It's just amazing how time passes by very quickly. About same time last year, M and I would just be chatting about my 2008 travel plans and now it's already past the halfway mark.Got one more week in Phuket and it will be just a week of yoga and chilling out by the beach. After days of cloudy sky and rainshower, the sun finally came out yesterday... last day of my one week teaching stint at Julie's shala. What a great way to finish an awesome week!
After the morning class, Julie's friend and practice buddy/yoga teacher Luigi came to practice with us. He studied with Lino Miele and therefore practices with full vinyasa. Lino is an old-school ashtangi and one of the few teachers who still teaches the full vinyasa system and the press to handstand from navasana. I've practiced full vinyasa in 2003 at the former Jagad Yoga shala in the Philippines when a visiting teacher came to teach a workshop for a week. I was new to yoga then and man, was it tough! Though like with anything else, one simply needs to get used to it and find one's rhythm. But with Luigi keeping the pace, I'd say it was one hell of a great practice.
After practice, Julie whipped a mixed fruit shake for us... "to keep the blood sugar up" as she'd say. It was also almost noon so Ben (yup, Ben the OFW/yogi from KL... he came just for the workshop... a fellow Pinoy on the ashtanga path... thanks for coming mate!), Julie and I decided to have lunch in Nai Harn. We had Thai vegetable fried rice with egg, stir fried kale and mixed fried veggies with curry. Yum! Enjoyed the sun and the beach after.
It looks like it's another sunny day today so we're off to a morning walk up to the Phuket Big Buddha and then join Marika for sailing. Yes, sailing!!! This must be a dream... a dream I want to be in for the rest of my life, hahaha.
2 comments:
Hi Jon,
This is the first time I'm going to ask you a question about food...how come after practising I get a whopping urge to eat sweets? The big slice of chocolate cake variety ha. It's so consistent and strange. Am I diabetic (there is a family history) or is this related to burning so much energy and losing plenty of fluids from practising ashtanga?
Thanks! You and Ben really look like you're having tons of fun :-D
Hey Melanie... ashtanga is a pitta-producing practice and craving for sweets is just the body's way of telling us that it needs something to bring the pitta down... sweet foods decreases pitta in the body as well as increase kapha.
Physiologically speaking, you're burning a lot of energy and the body needs to replenish it's glycogen stores thus the need for something sweet. You have to be careful though and choose foods which are high in complex carbs and not just gorge on those mouthwatering chocolate cakes... having said that though, I myself have a stock of oreo cookies in my hotel fridge, hehehe.
Yup, it was fun! I'll be in Manila by December and will post my teaching sched soon.
Ciao.
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