Ashram life - week 3
Today I am tired and hungry and thereby pissed off. Another morning of waking up at 5am. Mostly for the last 2 weeks this fact hasn't really been bothering me, but I just needed a lie in today. I have been sooooooooooooooo mega busy with the physical classes, teaching, doing exams and doing suryanamaskars (sun salutations and 108 to be precise. 108 is an auspicious number and no doubt I am going to be blessed with beautiful children or something of the like as my just reward), that there just isn't a moment to not do anything, plus the heat is totally oppressive. So what's been happening this week:
- more singing and omming
- less food eating (breakfast is getting so dire that I've stopped eating it. Just isn't worth while)
- more difficult yoga - balancing your whole body weight on only your elbows perhaps? I have the bruises to prove it. Plus, did you know that I can do a headstand in the middle of the room all by myself now. I'm proud of this fact.
- people revealing their more freaky sides. For example: Star boy - who's been to a star, naturally; oh and he can see auras and hear plants sing. Marbles - because we are all the same energy and therefore that means that you are the marble, you are the air, you are the person. Energy - who is growing on me to be fair, but has gone into over drive about how she has visions and she can see the energy that I have with other people on campus. J-ji - a late thirty something who is as cool as they come, but has been searching for herself for the last EIGHT years and has nothing to show for it....she's not even sure who she is. C - a really goodie-two-shoes who is driving me up the wall! Curls - who carries a crystal ball with him wherever he goes, including doing the washing up. There are soooooooooooooo many 'characters' (as my granny used to call folk that she thought were weird and she didn't like) here I can hardly get into details. But buy me a coffee when I get home and the stories are all yours!
- Exams! yikes....3 written, 4 physical and 2 teaching....when does it end?
- Oh! how could I have forgotten. I did Vaman this week which means that you drink as much salty water as you can bear and then you vomit it up in a projectile clear stream. Sandeep-ji even complimented me on my vomiting technique. Nice. I have video just in case you don't believe that a group of crazy Westerners gathered in a field and then vomited together.
- And while I'm on the salt water bandwagon...I let someone pour melted butter up my nose so that it made it 'wet' and then in the morning I poured salty water AGAIN up my nose to perform the cleansing technique that is known as Neti. Delightful.
- A few excellent lectures that totally resonated with me and made me think it was all worth while and I was learning things....I'm a changed woman and I met my Guru (dispeller of darkness) etc.......
- only to have it ruined by the bloody course leaders. They truly need to get a course in tact!
And, there's bound to be more...but seeing as I am on a curfew time schedule to get back to the ashram, I can't write much more. Only 10 days to go.....bring on the Scottish summer ;)
posted by Yogini @ 8:38 am
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2 Comments:
Oh my GOD you are living a film. I guess we now know where the rich crazies spend their days. suppose as long as they're not hurting others, they can babble about clashing auras all they want. It seems they are all a bit obtuse, though - there's only so far a metaphor can go, and calling yourself Energy or Marbles is laughable. Naming yourself Voldemort or Judas or something would shake things up a bit.
See you VERY soon!!!XXXX
Isla, I read your blog out loud to Amandio too and we both had a great laugh.. at your expense, I know.. but this experience is something you will NEVER forget! Thanks for the entertaining read. You'll have to fill me in on all the therapies and what you were able to take from it all when you return to the real world. Miss you
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