I don’t know if you’ve tried to give away a TV recently, but unless it’s a flat screen, no-one’s interested. And even those, the TV repairman told me, are just being left out on the street. Must be a symptom of a well-to-do society. According to Bob Brown, Australians have never been richer than we […]
Earth is compassion
Again I want to preface this by saying these are my reflections on classes, and what I understand and remember from them. In the interests of full disclosure I’ll also say that I’ve succumbed to illness, so am feeling a little gloomy! (Might have been the triple sundae!) I missed Geeta’s orientation today, which apparently […]
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Bellur exceeds expectations
Bellur was fantastic of course. We stayed in a run down but wonderful hotel – wonderful because it had monkeys, a waterslide and pool, table tennis and badminton. We met some lovely Americans, Russians, Latvians, Aussies, and Indians. Luke played water polo with some young Indian men and posed for lots of photographs. Bellur is a small village […]
The King is dead, Long live the Queen!
“You people,” (it’s a pejorative), “a grave mistake that you people make is to make the body narrow,” booms Geeta from the stage. And she is so right, as she is about everything at this Convention. Someone told me that she’s been practising all year to prepare for Yoganusasanum, and her teaching certainly has that […]
Spread your body like butter
Now that I’ve been sick I feel like my fear has gone and I’ve surrendered to India. I can stop fighting it and just go with the flow (so to speak!). After two days in bed I finally lifted the phone and whispered “doctor” to the guys at reception. The lovely doctor said “classic food poisoning” and gave […]
Dawn of a new era?
Prashant’s Class I’ve been listening to Leonard Cohen and reflecting how Prashant gives us the same permission to be mere humans – with all our frailties – that Leonard Cohen does in songs like “I’m Your Man”. Aspiring to perfection but accepting the reality of our human imperfection. In this morning’s class Prashant said […]
Trying to understand India…
This is the life. I can understand why Leonard Cohen spent so much time in the Chelsea Hotel! We’re living the yogi, family version though of course here at The Hotel Ketan! No domestics to do, just yoga, reading, writing and facebooking! India is amazing – truly beautiful and yet it’s concerning what’s happening to […]
Being or becoming?
This morning was my first class back at the Iyengar Institute (RIMYI) after 14 years. Even though I was here in Pune, India last year for the Geeta Convention, I didn’t attend classes at RIMYI. Some things have changed – no more squat toilets – but mostly it feels the same, my feet opening on the marble floors just as they did all those years ago. Prashant looks older of course, more like his father. Let me predicate this blog with a disclaimer – this is my interpretation of what Prashant said – and as he said, we are all making our own recordings of what’s going on according to the quality of our equipment!
