A Day Of Anatomry
This day off has been quite productive indeed! Kwang and I ate a delicious breakfast at the Southern Star with Reena and Vincent. From there I headed straight to the Anatomy and Physiology workshop that Ken (the Rolfer) is teaching this weekend. The ten hour workshop is jam packed with so much information – I’m curious to see exactly how much I’ll be able to retain! Today we spent a great deal of time focusing on the anatomy and kinesiology of the arms, legs, pelvic girdles, and spine. Tomorrow we’ll spend more time looking at the pelvic and shoulder girdles, the spine and diaphragms, and the physiology of the Autonomic nervous system. I am really enjoying the workshop and find the information to be quite useful for my own practice – also really great knowledge to add to my teaching.
I’ve spent the other portion of my day thinking, thinking, thinking, and surfing the web for information. What am I thinking so much about??? Life! Thinking about exactly what I’m doing in September – just how long will I spend in Thailand? Will I come back to India for a month? Where will I move when I go back to the states? I want to go back to school – where? What will I study now? What will I do for work? So many questions. Well, so things seem to be taking shape. If I can work things out, I will travel Thailand till mid-late September as I had hoped, and I will come back to India for another month before heading home – nothing set in stone but it does seem feasible…When I get home it seems quite likely that Kwang and I will move to Miami where he can focus on golf and I can go back to school (with in state tuition!) and have a great yoga shala nearby where I can focus on my own practice. What will I do to make money? Well I do love to teach, and hope to continue that – but I do not want to go back to it full time right now – I want to focus more on my own personal practice and teach a few classes per week. Since I really want to go back to school I wouldn’t mind waiting tables again for a while as I did it all through my undergraduate years and it allows for a very flexible schedule. Hum, well see about that part. As for what I want to study – well everything!!! I already have to BA’s under my belt, and if I had things my way I would just go to school for the rest of my life. I want to go focus on creative writing, religious studies, geography, diet and nutrition, history, international relations, Spanish, really you name it! I also want to continue my studies in anthropology and archaeology – but sort of switch my focus to physical anthropology…Yeah, I know – geez girl…I just love to learn and there are so many things I want to learn. So, that part of my thinking today has come to no solution as yet. But I spent a while on the web looking more into the departments and programs offered at FIU (Florida International University) – as it is the only public school in Miami. I already had the pleasure of obtaining my first four years of college at a private college, and I want to take advantage of such a thing as In State Tuition! Hum, so many questions – but I have no doubt the answers will come in time…No harm in doing a little poking around though.
I realized I need to allow a certain amount of letting go – just take one step at a time – but I am usually not so good at that as I have to plan plan plan…Balance is key right? Learning that concept slowly but surely. For now I know what the next six weeks of my life holds for sure. That’s enough I guess. And in the meantime I am gonna enjoy the days in the present moment – and do just a little contemplation into the near future. (But it’s hard b/c (for instance) if I want to go back to school in January – which I do – then I have to apply by October 1st, and if things work out they way I am hoping, I will still be in India at that time!!!) So, my OCDish thinking is not so overboard right now – although Kwang would disagree. Anyhow- enough thinking for tonight as it is after 10pm and I gotta be up at 4am tomorrow for another very busy day. I have practice in the morning – then another five hour workshop that should end just in time for Guruji’s talk at 4:30pm. Afterwards I am to have dinner with a bunch of the great yogini’s that are here with me in Mysore.
I must say I am truly grateful, as always, at the fact that my problem lies in too many choices as opposed to too few…Too many choices in pretty much every aspect of my life – I think self inflected problem – but that is just me. Sometimes I wonder if I should really narrow my interests more and really focus on one thing…I’ve done that a thousand times, but that’s just not me. I spent four years focusing wholly on Classics, Anthropology and Archaeology – while waiting tables to pay the bills. I’ve spent the last two years of my life focusing entirely on yoga – teaching it, practicing it, learning about as much relating to it as possible. Now, I want to continue my practice and acquirement of knowledge regarding yoga – but I also want to diversify my energy on learning more about other things…Hum, I think I’m just rambling on and on and on. Just one of those days where my mind has been full speed ahead.
On a different note, I can’t believe that I leave a week from tomorrow. I just can’t wrap my mind around the fact I’ve been here nearly three months and I have gotten to spend that time studying with Guruji and Sharath at AYRI. I am really grateful for that, and all the other things I’ve seen, experienced, all the people I’ve met, all the struggles I’ve endured, all the knowledge I’ve gained. Too much…Too much to process and contemplate on now. This moment reminds me of my teacher Paul Dallaghan who, in 2004, told me to go home with all I’d learned and simply allow it time to really sink in. And he was so right – although I didn’t really believe him at the time. Experience, absorb it, and give it the time it needs to make sense to you. OK!
Well, have a wonderful evening and sweet dreams!
Om Shanti,
Krista
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July 23rd, 2006 at 10:08 am
Hi Krista and Kwang! hope you have a wonderful last week in Mysore. I am thinking of you and loved reading your blog.. If you have to time to update me on your progress would love to hear how you are getting on with all your many plans. Good luck with everything and stay well… If you have rosie and peter’s email woudl you send it to me?
loads of love
abbyxxxx
July 23rd, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Hi Krista!
So good to read your blog – I can totally relate to the notion of having so many choices and not quite knowing which one to pick as the “optimal” and/or “most balanced”. I go through that all the time with things in my life. But I agree with your solution – just take things a day at a time and let life unfold for you. I think that’s one of my goals in life – learn to “let go” – it applies to almost everything!!
Be well and enjoy your last week in Mysore!
- Jeff