Yogini’s Quest

Let’s see, shortly after I posted my blog yesterday, Sharath told me to come at 6:30. 6:30 shala time is actually 6:15 real time, don’t ask me why. So, I guess it ended up working out.
However, like so characteristic of what happens to me, my alarm didn’t go off.  Actually, I turned my [...]

A handful of friends are going home at the end of this week.  It’s a sad thought and I’m feeling a bit bittersweet about it all.  It’s an open heart syndrome here.  I can get so close so quickly to people, but there’s a fancy twist to it all.  To open up so much, to [...]

Money, blah.  I had almost forgotten about the stress of my life back at home.
Every once in a while, I used to wake up in the middle of the night and stress myself out for hours.  I don’t seem to be such an emotionally dramatic person, but I can get some nasty anxiety and it’s typically [...]

I often hear about people talking about the pose and how wrapped up we get in the asana. We talk about it all the time, “ashtanga is such a physical practice.” At home, I often am criticized by other “yoga” practitioners of it being too intense. I find myself defending the practice in a [...]

It’s so easy to get lost here, I’ve written about this before. The image I’ve been seeing has been great the past two weeks and it all came together today, in a big, bad bang.
What am I doing?
I came here for yoga, not to win a popularity contest.
When confronted with things I feel uncomfortable [...]

1. Friendships. I have gotten so close to the people I’ve spent time with since I’ve been here. It’s like a whole other world of a connection. Even if I’m not intending to run into so-and-so that I see all the time, we seem to end up at the same places. Yet, [...]

1. Nothing is ever on time – except for the time to arrive at the shala, where you have to show up early because the clock is set 15 min ahead.  Other than that, nothing seems to open until 10 am and even then, it might still not be open.
2. Squatting – I never sit [...]

A girl from the shala back at home got a tattoo on her forwarm with those words written across.  It always resonates with me as I often discover myself trapped in whatever troubling mental space I create sometimes.
I sometimes tell myself fake it till you make it, but I find this often sends me [...]

 
As I was sitting at the coconut stand the other day, relishing in the fact that I am actually in India, I realized I wasn’t really sure what day of the week it was…ah yes, Wednesday.  I haven’t even been here a full week yet and I’m already lost in the moments here.  The greatest [...]

It’s quite the scene here, social scene I mean.  I’ll be the first to admit, I haven’t even been here a week yet and I feel like I’ve exhausted my social network.  Since I’ve arrived, all I have done is practice, hang out at the coconut stand (be social), eat (be social), hang out (more [...]