some good news!!

some very exciting news today. I telephoned the ashram, Sivananda Kutir, just now. To request permission to stay there beginning September 2nd. They confirmed that I may come but only dorm accommodation is available (that's what i wanted anyway) for around 11$CAD per day. This includes everything at the ashram, food, lodging, and all classes and activities and sessions. You are required to partake in all the meditations and group morning and evening classes and gatherings, everything, the chanting, the singing, and it's quite strict, silent meals, etc. It is also very remote, right next to the river, and the mountains. Along the right side of the blog site here, underneath the pictures and "about me" yadda yadda, you will see a small picture of it. click on it. This is where i will be. This is where i am registered to take my teacher training in april, so i am happy to get the chance to stay there and check it out before i go into my formal training there. Also i will be able to ask them if there is a possibility of staying there for a longer duration sometime between now and april, and to possibly ask if there are any last minute cancellations for the october 2008 teacher training where i might be able to do the training earlier than april 2009.
sorry, just all my thinking out loud. But basically, my stay there right now will just be a regular stay, not a teacher training of course. So i am very excited... to finally get out of the cities and into the mountains and into a quiet place where i can begin to practice again. so good.
So i believe that this is a place where there is no internet for sure, and in fact, perhaps, no internet in the town a short walk away, but perhaps. we shall see.
so just a word of warning.... if i "disappear" from the internet ... this is the reason why. and if it turns into a couple weeks... don't worry, this is why: i am in the himalayas, by the ganges. apparently, i was reading online someone's blog i guess (i googled the ashram, this is the wonderful thing about the internet, you can gleen so much information that people write about places, their experiences and impressions). and she wrote that she was there and there was a noisy gushing waterfall right outside her window so she couldn't sleep and it was so isolated and tranquil and strict, she couldn't stand it. i laughed and thought: now this is a place for me.