ૐ It's just me ☼ Lee Lee ૐ ☮ ♥

A great morning, not tired at all.

Every day we learn something new.

So to start with, we learn one exercise in the morning and another one in the afternoon.

But today we only did one - Paścimottánásana, which is posterior (back) stretching.

Everyday we do the 6 warming excercises, and relaxation.

And of course all the other exercises we allready learned.

So everyday there is getting more and more exercises! Nice!

I always try to NOT fall a sleep when I do the relaxation.

I've learned, but it's hard and it happens that I do.

Today it felt like I was in a trance. Weird, but cool.

After the relaxation we talked about MUSIC MEDITATION!

Then we tried it. And WOW!

That is definitly something for me. (Since I love music)

I felt strong energy and vibrations in different chakras to different songs.

I didn't think that I was suppose to feel anything.

But I did, BIG TIME!! YAY, Now we're talking.

I'm getting used to be without makeup these days.
Feels so natural and nice. And when you have a little bit of tan, you don't need it.
Back home in the winter maybe YES!

And by the way.... There is someone who doesn't want my hair to be brown.
Why can't I be a brunette? My hair is turning blonder and blonder every day.
And yes I do know the affection from the sun, but it's fading.
I hate it. It cut off half because it's so damaged and to color it again.
ANNOYING!

More then that today I've just been at the pool and try to get some sun.

1 hour and that was enough. Just been thinking about food, food, food and sex.

When you don't get it, you want it even more, right?

Well, later people. Peace & Love!

I got a tip of a good book to read. Apparently anyway.
I still haven't read it, but I think I will.
So, I pass this forward to the rest of the people.

Shantaram is a novel influenced by real events in the life of the author,

Australian Gregory David Roberts. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to nineteen years' imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops, which he had committed to feed a heroin addiction after his marriage ended and he lost his daughter. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria’s Pentridge Prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for the next ten years.

The protagonist arrives in Bombay carrying a false passport in the name of Lindsay Ford. Mumbai was only a stopover on a journey that was to take Lin from New Zealand to Germany, but he decides to stay in the city. Lin soon meets a local man named Prabaker, whom he hires as a guide but soon becomes his best friend and who renames him Linbaba. Both men visit Prabaker's native village, Sunder, where Prabaker's mother christens Lin with the name Shantaram, meaning Man of God's Peace. On their way back to Bombay and after a night out, Lin and Prabaker are robbed. With all his possessions gone, Lin is forced to live in the slums, giving him shelter from the authorities and free rent in Bombay. After a massive fire on the day of his arrival in the slum, he sets up a free health clinic as a way to contribute to the community. He learns about the local culture and customs in this crammed environment, gets to know and love the people he encounters, and even becomes fluent in Marathi, the local language. He also witnesses and battles outbreaks of cholera and firestorms, becomes involved in trading with the lepers, and experiences how ethnic and marital conflicts are resolved in this densely crowded and diverse community.

The novel describes a number of foreigners of varied origin as well as local Indians, highlighting the rich diversity of life in Bombay. Lin falls in love with Karla, a Swiss-American woman who refuses to love him back, befriends local artists and actors landing him roles as an extra in several Bollywood movies, and is recruited by the Mumbai underworld for various criminal operations, including drug and weapons trade. Lin eventually lands in Bombay's Arthur Road Prison, where he endures many beatings and other physical and mental abuse by guards, while existing under extremely squalid conditions, along with hundreds of other inmates. However, thanks to the protection of Afghani mafia don "Abdel Khader Khan", Lin is eventually released, and works in black market currency exchange and passport forgery. Having travelled as far as Africa on trips commissioned by the mafia, Lin later goes to Afghanistan to smuggle weapons for mujahideen freedom fighters in Afghanistan. When his mentor Khan is killed, Lin realizes he became everything he grew to loathe and falls into depression after he returns. He decides that he must fight for what he believes is right, and build an honest life. The story ends with him planning to go to Sri Lanka which lays the premise for the sequel to this book.

When I woke up this morning, I was really tired.

All the energy I had from yesterday suddenly disapaired.

I was a bit low, but I got up to the class at 08:30.

After class I felt like I was going to die.

My migrain came back and I felt really weak in my body. And shakeing.

This is normal during the purification though.

But I thought I was done and purified by now?

Maybe this was my punishment for cheating with eating a really nice Italian pizza yesterday?

I guess so! And I was suppose to take the bike in to town and buy food.

Yeah right, I couldn't move.

I passed out after class and woke up again when it was time for the afternoon class.

My whole day was gone. D'oh!

During the afternoon class everything was going ok, until the abdominal massage.

Now we do 2 different massages for the stumache. And I felt sick sick sick.

So I had to stop what I was doing and sit down.

I didn't want to loose more of my appetite, because I was hungry and I haven't been

eating ok since the last weeks, or months... So, no more pizza until I come home ;)

After class I took my bike and went to town to do my grossery

shopping that I was suppose to do this morning.

On the way I noticed my flexibility, my balance, my pulse has changed alot.

And this is only in 4 days. FOUR DAYS!!!!

I also notice that my muscles and skin is feeling better.

I am shining, or at least it feels like that. (When I don't feel like I'm dieing haha)

I walk more straight and I tighten my stumache more and more,

and I feel it. And it feels really nice.

ONLY 4 days, and everything is mostly about the muscles connected to THE SPINE!

I recommend Yoga to everyone! :)

I went to Tesco and bought healthy food. No more crap!

Better start now then when I come home right?

But damn, it was expensive.

I got the great tips from Peter as well, to buy a HERBAL medicine namned Feverfew.

For fever, headache (migrain), soar and dry throath.

Found it as well, let's just hope it's working! :)

 

Had some chicken fried rice on the way. (sicken flajd laj as the thai would say)

Really nice because this place has really fresh vegetables,

and you pick how much and what kind of vegetables

you want in your food mixed with the rice and chicken.

And if you are smart like me, you take shitloads of vegetables, and there is 2 portions.

Voilá! So, you eat as much as you can,

and the left overs, you get in a doggybag! :)

Also bought cheap satés (pork and chicken) and 2 springrolls.

I will manage on all this food for over a week... I think.

 

And yes friends, I will post pictures of this place I'm at.

But since my camera is ”retarded” at the moment and the display doesn't work,

I don't want to stand and take 344545 pictures and ONE is OK!

But hold on, it's coming I promise! :)

I've took some today at sunset time though.

 

Enjoy.

Outside Agama Yoga and where I live.


Here is my home. :)



Another sunset picture :)



This is what you get welcomed by when you enter Agama Yoga on Koh Phangan

Sahája agnisára dhauti.

This is a abdominal massage that makes the waist slim,
increases digestive fire and expels excess fat from the belly.
Strong relieving effect due the burning of psychic stresses,
gathered on the level on manipura chakra.

Just what I need. And it's a purification!
It felt kind of weird to do it, and to have long fingernails like me, isn't the best.
Since I got big marks from my nails next to my navel now. HAHA.

Another thing we did today, was the "Salutation to the sun"
We also said things after every thing we did.
For exemple: Namaste pose, we say AUM MITRAYA NAMAH.
And there is 12 poses during one exercise.
THAT was funny. Since everyone said it wrong, had to low voice etc.
I mumbled mostly because I had noooo idea what we were saying.
And to remember it while you are doing other exercises, isn't my best.
Since I hardly know whats left or right.
Aaaaand I have to focus on it in English as well... GAH!

I had alot of energy today.
So much engergy that I had a hard time to sit down.
Unfocus? YES! I wanted so jog 3449353535 miles.
At least I got my energy back anyway, and that's good :)

• Scrape your tongue with a tongue scrape!
• Sea salt on your finger, brush gently the teeth, on gum, inner surface, under tongue etc. Spit!
• Rinse your nostril with warm water mixed with salt. Use a "neti-can" for this, or with your hand. This is good for clearing your mind, head and nose. Spit, do not swallow!
• Wash your eyeballs with cold water.

You should do this every morning right after getting up from bed!Now it's time for bed, that's it for my Yoga update today.

I'm gonna do this blog post a bit shorter then I was thinking.
I don't really feel good at the moment and now I know why.
It's called PURIFICATION!

Thank's Yoga. Thank's alot for making me feel sick as hell.
I know that it will do me good later on, and like I said - it's a purification!
I just hope that my MIGRAIN that is a pain in the ass right now,
is gonna go away and I can have my energy back soon,
so I can do other stuff then just lay down. Or vomit when I don't lay down!

So, from now on - NO PILLS in any kind, and NO SUGAR and NOTHING that blocks my energy.
And ALOT OF WATER! But that's nothing new, you should always drink alot of water :)
Sorry Pete for not really understandig you before, but they explained everything today.
I understood about the meds, but when you REALLY understand, you UNDERSTAND.
HAHA, sounded complicated. But yeah, sometimes you feel like a dumbass!

Anyway.
The migrain has been going on the whole day, even if I went to bed after morning class.
When I did the mastric massage (found under the breastbone) I felt sick.
So sick that I wanted to vomit. And every time I did it I felt worse and worse.
This massage is for purification of the energies in the abdominal area and
the expelling of toxic energies at the massage point.
I've did this before but I never felt sick from doing Yoga before.

When I came to my room, I took a shower (even if you should wait 1-2 hours) after class.
But the shower is my "feel better" place. I feel good under water.
And then it came. My illness. So I finally threw up.
After my shower I cried and cried. I don't really know why.
Just been really emotionell.

We talked about that today as well.....
I have more YING energy then YANG.

Can someone please tell me that I am purified now?
More then that, I feel good. Everything is going well with the course.
It's just second day, so I guess that it can get worse in the beginning.
Gaaaah....

Time to sleep away the migrain... I hope...

Morning session 08:30

Took of all jewelery, put on some cotton clothes.

Signed in, since it was first day.

Got my book. Yes, we also get homework! ;)

Still tired, but my morning changed quickly.

Took 10 min to wake up my brain though and really listen.

I noticed that I was stiff and un focused, but hey – First day!

It wasn't easier to focus when you had a yoga teacher that looks

a bit like Matthew McConaugh as well... Jeeeeeez haha!

My brain were working fast fast fast...

I noticed myself acted (or thinking) like a little kid :

- Bla bla bla bla bla bla, Weeeeeeeee, Lalalalalalaaaa!!

But that's why I'm there! To learn how to control and focus.

 

After the morning session,

I had more energy but I decided to stay in my room and think, write and relax.

Not good waeather anyway so I watched a movie too.

Then it was time for afternoon session at 16:00 and after that some more talking about what yoga is.

The first days is apparently mostly teory and talking. Alot about the 7 Chakras!

More understanding so you know what you are doing etc.

Some things they talked about, made me realise alot.

I can't really explain how, because you have to experience it yourself to know what I'm talking about.

One of the teachers said that she had a 40 hour sessions about WHAT YOGA IS!

So, you maybe understand that I could write a whole book if I start ted to write about it.

 

Well, a good thing is that we are going to learn about healing.

Great, maybe that helps me to stop being sick all the time :)

A weird thing that happened during the exsercise was that someone took my hand.

Or something. TWICE!

I opened my eyes and thought someone in the room accidently touched me.

But it was no one near me... Hmmmm....?

I also found this song on my computer today....
ANNICA THIS ONE IS FOR YOU DARLING! =)



Now bed. Later amigos.