Samasthiti

The group browsing through our manuals and schedules on our first day, we had 28 more days to go! Sigh. The lovely walkway from the main reception area to Lotus  Flower Rangoli on our first day Me, doing what i do best, taking a million notes Very delayed this post. Wonder if I'll remember all that goodness at Locavore! Mie and I spent 3 hours eating and talking, the food was exquisite. The restaurant had an open kitchen, so you could see the chefs and their team work. The staff was so attentive and so knowledgeable about the food they served, not as if they were reading out a menu, but literally like they'd prepared it themselves as they told us what each dish had. So lovely the whole experience. My favorite thing was this oxtail dish, that had the exact same flavours as my grandmom's mutton curry and it transported me back in time. Then there was this tomato sorbet dish, with clear tomato soup. I never take pictures of my food, but Mie took load...

The lotus in the pond right outside our shaala. That's the title of the blog, simply because that's the mood I was in the last few days. In some way we all were. It doesn't really make sense since it was exam week and we were supposed to be freaking out. But Emily had refused to call them 'exams', so in our heads we were very relaxed about it as well. On Tuesday, our last day off before we got done, i woke up really late, because i'd slept really late. carried my notes and notebook and handouts and laptop down to the breakfast area. Made myself a lovely cup of chai in my mug and sat down to work. I knew I was doing Yin. But unlike the last time around, my theme wasn't flowing to me. I knew the asanas i wanted to do. I was definitely putting my group through anahatasana, that painful crazy little asana that i makes me winch every time i come into it (still), that was definitely in there. Then there was child's pose, of course, how is any yin clas...

गणेशा  Yes. And I can not believe it. I'm here in Singapore. Sitting on my couch. After a day's work and a yoga class. And I'm dazed. Overwhelmed by all these shiny lights. Still adjusting, it's so hard, only because a huge part of me doesn't want to adjust to this 'reality'. So since I'm at the end, I 'll have to talk about the last week in reverse. My friend Andrea was here for a day. She arrived really late on Friday night, it was Saturday early morning rather. I had class on Saturday, so she went and did an art class (her painting is beautiful) and we had dinner at this beautiful place : Fair Warung Bale , which is a actually run by a youth foundation and the food was lovely, we treated ourselves to two lovely cheesecakes at Anomali after that. And walked back slowly enjoying the streets of Ubud. She left at 8 AM on Sunday and I said bye to her before heading out to class at 6. On Sunday, we did a practice teaching session, where all 30 ...