Come on, belive in people!

Why do people that are doing good in life, like achieving something hard, assume that people are jealous and envy you in a negative way, coz they might not be able to accomplish the same things? If you think like that, people will behave and act that way. But if you approach people with an attitude like you are someone who wants to inspire them insted, you will end up being overwhelmed with love and compassion. I know you think that there will always be people who criticise the people who do good, but its you who create them if you think they exist! People are good, if you just belive in them. Or do you have another way of looking at it?

Just some thoughts I have had while looking at facebook statuses.       

Over excited..

Me and Tea has gone a bit over excited about Saris. This is just a little bit of what we bought the other day. They are old Saris and cost  about 50-100 rupis each, thats like one Euro. I will bring them to a tailor and make them copy some of my pants, dresses, shirts and topps. I am really exited to see the finish result, if thats the case my tailor will be a busy man. I will post some pic if it ends up nice!

Spoiled girl

Its monday morning and mum left last night. The week gone by so fast, unbeliveble. It was her first time visiting India and just like its for everyone, it was a big shock in the beginning, but after a while she got used to the crazynuess and she said she started seeing the beauty insted of  focusing on the durt and bad things, coz there is so much beauty in this contry to enjoy and descover. Mum is such eazy person to hangout with and she never expected me to be the perfect host. She just enjoyed following me and Tea on our everyday lifestyle her in Mysore and its not a fancy or glamorous one, real basic life style. But we hand an amazing week. Alot of shooping and eating. We climed Chamondi hill, 1000 stepps, went to the Mysore palace and saw the light show all the turist stuff you should have done in Mysore. I am a very lucky to have a mum like her, that suports me in everything I decide do in life, spoiled girl!!!

AJay been sick this past week. So we went to the hospital and visit him. Mum thought it was intresting visiting an Inian hospital coz she is a nurse. The hopital is nothing like swedish hospitals but it was one of the better ones in this area, a little bit cleaner. AJay feels better and now he is back in the shala teaching ous. Makes such a diffrens. He makes my practice makes more sens and makes me keep puching to do better, so I am looking forward to this week, happy he is back and feels better.

We also had a photo shoot on Saturday coz the girl we live toghter with Justyna, needed models for her project. So on Satuday morning we walked around on the streets here in the neighbourhood and found diffrent cool loactions. We were very stiff from a hard past week and we dident really have a propper warm up either but we did our best. Mum had her camera and got some cool shoots to but the final results are just amazing. Will post a mix of photos from the photo shoot and I will post more from mum visit soon.

       

Last day with mum

Its late Saturday night and we just been out eating dinner and visit the Mysore palace. Its is mums last night here in Mysore. She will go back home to Sweden tomorrow night. I feel so wierd and sad, but we had a amazing week toghter, hard saying goodbye. The week went by so fast. I will write more about it later and put up more photos. Have to go to bed now coz tomorrow morning we will walk up the Charmondi hills early, and we were up early this morning coz of a photo shoot we did, I will put up more photos of that too, the photos looks really cool. So good night friends and family!  Here are some photos from today and tonight!

Shopping and chilling with mum!

Mum going crazy in Guculum store!

My new blue hat, coz I really do need one here in this heath!

                                                                    Yoga on the roof

                                                                    Swedish coffie

                                    
                                                                   Ritcha ride!
                      

Saturday in photos



Morning Coffie

Sun taning on the roof

Ragi Pancakes for breakfast

Tea at Anoci, with masla coffie and Strawberry tarte

Posing at Anoci garden

                                                    Is now flowining in the Indian traffic like a pro!




Making Ragi Pancakes with spinach, and tomato salsa and humos!

Salsa, with koriander and pineapple

Open your heart Hanna!

I need this one, to open my heart! After I did this pose yesterday Vinay told me that the pose is called "open your heart", without thinking I replyed fast, Yeahhh I feelt that. I was more relating to my chest and lungs not the love. He smiled and said good Hanna! I went a bit red in the face.

Imagine this was my Yoga teacher!

Some photos

Waiting for afternoon class with Kumar

Ritcha pic Me, Tea, and Cas

Asthanga Yoga asanas!

No you are not welcome

Thinking I might have some driving lessons while I am here, its only biping the horn and go anyway!

An Indian street cat, always an indian street cat!



Getting George clean!

Liane dryes her!

And lets get dirty again, a Indian street cat is not suppoase to be clean!

Why do Back bends?

She explains why I feel like I am hi on drungs after a class here! 

Me and George, not bonding!

Ok, me and Tea just gave up on studying any more today, the philosophy and suttras are very hard to understand. We are the worst students ever. We don't know how to chant the suttras and are not getting the philosophy behind them. Well as Tea said the other day when we leaft the class, "at least we both are as bad" ha ha! But we are hanging in there.

The weekend has been nice, realxing and fun. Went to the market in town, had som food there and even got a cockroach in the food. Tea is very scared of cockroaches but more of the ones that are alive thou. So when she screams like someone is tryining to kill her, I know it is just a cockroach. I am more scared of the monkeys or the cows when they are trying to get in to the house. We have a cat as well. Her name is George, yes someone thought she was a male when they named her. I have never been a cat person and now I am definitely not one. This cat is crazy and always wants my attention. But we have her coz she keeps the other unwelcome animals in our kitchen away. She is not doing a good work though, so I am considering firing her from her post. My other roomie I had before, loves cats and she is coming over so we can give George a proper shower one day. Tea is apparently allergic to cats so she can't help so I have to. Not looking forward to that day! But it will be good to get her clean though.

Soon mum gets her. Cant wait! On sunday she arrives. I am so looking forward to showing her around here. Only One more week, just have to focus on my practise as hard as I did last week
so the time will fly by. I feel really good in my practise now. And also after my "Pancha Karma" I feel awesome. Dont know if its in my head or if it made a differense but that dosent matter, at least I feel good.

I am really happy for my friends back home in Sweden that fought on Sunday. Awesome work. Wish I could have been there to support them and watch. Looking forward to seeing it on Video when I get back. Miss my friends from back home and my family a lot. Wish I could pack all my frind in a box and take them with me everywhere. But I have facebook and skype, I guess thats how I keep my world together when I miss talking to friends and family. Thanks for keeping me updated, really appreciate it!

Glommens Thai box team is hot!

One more class, then relaaaaax..

One more Back Bend class with this guy Vinay Kumar, then time a relaxing Saturday!

Getting smacked!

Beautiful morning, is in a good mood and I feel like I am at the right place at the perfect time. Lissening to Swedih radio maked me happy.

Had my second massage and steaming for my 7th day of "Pancha Karma" It all reminds me off beeing back in Thailand and is getting ready for a fight. The place looks like it could been where the fighters in Thailand get their massage before a fight, not very gamoures. After some hard deep tissue massage she starts "smacking me up" with her palms. It sounds like you are at a ping pong championship game, she is so fast, or she would be the perfect trummer in a rock band, different beats she got it all. Then its steaming. I sit in this box for 20 min and sweat out all toxins and of cours all good minerals and nutrions to, after I get a coconut I feel great again. Coconut water is the best thing there is, natrual electrolytes. After I have had a long runn in thailand and been sweating alot I have a cocconut and I can finish my muaythai training like nothing. Here in Mysore they have a coconut stand in every coner, just like Thailand have thire seven eleven.

My practise this morning was really great. A Jay was happy and me to. I have been doubting I was ready to go more futher on with the second serie. But today I showed him I am ready and he will get me futher on, made me super happy! Tomorrow is Vinysa class again thou, so I have to enjoy having a good day coz tomorrow will be way harder to get him impressed.

Yesterday me and Tea whent to the market and bought loads of food so we can cook. On Sunday I can eat whatever I whant again, how good is that! But I wil try and eat natrual food, organic, with vitamins and good nutrions. After this Pancha Karma my body is detoxifyed and will be abel to take in the Vitamins and nutrions better.

Tea bying coconut

Lunch at the Mandala cafe

The steaming box I sit in!

Where I am getting my massage done

My massage lady heating up the oil

Morning class, tryining to warm up

Laundry everywhere

Attack by Monkeys in our garden

Making dinner!

The fifth day of "Pancha Karma"

Moved and settled in at the new place. I decided to not move in where I stayed last year. Now I stay in the old Shala that they made so students can live here insted. Its nice. I live here with Tea, my Finish friend that also practise with A Jay. We have a big kitchen and the hole house for our selfs.
Feel a bit wierd leving my old room with my other roomis coz we just started to get to know eachother but I see them ever now and then around the city.

Today is my fifth day of "Pancha Karma" and I am so happy coz that means no more medication in the mornings. Its been terrible. I have been drinking like Oil or butter liquid, imagine you drink pure oil, not nice. The first day 20 ml, second day 40 and so on, then the 5th day 100 ml. After I drnik it, I feel like throwingup for at leaste 4 h after, then I feel a bit better, but I have no hunger thru the day at all, thats good thou coz of the diet. So this morning was the 5th day and I had to drink 100 ml, and I HAD to be at the shala and do my practise at 7 a clock, coz A Jay told everyone it was extra importat coz tomorrow is full moon and no practise. So I put my alarm on 3.30 am and had my medicine.  Tryed to sleep thru the worst bit of feeling sick and whanting to throwingup and then I feelt okej again by 7 a clock. Happy that its over, now I have four days of steaming batch and massage, still I have to go on my diet but it will be better when I dont have to drink that oil. And the practise this morning whent really well, I do actually feel alot more energietic, so maybe I am getting more pure!

After class we were chatting to A jay and Tea is going to do Suttra lessons, its lessons where you chant suttras. The suttras is in sanskrit and it tells you all about yoga and how you should act, think and bahave as a yogi. I already had my suttra lessons and I like it coz I leard so much about the hole filosofi around Asthanga yoga, not just doing asanas (poses)! But the thing is you chant them, and you have to do it one by one. And its not my favorit thing to s chant, I can not even sing propper, only sometimes in the shower but thats it. But today when Tea was asking about the lessons, A Jay said Hanna should do it to. Tea was nice and said "yes but she did it already in the teacher training course" his reply was, YES BUT SHE FORGET ALREADY, so I gues its time for Yoga suttras again, he he!

Today I will get my bike so I can get around much more eazy in town. I just hope this crazy indians will have patient with my driving, coz they drive like crazy. I know how to drive a bike in Thailand but they way the Indians drive here, its nothing like it!

To night me and Tea is gonna make Pienapple salsa with koriander, so selebrate fool moon tomorrow and sleep in!

Tea ouside our house

My fruit man!

Viney Kumar, my Beck bending teacher. This is how he opens every class ;)