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Yoga and Carter Road

30 March 2014, 06:53

Maybe I should apologise for not updating the blog in such a long time, but I wont. I can not apologise for having to much of a life IRL so that I cant keep up my life in cyberspace (not that I ever have been very good at either keeping blogg or replying to people, to much else to do^^). Anyhow, still I will try to as much as I can keep you informed about my happenings but it will be rather briefly. I did think I would have more time over to write here, read the stupid amount of books I brought with me and so on.

Whenever I go away, on holiday or some other kinda of trip or actually even if I would just meet someone for a coffee, I always picture the outcome of the event. It will go like this and this and this and that will happen. I really should have learned by now that life always have a supring way to surpasse the expectations. Most of the things that I have done and experienced is so much better than I would ever have imagined. So is this time. Im like a kid in a candystore (or worse, like me in a candystore^^). This city has so much to offer and I want to see and try it all. Two months will not be enough.

I am not sure how to explain Mumbai, it is a mixture of everything, it has everything. You have trees growing along the streets. You got slum-houses next to impressive architecture. Here are people that are stupidly rich while others can´t feed their children. Here are people of every religion I know, and several I never heard of. As said, I cant paint a clear picture. But I can say that the city is alive, it is a city which is vibrating with life. In the day-times there are people everywhere, the roads are packed, the traffic is crazy. And the early morning is amazing. The air is much fresher, and it is quiet, some people taking a morning run by the sea on Carter Road, the dogs are sleeping on benches, cars or the street, a cat is looking for food in the gutter, a indian man is walking on the street with a towel around his waist with a waterbottle in his hand, the foodstands are closed and the only ones open is the chai-stands.

Enough about that. I have spent a week at the yoga-institute. I cant belive how fast it went by. I definitely didnt feel like a week. We been practising, pranayamas, kriyas, karma yoga, asanas and much more. I have met so many new wonderful people and had so much fun. It has been long days and my bum is so sore from sitting on the floor for more than 10 hours a day. But it has to be at least a little bit challenging or it would not be worth it.

I did make some realizations and that is that I have not come as far as I thought. There are still things that I have run away from in the past that I probably would need to deal with. The realization that specially one certain thing affects me came as a suprise since I thought I "put that behind me" a long time ago,

In the intstitute I also met a girl who attendeted a Vipassana course and when I told her I had been accepted to one she urged me to go. I had my doubts before whether or not I would acctually manage that, but who am I to say no to faith, if I have been accepted and people telling me to go I have to go. Simples.

After the yoga-camp I moved to Carter Road. It is very quiet area compared to Santacruz East, where the Yoga institute resided, which was close to the international airport. Carter Road is just by the beach. I got a lovely room, nice roommates, lovely land-lady and lord.

Since I got here two days ago I constantly been on the run meeting people and doing stuff.

But im lagging after in my other work and trying to find some time to catch up with that.

The thesis have had a few setbacks but im sure it will work out for the best.

I am sure these two months will fly by and that I will have a wonderful time.

Love S.