Week 2

Week 2 done, 7 more to go, I can't believe we have finished 21 classes and by the end of training we should have completed 98 yoga classes. From what I am told these two weeks we just finished are the easiest ones by far compared to what is going be coming in the next several weeks. We are finally done doing Half Moon with Bikram and are starting our Dialogue clinics this coming week. Our morning yoga classes are usually taught by one of the senior teachers and the evening class are taught by Bikram. We were told that we are the first training group to have Bikram with us for almost the whole 9 weeks of training, his yoga classes are good I just have to get use the many breaks we get in between postures, he tends to talk alot, his classes usually run 2 hours long. There has only been one class that lasted 90 minutes and he killed me, so I prefer the 2 hours for now even though I am sweating like a dog. There are cooling spots in the yoga room they are the circulating vents but you have to arrive early to get a spot, but starting next week its all going to change, the spots will be chosen for us everyday, we will be rotating from front to back so everyone gets a chance to be in the mirror and close to Bikram or any teacher that is teaching that day.

As for me, how am I feeling? Everyday is diffrent, some are good days, some are homesick days, other days not sure what I am feeling. My practice is really bad right now, I feel like a robot, we wake up around 7am, eat something small like 1/2 bannana or yogurt, run to the ice machine to fill our wonderful orange water bottles we fill them with 3 limes, sea salt, sugar and of course water, after our class we usually get about 2 hours of free time, this gives you time to shower, change and go eat some free buffet. Colleen, Chris and Chris from Phillie, we tend to run to the salt water pool after class to cool off then change by the pool and head out to the buffet. People have started taking tupperwear to the buffet to take food ( your not really suppose to do this), I tried doing it once this week and to be honest with you, I didn't really like the feeling of stealing food, so for now I am passing on this idea but it is funny watching people do it and try to hide it. The food is good so far but I am sure its going to get old. Check in time to lecture is usually 12pm till around 4pm or later, then all 300 of us run to our rooms to change and get ready for the evening yoga that starts at 5pm, after yoga is done we get about 1-1/2 of free time, to eat, shower and change and go back to lecture till whatever time they want to finish. The lack of sleep is getting to me but they say the more yoga we do the less sleeping time we need, ummm not working so far!! I am pooped...

Today is Saturday and we did our grocery shopping, which actually takes alot out of you to do, all you want to do after Saturdays yoga class is sleep, but since we only get part of Saturday and Sunday, you really have to make the most of it. We found a group of wonderful Mexican ladies by the beach that do massages for $20 bucks for a 1 hour, so I have decided that I will either get 1 or 2 every weekend while I am here, believe me if you were in my shoes, you would want it everyday. Its getting late and I feel my roomy waking up, till next week my friends, please send me good positive energy the coming week.