Feeling fine!

What a great morning! Sun is shining and I am getting my full strength back. Today I’ll go see if I can find Shivananda’s bedroom for some meditation and then to the main ashram to listen to Swamii Bill’s noontime lecture.
Well…Breakfast went sooo slow, just that way i like it i missed seeing Shivananda’s bedroom. SO straight to Swamii bills noontime satsang. Now Swami Bill is from America, but has been in India for like 35 years living at the ashram. He has almost totally lost his English. Which is so fun to hear him talk. the way he does. And his voice is directed through his nose which really makes it sound fun! Anyhow he brought another swamii in for conversation about Yoga in India! This was fun. they talked about how most westerners only know hatha and not Meditation.  Also how yoga is supposed to be about the union of our mind and body and not just some exercise.
How nice it was to sit in the room with about 65 yogis from Europe
of whom don’t really get what the swamiis are talking about and it was how I started my yoga path 17 years ago. I could have given that talk, but i dont plan on turning in to a swamii anytime soon. Yes i have a little ego here, but i think its healthy. I have gone through great strides to understand the Indian yogic philosophies. Mostly experiential. Its just really nice to be with like minded people. After the talk I said hello to Swamii bill and told him I was friends with swamii bodichitananda and he said with his loud high nasal voice,”May god be in your heart always”! Then he offered me prasad with the food prayer. I sat at his feet for a bit then headed out to meet Swammi B for lunch.
I was face-booking with Gina Sala earlier yesterday and I told her I wished I could have Mexican food, and she wished for Indian. So funny how I was eating lunch and they had Mexican on the menu!! Woo hoo! My 2nd non Indian meal in weeks. Over lunch Swamii b and I talked about integral spirituality which is an current study of spirituality that has evolved over many thousands of years and now one thing we have is a record of it which helps us define it. Very interesting topic. swamii ji invited me to go to a conference the next day about yoga and Ayurveda. I accepted his invitation and headed out for a yoga class.
i took the suggestion for asana class from another American I met earlier in the week to go t this studio near Laxman Jhula. The teacher wa a really nice guy, but not so much my style. I felt i was more advanced than he and was not satisfied with the practice. After we finished, I continued a few Asana’s to show off a bit and get some extra work out. the teacher I think understood me much better after that and gave me a big hug before going. The class was done entirely on the floor. So no standing Asana’s and he had me do some fast movements with exhale that seemed a bit weird. I just went with it. Oh well..Its all good any practice should be good, but i know my temple better than anyone and what it needs to keep it running good. After I went to dinner and had pizza with Yaks cheese! YEAH! And an early bed for me.