Oy Vey Namaste: Blast off

Wowsers! As the length of this blog post will show, Week 4 left us with very little free time. The pace of posture clinics is picking up. We went from 1 posture in 2 weeks to 2 postures in 1 day. Everyone is walking around reciting dialogue ALL the time. I am guilty of this too. I even woke up the other morning and the first thing I thought was, "Stretch your upper body down from the lower spine towards the floor." Oy vey namaste!!!!!!

Here is a very quick rundown on the week of what I can remember. Its really hard to remember the specifics of the days here because for the most part every day is the same from the day before and the day after. I'm living in Groundshog Day. This week we had 1 ridiculous hot class. Rumor was it was 122 degrees. People were dropping like flies. If you didn't drop, you were carried out. I saw people doing some interesting things. I tried something I've never done before - poured ice from my water bottle into my hand and placed it in my bra. I had so much sweat dripping in my eyes the room looked smokey. There was even one part of class I dropped to the floor facing the wrong way and my body was just too heavy to swing over to face the correct way. That's never happened to me before. First for everything.

Also this week we finished Anatomy Lectures. As entertaining as Dr. P was, his lectures confirmed why I didn't pursue a career in the medical field.

Posture clinic, posture clinic, posture clinic. Posture Clinics are where we recite the dialogue to 2 teachers (usually 1 senior teacher or in my case, world champion) and a group of 40 other teacher trainees. Intimidating, yes but overall they are going ok. The teachers give us feedback on how we can better deliver the dialogue.

Hot class, Anatomy lectures, and Posture Clinics, pretty much sums up Week 4. Bikram has been gone for the past 2 weeks but he will be back on Monday. We have all heard that Week 5 is "Hell Week." Apparently they turn the heat up, there are a lot of visiting teachers (including Max), and the pace of posture clinics picks up.

Here are a few pics from the week:

Must stay hydrated. Post class must have water, Kombucha, and hot tea