was coming down off a massive sugar high...which carried over into practise the next day.

Lee's got firm ideas about diet, having gone primal just before he reached Mysore...i'm also starting to notice the effects as well, with the high carb food not really feeling grounded, without enough protein and iron, among other essential nutrients

before all this was breakfast at Joseph's house. Joseph came to practise with Guruji 15 years ago...and is still here. Joseph's spent time organising travel for Guruji's family on a lot of his touring round the world.

Joseph's breakfast spread included dosas, a massive fruit salad, various chutneys and curd...and muesli..

this was after i'd been to Om Cafe (at Alia's) for a cup of coffee, where Natalie and Lee turned up after an ill fated scooter riding lesson for Nat...whereby one of her big toes scraped along the road for a bit...they showed up at Om Cafe and Javier took to the first aid brilliantly...couple of days later and Nat's toe's looking good. Not a helpful injury for the practise though

yesterday (Thursday, April 23rd), there was supposed to be a mass migration to Ooty...but there was a freeze on crossing the Tamil Nadu border, we think because of the elections going on...so, the Ooty crew hung around and we went to the Green Hotel in the arvo, for some protein, mainly in the form of fish...and for a cold beer. Haven't worked out how to position my pics in the text, so i think the beer pic is up at the top???