Saturday 10 May 2008

Coco

This training you could look at it like this; we've build this hard shell around us to protect us from the outside world, while at the same time there's this very lively fresh juice inside which everybody know we have, but can't quite reach it.
Then there's is this great yogi who knows how to reach the juice so you can drink it, his head is so hard that he can break the shell off for you if you allow him to. It might take some nine weeks and could be quite an intense experience, really all it takes is a little trust.

This week has been for many the hardest up till now, fatigue is kicking into a lot of people, and also the whole week was a bit out of track, starting with the return of Bikram and the news that his best friend Bisu (son of his guru) died that monday. Bisu had played a very important role in Bikram's life; they both did these 'fakirish' yogi shows together which we saw video's of this week (elephant walking over yogi, yogi on a nailbed run over by a motorcycle, yogi swallowing snake's and frogs, that kind of stuff ) He also joined him in his journey to Japan to get the attention on yoga over there. The best thing he could do in respect to his friend was to take a yogaclass with us, because if not for his friend he might have ended up somewhere totally different ('selling vegetables in the streets of Calcutta'). It turned out to be a dual-teacher class which was quite funny.

On wednesday a lot of mexican press had gathered in the hotel to do their stories on what's happening over here. Bikram gave about 15 interviews, in the evening there was a demontration in the hotel's lobby; for the occasion some yoga champions flew in to perform some more advanced hatha yoga
On thursday we were lectured by Jon Burros about the emotional body and how the streching in yoga has positive influence on the energy flow throughout the body. Basically his point of view was that there's a tissue which is connected throughout the whole body and it's parts, which functions as a passageway for energy. Whenever damage is done (physical or emotional) it can leave it's marks, memory in the tissue creating blockages in the energy flow. In life when lots of these injuries are not processed properly, the blockages can crate pain or injuries in the bodyparts where the tissue is connected to. This can have quite far reaching effects. One story was about a young girl who had had a heart transplant. She was given a heart by someone who was murdered; after the transplant the girl had visions of the murderer in her dreams, when reconstructing the image they actually managed to catch the murderer.

Posture clinics going good! I got some nice feedback this week. Furthermore Bikram's continued his lecturing on the filosophy of yoga, and the Indian model of a human's life path. All this accompanied by late night movies;, we're watching the Mahabarata (Indian mythology) Bikram doesn't blink an eye when he continues till 4.30 in the morning, everyone lying on the ground sleeping, He himself doesn't sleep for days in a row. For me i've ot reached that point yet, so bye for now!

btw. there are a lot of people keeping up a weblog for their folks back home, at this site a lot of them are listed http://www.yogabootcamp.blogspot.com/

1 comment:

Jacqueline said...

Hi Sjoerd, Jacqueline uit Australie (en ook Nederland, hihi) hier, ik lees nu verschillende blogs mee ivm jullie Teacher Trainign en het gaat er flink aan toe zeg! Wat een gedoe, die hele film.... En dan ook nog zo weining slaap! Ik las dat er al aardig wat mensen doorheen zijn..... Goed van je hoor, dat je het volhoud! Ik ben in juni in Nederland en dan ga ik uiteraard naar de Bikram studio in Den Haag dus wie weet zie ik je daar. Ik zag nog enkele foto's van je van een andere blogger, je bent een flink stuk vooruit gegaan, het ziet er fantastisch uit! Ik heb inmiddels de dialog ontvangen en ben al aan het studeren geslagen...
Heel veel sterkte, nog maar 4 weken te gaan!
Grtjs,
Jacqueline