can’t believe it is the 17th! Only 7 more days to go.
Our practicals begin tomorrow. I’m lucky because I was assigned a Kriya that Andrea has taught many times and I know it well. I don’t want to over practice it, because I want to do an experiment and see if the teachings really do simply ‘come through’ energetically as we have been taught.
Today was an amazing day. Gurmukh taught. You have to find her on youtube…I’d link, but the internet here is really bad. She is 70 and could kick anybody’s butt. She has this super soft sweetness with a really awesome edge. She loves big parties and birthdays! Every chance she can get to feed us cake she does. (Don’t worry, it’s all Ayurvedic, full of fruit, and delicious). Tomorrow we celebrate all the Pisces because her birthday is coming up on the 25th. Of course, I think that’s awesome because mine is on the 27th so now I’m convinced we have some super cool connection.
The food has gotten a little weird in the last week. We have been on an Ayurvedic Cleanse of sorts. The rice and dahl I totally understand, but we are in a country where they never say no. Because of that, they continue to serve “special requests” of raw salads, fruits, loads of roti (little breads), and always dessert. Aside from that it is a perfect cleanse. They even put out all the herbs and powders that we need. Of course, no one knows what to do with anything so I have been having a ball walking the buffet line with people suffering all kinds of disorders and helping them to understand how to put it together. Back to weird though…. I think they are trying to gorge us on the bitter and astringent taste. Zant and I literally couldn’t eat our lunch today and ate dinner in the hotel. If anyone ever offers you a bitter gourd…run.
So, I don’t know if I told you the monkey story, but the monkeys are really scary especially if you are taking a picture of a baby monkey. The stray dogs that were so adorable tried to attack Zant and I at 3:30 am the other morning on our way to Sadhana. I think they were a gang from another part of the hood because our street’s dogs came to our rescue. Well….tonight, we paused in the street to adjust a flip flop and my 6 cows including Tyler, Bess, and Josephine circled us and nearly licked us to death. I think I’m scared of cows now too. They are very big. Lawrence was sick today and all the locals where feeding him bottled water. I found Jill this morning sheltering from the rain on the top stair of one of the hotels. They are hysterical.
Goodnight friends. Sat Namooooooooo, Pamela
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