these are some of the baby goats we saw at the surfing goat dairy in maui.
careful, it's a pretty full of cute.
pictures to come...

My teacher came to town this weekend, and taught. I promoted, and got many of my students to come and work with her. it was a lovely time, but alot of work. So tomorrow I rest, and pick up traveller's checks, and tuesday morning we fly to maui. i'm pretty excited, and pretty happy to have a nice warm tropical place where we can play in waterfalls and go to nude beaches and watch the full moon! We went bikini shopping yesterday, which was fun for me too, cause she's really got a smokin body, I think she gets hotter just about every day. yoga? perhaps. maybe it's just the love growing....

I bet there will be pictures when we get back, but i sort of have this aversion to posting ones of the girl, it seems a little personal. She wandered in the room while I was on chat the other day, and it made me a little uncomfortable. Although it was nice that sid acknowledged that she was cute...

i rocked the first week of yoga teacher training. put together an awesome manual, and kept everyone entertained and educated for 15 hours. i even built them an online board for forums and chat. then i stayed in bed all day monday. and i mean all day. got up to meditate and stretch at 9:30pm

Today, I got treatments!

We are starting to do intensive PanchaKarma Treatments at the house. Panka Karma is a purification regimen, and it involves lots of treatments, they go all day.

We have our first client, and begin a five day treatment on thursday.

So, Veena wanted to practice, she's the boss with this kind of stuff, I am just the humble assistant. Angela came over, because she will be helping with the ABYANGA, or hot oil massage.

The abyanga consists of being drenched in hot, herbed oil, and having rubbed over you in long flowing strokes by two people at once.its pretty juicy and wonderful, a little different than traditional massage, they don't work the muscles the same way, mostly its just a slather. its still pretty intense, though.

Then it was down into the sauna. I did twenty minutes, while doing mantra on my beads.

Then I went back upstairs and had another session.

I'm not sure what this one was called, but it involves a powdery spices and dust.
So I got spicy powder rubbed all over me!! It was fantastic.

Then I showered off.

we planned to give me a basti (hebal oily enema), but we were a little wiped out, so we ate and rested.

did anyone else have trouble sleeping last night?

in other delicious news, we rented The dragon room at the maui eco retreat. we are appropriately psyched.

I just spent $42 on a gallon of paint.
i think that's a little high. There is an eco-friendly home store that opened near me in mt. airy. I wanted to support it, and also, I've been remodleing my bathroom for about the past year and a half. I've gotten to the stage where its time for me to slap a coat of paint on it, hang a mirror and call it done. So I went to the shop to check it out, and its nice, but certainly not budget. I figure its good to have a paint that has no acetate, formadelhydae or any of those gross solvents in the one room where i steam and soak myself on a daily basis, so we'll consider it money well spent.


This is a fun website of Ayurvedic Paint Colors. This isn't the paint I got, I just got some semi-gloss white. However, If you go to the site, you can learn about ayurveda, and color healing and they have fun roll-over menus where the colors bounce all around. Veena and I were thinking that we should become Ayurvedic Interior Decorators, and charge our clients a fortune to pick out appropriate colors for them. It's ok, we would be worth it.

Hopefully the bathroom will be done soon, and i can post pictures. I am kicking myself that I didn't take "before" pictures, because it really is a whole new world.

Im studying scientology!!

not to worry, I am just reading a book that l. ron wrote about how to sauna. A friend left a box of books at my house and this one was in it.

Scientology is apparently really big into cleansing through the use of exercise and sauna. They have figured out that if you take the right combinations of vitamins, you can sauna for up to 4 or 5 hours a day. Of course, you have to build up to it.

So, you need to drink enough water, take niacin to help with the flushing out, take 'cell salts' to replace the salt you sweat out, take high quality oils, and some calcium and magnesium. I may be leaving something out, but I'm not done the book yet. oh, right, and vegetables, eat your veggies.

the longest ive stayed in the sauna so far is 30 min. I might try to kick it up to 45 tonight.

christmas day:

wake
stretch
refresh catnip on sweetie's scratcher
bathe
blog
go to studio to practice yoga (group practice, I don't have to teach, woohoo)
movie (juno?)
chinese food
go home
get lucky?


wishing you at least as much fun as this
pazyamor
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