So...we just finished day 5 of the 30 day yoga teacher training course and I have realized that when they said 'intensive', they actually meant INTENSIVE!....Its by far one of the hardest things I have took on so far. The challenges are seemingly huge and not just physically, but mentally and emotionally as well. Guess that's what happens when you are forced to spend time with just yourself!. So for all that care..here is a day in the life of tamara at the moment....
5:30am get up and momentarily question my insanity
6:00 -8:00 am sitting meditation and breathing exercises
8:00 - 10:00am yoga class
10- 11 breakfast
11-2 lectures, anatomy, yoga sutras etc
2-4 a most delicious swim in the ocean and homework
4-7 another yoga class
7 dinner and homework
and by the blissful hour of 10, after questioning my insanity again, I am snoring like a baby!
Interestingly enough, I am having the most difficultly letting go of the 'ego', since everything we do in western society seems to revolve around that. Its embracing the idea of 'being' as opposed to doing and achieving. And beyond that, gaining any sort of control over my mind is starting to sound like an unreasonable request. It most definitely does not want to shut up and every morning during meditation it politely tells me to f*&k off!!! And it constantly out smarts me...just when I feel like I am on the verge of gaining control, it starts wandering and finding the most obscure thoughts possible.....like your grade 5 gym teacher, or a really great dinner you had 7 years ago or the line in that meatloaf song " I would do anything for love, but I won't do that".....what exactly won't he do?..( that's for all the duke ladies!!)...and so on.....and on...
The weather here is amazing and in an incredible...the school is in Mandrem beach, northern Goa.....a balmy 28 above by about 10am...the accommodations are rather 'organic' and I am sharing with 2 lovely gurls, about 1000 mosquito's and 2 frogs, which have taken residence on the bathroom toilet seat but only at 3am when there is no electricity and you are unaware of there presence!.....
Everything is better then I could have imagined and can't believe its already been a week...time is gonna fly...but then again as you get older it feels like it always does.....off to get a massage and watch the sunset....no complaints!!
Hope everyone is beautiful, happy and smiling where ever you may be!!!
Namaste
5:30am get up and momentarily question my insanity
6:00 -8:00 am sitting meditation and breathing exercises
8:00 - 10:00am yoga class
10- 11 breakfast
11-2 lectures, anatomy, yoga sutras etc
2-4 a most delicious swim in the ocean and homework
4-7 another yoga class
7 dinner and homework
and by the blissful hour of 10, after questioning my insanity again, I am snoring like a baby!
Interestingly enough, I am having the most difficultly letting go of the 'ego', since everything we do in western society seems to revolve around that. Its embracing the idea of 'being' as opposed to doing and achieving. And beyond that, gaining any sort of control over my mind is starting to sound like an unreasonable request. It most definitely does not want to shut up and every morning during meditation it politely tells me to f*&k off!!! And it constantly out smarts me...just when I feel like I am on the verge of gaining control, it starts wandering and finding the most obscure thoughts possible.....like your grade 5 gym teacher, or a really great dinner you had 7 years ago or the line in that meatloaf song " I would do anything for love, but I won't do that".....what exactly won't he do?..( that's for all the duke ladies!!)...and so on.....and on...
The weather here is amazing and in an incredible...the school is in Mandrem beach, northern Goa.....a balmy 28 above by about 10am...the accommodations are rather 'organic' and I am sharing with 2 lovely gurls, about 1000 mosquito's and 2 frogs, which have taken residence on the bathroom toilet seat but only at 3am when there is no electricity and you are unaware of there presence!.....
Everything is better then I could have imagined and can't believe its already been a week...time is gonna fly...but then again as you get older it feels like it always does.....off to get a massage and watch the sunset....no complaints!!
Hope everyone is beautiful, happy and smiling where ever you may be!!!
Namaste
2 comments:
Hey Tamara! So nice to read your blog. You can bet I'll be following it closely! Yo sound like you're finding your feet there and that's fantastic.
Enjoy yourself and keep us posted on goings on!
Jeet
Sounds amazing... reminds me of the yoga class we did together in Pai.
Glad to hear you're enjoying yourself - you already sound "lighter" and more self-aware. I noticed the same thing happended to Rachel when she went to India... must be a magical place.
Wishing I was there to see the sunset with you!
Miss you lots, and thinking of you often! xoxo
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