2 Girls for Every Guy...

Dear Katie and Friends at City Yoga, Just like the Beach Boys remind us in 'Surf City', the Mysore shala has the same ratio: "Two girls for every boy". (Sometimes it's three to one.) Today is Sunday and the first day of the yoga practice week. This class and the last on Friday are led classes. I don't particularly like the led classes since we all start well together, but by Navasana things begin to fall apart (Saraswati has a long five count in each of the repetitions). And just before the finishing asanas, it's a scramble just to keep together. But the led classes do allow a head count for the current population. Sixty-one in the shala this morning. Among the people I have met, therer are representatives from the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Jordan, Japan, Korea, Norway,Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Taiwan and Thailand and the USA. Two things unify this unique group, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and English. Some of these people are just beginning an Ashtanga practice and work with Saraswati one-on-one in the afternoons. Others are very advanced and there's every level in between. If you don't know where to stop during ypur practice, Saraswati will tell you when to sit and watch during the led class. Many of the people here are teachers. Some will return to where they live and teach until they've saved enough money to support them being here for another six months. Others, like myself, are only here for a few weeks. Whatever the reason or the duration, it is undeniably an experience of a lifetime. I'm already past my half-way mark in Mysore - time flys when you're having fun. Om Shanti, Lars