my stomach probs of my first week in Mysore were almost a memory...but it went from one extreme to another just before my practise on Monday, April 20th. I keep adding in the days as I'm kind of losing track of the day of the week and the date, being disconnected from the daily news and plugged in to talking about yoga, living well, karma, dharma...so the date is kind of in the background. So, before my practise, the drought caused by my stomach being good again, was broken and I had the lightest practise that I've had so far - including my first attempt at Pasasana in the second series. A historically tough posture for me, I was able to bind the posture on both sides, but I was way up on my toes, so balance was near impossible. Saraswati gave me a good, quick, strong adjustment into it...then told me to take Krounchasana in two days time (today). So I took Krounchasana today.
Alia's for breakfast next where I met up with Hanuman and Simone...Simone's laptop was exhibiting some strange behaviour, so, given I've told everyone I work in IT, I took to some computer fixing for Simone, unsuccessfully trying to figure out why the Toshiba light on her machine wasn't working.
Ben and I then took the table at the back underneath the coconut trees. It's the table farthest east so it's in the shade the longest. Hanuman and Simone joined us to get out of the sun...then Lee, then Hanuman and Simone left...then I described some business ideas to Ben and Lee. Breakfast is the perfect forum to postulate and muse on ideas, dreams, ambitions...to prove this point, we were still chatting when Hanuman came back with his friend Ram...by which time it was near midday and time to move on
I'd been keen to work on some yoga sutra chanting, Lee was keen to further his chanting and some philosophy, so, we thought we'd kick off maybe a daily session. First, off to the Green Leaf for some food, after we'd found out that Shiva's kitchen was open between 1 and 2, so we'd missed it.
Shiva recommended the Green Leaf, so Natalie, Elizabeth Lee and I took off there...food was certainly filling...but a little stodgy for me...
now, chanting? nope, shopping at a couple of garage stalls..Natalie ended up with some really nice tops...Lee ended up with an Indian/ Afghani camel trader combo which suited him really well...Elizabeth and I were interested onlookers...sometimes not so interested :)
now, chanting? nope, off to Anu's for smoothies...now, chanting...nope, absolutely stuffed!
April 21st - yep, got some chanting in...after a good practise then I ran into Alex, a girl from Malaysia, who's arrived in the last week, off to get some coffee...I too was interested in some coffee, so we shared a large at Alia's, along with Lee, who added some to his daily large chai, served in the same cup. The combo of coffee and chai? - a dirty chai, apparently quite big in Mexico?
I'd been struggling with sleep, ever since the day I had paan, coffee, a big pot of tea and a couple of bars of chocolate in the evening, so i flaked for about an hour, rebounded in time to get stuck into some banana bread with peanut butter, purchased the day before from the guys sitting across from the shala...then get invited to lunch at Aunty's in Lakshmipuram...having heard lunch there was good, i was in...off to the smallest eating place - see pic - off a small road, down a narrow laneway, in the smallest eating room - 7 of us tucked around this table, getting stuck into the best chapati i've had so far...and some really nice, fresh food
after some ice cream and smoothies...and shopping for khichiri ingredients...i made it back to Lee's...for some chanting - first 10 sutras in all, but it's a start :)
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