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I am getting ready to reverse the process I used to arrive here ....mentally and physically ......by rickshawing, bussing, and training back to delhi and then planing to vancouver with a nice relaxing lay over in hong kong airport for 11-ish hours. It feels like the undoing of a ball of yarn that I wound up back in August of 2008 when i left. The long layovers in airports i dont mind so much. I admit i kind of enjoy them, it gives you a little time to acclimatize and adjust and it makes the fact that you are flying half way around a planet, essentially travelling backwards in time, slightly less disorienting. Slightly. Besides, I love to browse in the shops (hardly ever buying anything) , and watch people and eat snacks, read books and write and mull . Mull over my life, mull over my existence, on this plain, before i get on that plane. Its a thing about airports, international airports, that is... an expansive feeling, that you could go anywhere, just anywhere at all, just pick a counter and hand over your credit card.

Today I guided a tour of 13 guests from the ashram up to the waterfall and we all took a nice swim after the hike. Very enjoyable. This waterfall is the one with a big pool that is about 12 feet deep in places and people had a really really good time. I was happy to see the joy and clarity on their faces. The joy and clarity that only nature can bring sometimes. Nature with her natural remedies for what ails the human heart and spirit.

After this I will go back and teach the afternoon class. The theme will be purification. I didn't plan it on purpose to coincide with the swim in the waterfall, but it IS coinciding, without my efforting it into existence. This is how most things work, isn't it?

I love the people who come to my class, with all my heart. Their willingness, their commitment, their show-up-ness. They are not experts, most of them are not even intermediate yoga practitioners, most are beginners or lower intermediate level practitioners and this is the most challenging place to be when you practice yoga. But you do it for yourself because it makes you feel better. It makes you feel better than you did before. and each day, after giving this gift to yourself, your feeling of wellbeing and wholeness increases and you are encouraged by seeing this small progress and you are encouraged to push on. It is so inspiring and I love to be of service to these people.

Not much else to report,

just a quick note, and a note of gratitude to all of you, loved ones, friends, family, again, for supporting me on this journey.

Love to everyone