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.
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