Week 6 done!!

So week 6 is done and gone, another good week for me. What I mean about good is that I stayed focus and didn't break down. My week started with my group pressuring me to attend the Sunday 11am yoga, this is a class that is not mandatory, it is for make up classes or for die hard yogis. To my surprise my practice was probably one of my best here since arriving but the best gift was the reminder I got from it. It gave me back that feeling I have when I practice at home and why I am here. I was on cloud 9 that whole day.

My body actually hurt more this week by Thursday night I could not feel my body, as soon as I started Half Moon on Thursday my tears just ran down my face, the feeling I had was SHIT my body hurts so much but I am gonna make it through no matter what and I did like always. The morning yoga for most of us, is the hardest, as soon as we get to first set of Hands to Feet, you hear all the moaning in the yoga room, we kinda laugh about it during class.

It's unbelievable that we have only 3 weeks left, so much to still do. So far my Yoga dialogue has been going well. I still wonder if it is true that all this dialogue will be in my head when I get home. I really hope so, since I will start teaching as soon as I get home. I am very excited to getting right into it but at the same time and I am nervous.

We had Rajashree here for the whole week, what a week it was. For the most part she taught the morning classes followed by her lectures. She was very kind to us, the lectures where during the day, followed by evening posture clinics.

I am still stuck in the hotel but hopeful that by next weekend I will get out and see Acapulco, maybe even go see those cliff divers everyone talks about. 3 Weeks left and all though I will someday miss being here, I just can't wait to be home with my family and see how this whole training has changed my life.

Week 4 & 5

Wow week 5 over!!! Feels so good, even though I am so tired having to be over the hump feels really nice. Week 4 was probably my worst ever, they said it would come week 5 but it came early and I cried like a baby. I knew the training was going to break me in so many ways and so far it was proven to do that. The week started with Bikram teaching early in the week and leaving us hanging before camel, he was so upset that so many people were sitting out of postures, walking out of the room, he got so upset that he walked out on us and said class was over, we never got to Camel and believe me Camel is the best part of the yoga, people been suffering in the yoga room with cramping, throwing up, etc, but I don't think Bikram realized how bad the heat and humidity was. We had to meet Bikram for lecture that night and we all didn't know what to expect, we knew he was upset but to our surprise he decided to make some calls and they figured out that the yoga room was lacking oxygen and it was 97% humidity. Since then they have added many fans and opened some vents around the room, don't take me wrong the room is still HOT but it is finally a little better.



So what about week 5, well it was a good one for me. I just said to myself, your going to make it good and that's it!!! and it was a good one. Dialogue is going really fast, we are now starting # 17 Locust, my posture clinic feedback has been pretty good until COBRA.. I blanked out in the middle of it and added SHIT to the dialogue and I started laughing at myself, I got the students in and out the posture but the dialogue was all over the place. So now I am moving on and hoping that I will get back on track, I am still pretty nervous delivering my dialogue in front of the students, they say it will go away and I am waiting for that moment to come.

The days are flying by so fast, we go from AM yoga, lunch, posture clinic, PM yoga, quick dinner, posture clinic/lecture, then study till 2am or later, then it starts all over again. Oh and my latest perfume is TIGER BALM..yeah I pretty much put this all over and I don't really care how much it smells, it just feels really good on, and my favorite toy is my tennis ball, this baby helps with all of those sore spots I can't get too. Well I am off to get a massage by the beach, yeah I know it sounds rough, it is, really!!!

Week 3, sick like a baby

I was excited to get this week started, but I guess my body wasn't. My biggest fear came true on Monday,there I was 2nd row in the Yoga room and yeap the girlie thing happened and of course our towels are white, maybe I shouldn't be sharing this but its the way of life, I had to run out of class take care of my issue but coming back was so hard, once you get fresh air and try to get back to that wonderful Hot room, it's not easy. So let's just say that Monday was a really emotional day then to top it off I got a sore throat and was sick like a baby all week. I had to sit out during some of the postures, blowing your nose then trying to do some of the forward bends are not fun. Whatever I got and still have is going around and spreading like crazy. But even with all this happening we have to do our 2 yogas a day and now our posture clinics have started.

Bikram Yoga has 26 postures, so far we have completed 2 of them and are in the middle of Eagle, we have to do the dialogue verbatim with 3 bodies in front of us and about 30 plus people behind us watching and following our dialogue, then we get critique by visiting teachers & some senior teachers as well. Most of the time the feedback is pretty accurate, for me it has been pacing, I tend to go to fast being the Mexican that I am I tend to talk really fast. It's kinda funny when you are walking around the hotel and you see 300 plus people doing postures, practicing in group and talking to themselves, listening to Ipods.



I gotta tell you the lectures are definitely long and sometimes not very interesting but we have to sit through them and try to listen, its pretty hard to do when you sitting in the most uncomfortable chairs but somehow we manage to do it. One of the funniest moments this week is watching Bikram take his pants off on stage and show us his butt, yeap his butt.. I guess he thought he had a pimple on his ass then it turned out to be some blister or something, he kepted saying how uncomfortable he was and decided to drop his pants and show all of us, then he proceeded to clinch his butt and show us how deep breathing show be done, its was too funny.

So what about the drama this week, well last week we had some older gentlement from Polland storm off during yoga saying that our class was way too long (Emmy was teaching) and then basically wanted to punch out one of the teachers of course he was kicked out, then this week we one of the guys from England was kicked out, not sure why. People are starting to dissappear, not sure if for medical reasons but the rumors that go around are very interesting.

The training is definitely challenging but I am also having some fun, I haven't explored Acapulco yet but sometime in the future I will. We are getting sick of the food we eat here and of course the food that we are able to make in our rooms are limited but we are managing. My yoga practice is definitely crappy, one of the things that I heard from one of our teachers during class was "you are not here to improve on your postures, you are here to be great teachers" so with that said, I am going to enjoy what I can do for now with my yoga practice and be hopeful that my yoga practice will improve when I come home. If I can learn my dialogue and give back what was given to me, that will be more satifying than anything else.