Imagine a monkey.  Not the sedate or bored but the whiskey-jugging type.

 

Now sit still for 5 minutes.  Focus on your breathing and watch your thoughts.  Did you recognize the drunken monkey?

 

For the past 4 weeks we were drilled with yogic techniques to reign in our drunken monkeys with chanting,

It’s been a pretty uneventful 3rd week at the ashram.  The ashram sits on a hill with a dam on one side and a valley of towns on the other side.  There is an ongoing battle of the speakers at the valley and they’ve been at it for 3 weeks now.  The valley is dotted with hindu temples and christian

    Notwithstanding waking up at 4:30 every morning, breathing exercises for 1 hour and holding poses for more than 5 minutes,  I am growing and learning a lot at the ATTC.  My favorite are the lectures on Vedanta Philosophy, “a system of thought which preaches the unity of existence or oneness of

I will miss you Bruno.  Thank you for the love.

 

The last time Paul and I visited Bruno, we sang and danced to this Filipino song.

 

DAHIL SA'YO

 

Dahil sa ‘yo (Because of you)
Nais kong mabuhay (I want to live)
Dahil sa ‘yo (Because of you)
Hanggang mamatay (for the rest of my life)

Kung tunay man

Sivananda Ashram, Neyyar Dam

 

    I arrived at the Sivananda Ashram in Neyyar Dam, Trivandrum, India on February 10  and plunged into ashram life almost immediately.  Rising at 4:30 a.m. everyday to prepare for 1 hour of yogic breathing exercises or Pranayama, two hours of chanting or Satsang, two