Oy Vey Namaste: There's no place like home

By the middle of Week 7 I came to the conclusion, I'm ready to go home. I learned my dialogue, I met some really cool people, I experienced "the process", and I did a lot of yoga. Party is over and I'm ready to go back to reality. Before coming to training I thought going back was going to be really hard. While I'm only dreaming of actually going back, I do not think it's going to be nearly as challenging as I had imagined. For all my FERC followers, I am so excited to come back to work. For all my yoga followers, I'm thrilled to start teaching. And for my friend and family followers, I can't wait to be back with you all.

While sentiments of home sickness stewed around the Radisson this week, it was overall a pretty easy week here at teacher training. Since we finished the dialogue, posture clinics consisted of us going up and combining 3 postures and seeing how it felt to let the postures flow together instead of just saying one at a time. I was shocked at how much of the dialogue I remembered. We were in posture clinic ALL week. Pictures below will give you a sneak peak of how exciting one can be in a posture clinic.

We only had 2 movie nights and neither one was Bollywood. Waaaahooooo!!!! I'm not really sure what the first one was about because I slept through most of it and the part I was awake for was not in English and the subtitles didn't work. The 2nd movie night was just clips from the early 80s of Bikram on talk shows when he first came to Hollywood.

Apparently it's a tradition for the Fall Teacher Training group to have a Halloween Party. My friend Christina and I got sunglasses with bicycles on them because during one of Bikram's lectures he asked us if we looked like bicycles. $2 sunglasses was the extent of my budget for a Halloween Costume and picking them up where I happened to be shopping in Venice Beach was also the extent of the effort I wanted to put into planning a costume. I had a great time people watching during the party. Many of my fellow trainees put a lot of time and effort into their costumes and it showed. I hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.

Things I am thankful for this week:
1. Subway and their avocado
2. The beach store had my hydro flask that I left there last weekend
3. Baking soda to take away nasty smells in my hydro flask
4. Jacuzzi at the Sheraton
5. Coffee, tea, and Kombucha

Don't we look just like bicycles?