bad bloggers

Sorry, i have been a bad blogger. There just hasn’t been much to write. Not much is going on. Just getting mom acclimatized and showing her around. Waiting for my jetlag to wear off and just meeting up with some old friends.
We are all snuggled up here at the ashram, and there is just not a lot to say about it. Just eating, sleeping and doing yoga and going for walks. It IS nice to be back. I had forgotten how the wind blows up the valley here in the Himalayan foothills. The air is rich with prana, lifeforce. Each breath is alive.
Diwali, festival of lights (and fireworks and homemade bombs) is wrapping up here. Yesterday was a cacophony of explosions well into the night. It has mostly subsided now, but there are a few who are still using up what they have leftover, so there is an occasional “BOOM!!!” every few minutes. This morning in the yoga hall in our final relaxing savasana there were explosions, so our teacher had us do brahmeri pranayam, honey bee breath, to balance the disturbance. Pretty cool. There is a 500hr teacher training going on here now, so there are teachers from all over the world staying at the ashram.
It was nice to be back in the yoga hall... breathing. The breathwork is very effective and deep and valuable, but i gotta say, i missed the alignment, and Katrina, if you are reading this, i have been thinking about you and incorporating all my anusara alignment techniques for a happy body. That, combined with all the breathwork, is crazy powerful.
I finally have gotten my laptop up and running. I had discovered when i got here that my adaptor didn’t work, so i bought another one here for 20rupees, which is about 50cents. And it works charmingly. So i am sitting on my balcony after a yummy sattvic dinner of dahl, vegetables, rice, chapatti with ghee and kheer (MY FAVE!!) with Sanskrit chanting playing, clacking away on the keyboard and enjoying the warm breeze blowing up from the Ganga. I know, sounds great right? It is, and it is lovely, but don’t think it doesn’t come with a lot of inconveniences, dirtiness and general chaos, because it is India and so it does... come with all that. Hats off to my mom for taking this on.
I lost a day. I lost a day and i just found it today. Ever since we left Kamloops on Monday, it has been a blur. I know that Monday was November the 1st, but with the days all running together and travelling so far, i completely lost track. I thought today must be Friday and the 5th, ... turns out it is already Saturday and the 6th. Wow.
Washed my clothes today by hand for the first time again. forgot how time consuming that is, on the bathroom floor, but i have nothing but time now, so what else am i gonna do.
Oh, i really wanted to say a big thank you to Elizabeth, Stephanie, Rosi, Lucille, Shirley, Katrina and Leanne who put together that fabulous dinner we had before i left. That was pretty special. You guys are amazing. I love you.
Ok, that’s all the blabbing from me right now.
Be love.