yogini

so granola girl just left. i think i mentioned her a while ago, she was in my class at the goethe institut - she is from toronto and recently returned from studying yoga in india. we got to talking the night our class went out and she was saying that she wants to start teaching yoga and i told her i wanted a yoga teacher - so bravo! then i told her that my brother could help her put together a website for her to get some clients here in berlin (she is studying for her masters in... something). so tonight was the first time she could come over and we could do yoga. i should qualify this by saying that i have done yoga once before - but some fancy kind that not a lot of people do. i can never remember the name, it's not even in wikipedia. i did it through the adult education organization in sacramento 2 summers ago. it was good, but not something i felt like i would do a lot.

tonight was different. we did ashtanga yoga and it was really great - you don't hold the poses for that long. i was expecting to be sitting indian style with my fingers circled for an hour, but it wasn't like that. we did a lot of different poses and at most held them for 5 breaths. the goal is to get your body warm and purifying itself and i couldnt believe after a few times i was sweating! i had no idea that it was going to be like that. it was great! so now i think my new plan is to go to india and study yoga. maybe find myself. what do you think??