Registered

Yesterday was a day with a lot of happening. Had class in the morning and then I rushed home to see if Alexandra arrived. Was a bit worried coz her taxi driver had call me a few times during the night and ask for her flight details. But she was as planed, in the house when I arrives back from class, unfortunate not her suitcase though. Hopefully it will arrive later today.

The day continued with a lot of focusing on how to get out money from the ATM so I could go and register at the main Shala later in the afternoon. I had to have a lot of cash to pay for my studies, and the machines don't allow you taking out as much as you want in one go. But finally I got it all out and me and Alex could continue the day with having nice breakfast and catching up on alla the things that been happening. We had a lot to talk about. Over the summer its so much happening that we never have time to just sit and talk the two of us, so we been saving a lot of talks to India. When we had something we wanted to discuss we always said, lets save it to India, and now we here. Think we did go thru almost all the topics yesterday. We been salving a lot of world problems and it will continue.

I went at 3 pm to register with Sharath. He dont really seams to like me. He started out yelling at me coz I had my flip flops on, witch everyone els had on the stairs up to his office. Thought I could just leave my shoes outside the door before I entering his office but I had to leave them all the way down at the gate. You come into his office two people at once to register and I had an Canadian guy with me thats been with him 3 times before. So he knew Sharath. Think that was a good thing coz it just made everything more relaxed and Sharath began to smile and I felt like I was not the worst person in the world to not have left my shoes by the gate. I am now registered and will have my first class in the main Shala with Sharath at 4.30 am on Monday, witch means coz of "shala time" the exakt time will be 4.10 am and I have to be there 45 min before so I don't have to practice in the toilet. But I am really exited and I bet nervous. 

Its so much western people arrived here now. Its so weird. The last month its been so empty and calm and now suddenly its just boomed. But its nice in a way.    

Time to get Alex out of bed and get some breakfast.       

Just finished led 2 nd series class with Vijay. Happy, I survived!Now breakfast time

Party Friday at Mr Raos place. Before many yogis arrived. Great Night, stayed util 22,30 PM then I had to give up and go to bed. 

Times flies here in Mysore, I am on my 3 week here now and finally I feel my body is getting into it, into the practice. Funny why it has to take so long time, maybe coz I am getting older, nooooo noooo !  I was so thrilled after practice this morning, I made it coming down from Karandavasana. And last week I manage to jump down from Pincha to chaturanga, witch I been struggling with forever. Its good to have these days to look back at when you later have days when everything just feels impossible. I am up at 4 am every morning to drive to practice and start by 4,45 am, its so nice going back to bed after the class and sleep until 9 am. Love it. We not many people in that batch so I get a lot of attention witch is awesome. Just love being back here.  

In the afternoons and the weekends its always been something happening. I feel its been a very social time for me, to get to know some new people and meet up with old once. It gives me a lot of energi but can also be a bit tiering some days. I try and balance it. This week and next week many of my old friends will arrive as well so I have a lot of catching up to do.

Right now its Dasera. Its a big Holliday for Indian people and its been going on for 9 days. Its so much people outside on the streets and all around, its crazy. I try avoid going into town coz it just mad in there. Did go a few times this week and I almost got runed over at least ten times. Its a lot of people anyway in town a normal Saturday or any week day, but now its even worse, its like as it is back home at the end of the Christmas Hollidays when everyone is buying the last christmas gifts, multiply by ten. And then people say that Mysore is a calm place comparing to the rest of india. In this chaos I get it, the importance to keep a calm mind, and a calm inside or els its not possible to live here. I don't usually get frustrated in traffic but lately I caught myself wanting to point my finger at someone who is beeping the horn for no reason, or thinking all kinds of weird words in my head about people who can't drive or think they own the roads,  but at least I didn't screen them out loud or showed my finger. But been very close. 

I understand why this is the land for meditation and awareness of the inside, when everything on the outside is so chaotic. The best place to practice a calm mind, its not by a beautiful beach with an amazing surroundings, even thou it would be nice with a beach right now, ha ha ha!

ok, got to do some washing, phuu, life is so hard sometimes.... and sorry if there its a lot of wrong spelling or bad english, you might have to get use to it. I would be very happy if let know my faults though, then I try not doing wrong twice, I try at least!

Have a nice day, greetings from Mysore.  

Mysore lake, sunset. 

Pooja

Meeting up with Angie who is my friends friend from New Zeeland. 

A afternoon at Mysore lake

Hello Saturday morning from bed

Back in Mysore...

It’s hard to keep up with this blog. Every time I want to tell you something interesting, I stop myself and think, na it might not be that important, you probably wouldn't spend time on reading about it anyway. To me, everything I do is very normal but then it’s not for some of you. So maybe I should put some effort in and let you know a bit about my every day life, at least for now. Coz I just arrived back in Mysore. My 7th trip here and on my 25 month, doing Ashtanga yoga. Ohh my god I am such a slow learner when I think about it, been here so long. All thou Its been a crazy ride, with so much experience and so many beautiful friends I made along the way. It feels like home to me here in Mysore, but then it has to do with whose here and not. Home is not a place it’s a feeling I think I realised. 

Was a bit scared I would feel like, ohh my god what am I doing back here again. But I didn't. Felt awesome from the beginning, even thou the rains been pouring down almost everyday sins I came back. First thing that happened was running into my friends at Doha airport, coz we were taking the same plain to Bangalore, had no ide they were on the same plain.  So nice for once to have company over. In Bangalore I meet up with my other friend from Czech republic and we shared the taxi to Mysore. We had so much to talk about but we both were very tired from our flights.

Its almost like someone knew it was hard for me to return back this time, but because it was the right thing to do, I got help by putting all my friends along the way, and made my return so much easier. 

The house I live in is huge. I got a big room on the ground floor and its 3 more rooms upstairs. The Indian family lives in a room on the same floor as me. Was a bit scared the Indian family would be on me all the time, but they seam to be very nice people. I have had experience before with landlords that have been a bit too much. But I feel relaxed and its nice to live here, also very safe. 

Practice is going good, soon I survived the first week, yay! 

So that’s it, not gone write more for now. I put up some photos soon...