Practice has been good in the Shala and anyway practice is always good. \u00a0It is what we do. \u00a0Parker and I have a routine and being here in Mysore with Sharath and Saraswathi\u00a0is a time to focus on that. \u00a0I mean we get up at 3:30 am so we have adjusted our day so this is possible. \u00a0There is also Chanting and Yoga Sutra Study for us in the late morning and I somehow took on some other classes in the afternoon on some days. \u00a0 I know, I like life full, what can I say.<\/p>\n
I have the good fortune to be there for the opening chant and Parker the same at the Shala he practices in. \u00a0He is learning the words through this repetition and you know the switch that goes off in the brain when you start saying it in the streets and on walks. \u00a0 That’s fun to experience and it is somewhat of a relief, like the asana sinking in, the chanting starts to sink in.<\/p>\n
I come here to practice and to learn more about myself and yearn to go deeper inside to the heart center, to the source, through the yoga.\u00a0 \u00a0No matter where you are, you bring yourself to the practice. \u00a0 \u00a0There is no magic and no shortcuts just because I come to Mysore. \u00a0As it was said in conference and in yoga sutra study we are building the foundation for yoga through asana practice. \u00a0 \u00a0Strong house, strong foundation and something that will be able to sustain us in our lives through the ups and downs and the flow of the universe. \u00a0 I like the energy here and the practitioners are a pretty special bunch here. \u00a0The commitment is unending and I get that. \u00a0 Everyone is looking to focus, to go deeper and to do their practice.<\/p>\n
Speaking for myself, I have no real expectations but I do have goals. \u00a0I want to do the practice correctly, feel good in my body, breathe properly and certainly have the desire to accomplish something that I have been working on. \u00a0We will leave it at that. \u00a0In Ashtanga Yoga and while in Mysore for sure, you give yourself permission to practice when you are tired, when you are a little sad, when you are maybe lonely and homesick as well as when you feel great and are ready for anything. \u00a0Again, it is what \u00a0you come to do.<\/p>\n
In conference someone asked a question and he happened to not be at practice that day. \u00a0Sharath knew and said, “Why weren’t you in practice” and of course there was not a good answer so Sharath made a joke of having to pay a 2,500 rupees fine. \u00a0 We laughed but I felt sorry. \u00a0I mean, didn’t we all arrange our lives to learn and put our trust in this teacher. \u00a0People still think that they know better, that they know more.<\/p>\n
One other question was about the inner Guru. \u00a0Some of us like to think that we are following this and that we do not need a teacher telling us as we are following the teacher we all have inside. \u00a0However and this is a big however, how do you know this is not your ego speaking and your ego getting in the way. \u00a0Practice is polishing this inner guru and it usually needs some help and that’s what we do in the rooms, through the various series.\u00a0\u00a0I like what the Ashtanga practice teaches me here and everywhere I go.<\/p>\n
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