no fiesta, siesta por favor

it's saturday night, i'm in acapulco, i have nothing to do tomorrow and i'm about to go to bed. i gotta be honest, not being able to drink in mexico, (and being too tired and sore to dance) puts quite a damper on the social life.

Here are some odds and ends pictures, since i got an email from my mom complaining about the lack of photos. More to come soon, I promise.








Today was pretty interesting, woke up, got my ass kicked by Craig in class. Honestly, during awkward pose, i hated his guts. I was shooting him looks of death and I wanted to cry my legs hurt so badly, and my arms, and my whole body, but somehow I survived. After class, I took a nice long savasanah, well really I dosed off for 10 minutes or so and woke up realizing I should be thanking the guy for an amazing class. He made me work harder than I wanted to, and way harder than I thought I could. That's a great teacher for ya.

Anyhow, after wobbling back to my room, we had lunch and headed to the pool. Let me give you guys a warning-- if there are pictures of my sunburned ass floating around the internet somewhere it is not my fault! jk... kinda... we were definitely victims of some crazy perve by the pool. It started out innocently enough, some guy (maybe 45ish) came over with sunblock and just sorta sat down on Katie's chair asking her to put sunblock on his back because he couldn't reach. katie's a good person, and couldn't really say no, so she did and he tried to chat us up for a minute and then went back to his chair. Then a cabana boy came over with a pina colada for Katie from the guy. She explained we can't have any alcohol, and the cabana boy came back with a virgin so she waved a thank you to him, and we all thought it was a kind gesture....... so maybe 15 mintues pass, and he comes over with business cards asking us for our email address and yapping about some humanitarian project that he was doing and we could check out the pictures online... needless to say we did not give it out, and he left us after saying something about the natural photos.... at this point we were kinda annoyed but not really skeeved out. until some woman, bless her heart, came over and told us that she had seen him taking pictures of us from underneath his towel!!! i guess he saw her see him, and as soon as she walked over to us, he started quickly gathering his stuff up, and he basically peaced out with this guilty peeping tom expression on his face. We pieced together, with the womans help, that by talking about "Natural Photos" he was basically propositioning us to take nude photos for him!!! What a creeper! She said that she was watching him for awhile trying to figure out what he was doing because he was trying to be so sneaky... ick ick ick.

But not to be worried, we gave her the business card he left us, and she went straight to the hotel manager. okay i gotta go, we're making a run to costco!

it's friday!

so this morning i woke up feeling like hell. i was stiff and sore and i had the sick realization that i still had two months to go. morning class was rough and i walked out thinking holy shit the honeymoon is over. But then as a random and shocking act of kindness Bikram let us out of our afternoon posture clinic an hour early and postponed our afternoon class by a half hour. that meant we got to spend some quality time by the pool which was glorious. the sun was exactly what i needed and afternoon class went really well. right now i'm starving waiting for room service (it's friday- time for a splurge!) and it's kind of funny because we have the night off tonight, we're in acapulco, you would think we'd be itching to get outta this hotel and go out, but that is not in the cards. i took the longest shower, shaved my legs, put on my pjs, im planning on eating and probably passing out. 9 yoga classes in 5 days kicked my ass. i'm so excited all we have tomorrow is 8am class... after that i plan on being on the beach all day.

oh ps- i don't knonw how i havent mentioned it yet, but it cracks me up, all anyone can talk about here is poop. and i'm serious. we've had more lectures about "if you are constipated or have diahrea, it's perfectly normal and okay" a lot of people are having major problems, and i feel super bad for them, but it's a crack up. some poor girl was bawling in the bathroom and when someone asked if she was okay she cried out "No! I haven't pooped in 3 days!!" then in the stall another girl calls out "at least you haven't had the shits for 3 days like me!" so gross, yet it's still comedy. honestly, i heard some guy at the pool saying, "well before class i passed some pretty impressive matter" !?! wow. that's where my life is right now. i was looking at pictures from this time last year and it's funny to compare last years Coors Light flavored adventures by the pool with now. Instead of mixing drinks with jack daniels, i fix my Electrolyte Cocktails all day. Not that I drank that much last spring, but it was such a fun filled semester. Now I am still having fun, but i'm just so much more focused and driven. life is still good, it's just different right now.

despite the food situation...

which sucks. options are limited. very limited. I just bought a salmon salad, had two bites, threw it out and went up to my room to make a pb &j, but anyhow, despite that, I've gotta admit if i trained in LA i would be hating us right now. conditions are AMAZING!!! the yoga room is obnoxiously nice. It's absolutely huge, brand new carpeting, which means it doesn't smell! and there is a prety big entry way room with plenty of cubbies for our stuff. We have all of our lectures, and so far posture clinics in a huge ampitheater, (after we break down into groups- posture clinics will be held in suites! plus in between morning class and first lecture erika and i have been taking a dip in the swimming pool! today we shared a coconut that was freshly craked open for us. tasted a million times better than Zico coconut waters. my only disappointment is the cabana boy brought us a pina coloda and we declined given the no booze rule. damn, it was pretty hard to give it away, but the guy we gave it to seemed happy. anyhow, i'm off to posture clinic for more Half Moon Pose... sooo monotonous.

Groundhog Day...

Already I feel like I'm trapped in that movie. It's only wednesday and the monotony is crazy.... class, posture clinic, lunch, posture clinic, class, dinner, posture clinic. it's mostly rough because we've been listening to the exact same dialog over and over and over again-- It's taking forevor to get through 290something people's half moon pose. Anyhow, it's after midnight and we just got outta posture clinic. i should probably be pleased he let us out this early, but tonight just seemed to drag. i've got to admit though, bikram is pretty damn entertaining. he reminds me of a 9 year old with a severe case of ADD. I've also started a list entitled "Names Bikram Has Dropped" sadly i only started counting In our last clinic, but so far i've got: Elvis Presley, Barbara Streisad (of course), Shirley Macclaine, Ronald Reagan, and countless others. i love it. actually, at the moment, he is super likeable. granted, my feelings are probably going to change a million times over the course of training, but right now he makes me smile. okay, i'm going to bed. 5 classes down 94 to go!


ps- in every class at some point i think every teacher at Elk Grove's face has popped into my head... that makes me smile too and i don't think that's going to change at all :)

still survivin..

today was practice with rajashree, lecture, posture clinic, class with bikram, and we're about to go in for more posture clinic. I did my dialog in front of bikram and it went really well. I didn'e mess up at all and he said "you dialog good, but you sound like barbara streisand." then he went off on a tangent about her (i guess she was one of his many pupils) and then he said, "but you did good job". so i'll take that. classes went well today. I still haven't had to sit down yet, which i'm very happy about, but i swear, i have never sweated so much in my life. it's pretty foul. it's like a constant faucet that just drips down. not attractive. but i feel pretty strong so far... except i know this is all the calm before the storm.... anyhow, i'm off to posture clinic!

day one..

Okay so I cheated, and I"m gonna cut and paste from this email i sent, sorry for the redundance!


Hey everyone, I made it here safely and soundly. The resort is absolutely amazing. It's so gorgeous with palms trees everywhere 5 swimming pools, botanical gardens, golf courses, the works.... Not a bad place to be spending 9 weeks to train for yoga! So far all of the people I have met have been super friendly, and Erica and I already made a trip to the local grocery store to stock up on groceries.... (sidenote: it was on the order of Costco with the free samples... except Costco doesn't give out free samples of Vodka and Cran... WOW that's mexico for ya!)

Anyhow, today was the first day of training and it went very well and good. Bikram lived up to all of my expectations and it blew my mind how many innapropriate (but comical and usually right-on) comments he made. We sat through a few hours of lectures and some testimonials- one of which was from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He attributed the last 7 years of his career and the fact that he's still able to move around today to the yoga. We also started posture clinic today and about 50 people did half moon pose in front of Bikhram. (i am still bitter I kind of got the shaft-- Craig (more about him later) asked for 5 volunteers, I jumped up eager to get in out of the way, but then he had us demonstrating the posture itself not the dialog. Erica went today though, and she totally rocked it! Bikhram was very impressed and kept asking what studio she came from. Yay for BYEG!! :)

We only had one practice today and it was a long one... we started at 5 and didn't get out until 7:15... keep in mind class is only suposed to be 90 minutes, but Bikram lived up to his reputation of holding postures and talking at length. Kareem practiced with us and it was pretty funny because i looked to my right and about 4 people over i saw his ginormous chest and shoulders sticking out 2 feet above the people next to him. (not to talk smack on the guy or anything but.... He about died after the 3rd posture and left the room! I'm very proud to say I not only stayed in the room, but I didn't have to sit down once. I was shocked to see how many people were dropping like flies all around me. I felt pretty good, it was hot, but not too bad. I sweated more than I can remember, but I could tell he was tryign to take it easy on us. We'll see though, i don't want to jinx myself, but I'm feeling good about things right now.