Tuesday, September 30
Tuesday
Monday, September 29
Just Let It Go & Breathe
Saturday, September 27
Escape
I spoke with a very intelligent woman today whose name I can’t mention, but she's very good friends with Bikram and has been for some time. I was telling her how I was so overwhelmed and she brought to my attention that this training is cramming a 4 year “degree” into a 9 week course, so of course I’m overwhelmed! There is constant information being thrown at us so it’s impossible to retain it all and very easy to get overwhelmed. So she said I needed to get out of here (the hotel), so I happily took her advice and it was WONDERFUL! Lindsay & I ventured into Acapulco for the day. We got an awesome taxi driver who knew exactly where to take us, which turned out to be his mom’s little shop in an authentic Mexican flea market. There was a nice man we met at the market, which was the drivers friend, who was like our personal guide through the market. He told us that he was there for us, to watch out for us & take us to the best shops; what a nice guy! So I ending up spending a little money J I mean I may never be in Acapulco again, right? So we shopped for a couple hours then ate at 100% Natural. OMG! It was so wonderful to eat different food, I’ve been eating the same buffet for 2 weeks now and it’s not very good food. So we both got 2 meals, 1 to bring back to the hotel to eat for dinner tomorrow. The drive into Acapulco was absolutely gorgeous! I think I will be going into Acapulco every weekend from now on, it was a much needed escape and will help to clear my mind every weekend.
Oh & we did have class this morning, it was okay. I'm finding now that I can go into some postures deeper than I've ever been able to, but at the same time there are some that I'm worse at than I was when I first started practicing. I'm stiff in so many places! But some good news is that the shoulder problem I've had for quite a while (as some of you may know) is getting better I think. I've been taping it for every class but on Thursday night I forgot to tape it & it didn't pop out once! I'm going to try taping it every other class for a while to make sure it can heal completely.
Tomorrow I plan to lay by the pool, read a book & study dialogue a bit. We start posture clinic Monday which means we will start reciting Backward Bending & Hands to Feet pose. Thankfully I already know them! Oh, we also have an anatomy test Monday which I haven't started studying for. And we have to make our weekly trip to Wal-Mart....yay.
Beautiful hand painted (with horsetail) wood plates. I actually bought the brown & black one that's kind of in the center of the picture.
Love this pottery, bought a great coffee mug like this.
Lindsay, me, Jill & Kacy
Friday, September 26
Friday
Thursday, September 25
Classes 17 & 18- It's almost Friday!!
Wednesday, September 24
Pain
"What may be painful for the body may be profitable for the soul." -Unknown
Thanks mom!
This just has to be true...right?! Hah...I have to keep telling myself this because let me
tell you I am feeling pain.
I'm not even going to waste my time telling you where I hurt because I'm sure by the end
of this my whole body will have hurt at one point.
And just to vent- the fact that we have to sit in chairs , uncomfortable chairs, for a good 7
hours a day does NOT help at all. Talk about sore stiff muscles!
Anyways, just wanted to post that quote, it's a good one.
Classes 15 & 16
Evening class with Bikram was pretty good, it was almost 2 hours as well. We found out that the guy I told you about that flipped out during class left training. Bikram talked to him & tried to get him to stay put apparently he doesn’t like women; he thinks he should not have to learn or listen to a woman tell him what to do.. Bikram said good luck & told him to leave then. Pretty crazy.
So now that I am settled and used to the routine of training, it’s not so bad. I was talking to a friend named Jennifer tonight & she said take it 2 hours at a time, you probably won’t feel the same way by then. She ‘s right; before class I was kind of bummed & just home sick I guess but now I’m a little better. I guess this will ultimately be the thing I have to learn to deal with- knowing that I’m ok & that I can do this, there’s only 7 ½ weeks left. Wow, did I just say 7 & ½ weeks?! Time really is going quickly. Once we start posture clinic, other than half moon, and get broken up into our groups things will probably start moving even quicker. I’m sooooo glad I studied as much as I did before I got here because there really is not time to study except the weekends. And personally I need a little down time, like more than the hour after lunch or dinner that we get. So I’m so relieved to know I can relax and enjoy the weekend a bit & do some studying. There are so many people here that didn’t even know Half Moon when they got here. I can’t imagine the stress they must be feeling trying to find time to study with everything else that’s going on. The only thing that really gets to me here is that I never really get any time to myself. I’m sure everyone is feeling the same way, but really it’s tough because everyone needs time to just be...alone! I find that doing this blog is a good escape for me. That’s why I typically write a lot.
So it’s pouring outside right now; when we came out of class it was freezing! Ok maybe not freezing but cold…to me. It was very refreshing though. I just ate dinner & am about to go to lecture. Bikram told us today that one if lectures will take until 4 in the morning; I just he doesn’t do that lecture tonight J
Tuesday, September 23
Classes 13 & 14
Monday, September 22
Monday...
Saturday, September 20
No class til' Monday!! & Pictures, finally.
TGIF!!
Wow. This week has gone by so quickly, thank God! I did my dialogue today. I’m so glad to have that over with. I did good, he said “Wow, perfect.” Then he tried to say I had a southern accent, lol. Lindsay went right after me & he asked her if she thought I had an accent….which she said no….then he was like can you demonstrate a southern accent for me? It was pretty funny. Guess you had to be there J
So we got luck today. Instead of watching a movie again Bikram decided to give us the night off! That was the best thing I’ve heard all week. So what did we do with our free time? Wal-Mart of course! Hah, yeah we went again & tried to stock up for next week. This way we won’t have to go this weekend, we can just relax on the beach! Ahh, it will be so wonderful! It’s so hard walking past the beach every single day and not being able to enjoy it!
Well I’m going to get some rest for tomorrow mornings class (at 8). Then I will be free until Monday! Yay!
I’m going to try to get some pictures uploaded this weekend. Talk to y’all soon!



