One week down in Mexico!

Wow! A whole week. It’s a weird feeling of feeling like I’ve been here forever and it only being a week. Forever in a good way. It’s become a form of home. Peaceful and easy.

I can’t believe how much I’ve learned and grown in such a short time either. There’s so much more to Yoga than most see or think.

We weathered a tropical storm mid week, it was great fun. We all had to leave our tents and move to the furthest pavilion from the beach. Our things were bagged and tents were dismantled and tied down with large tarps and such. We had a massive sleepover for two nights and it was a blast. The first night was like being 11 again at a slumber party. Hair braiding, massages, movies. Epic bonding. Night two we made essentially a giant bed and all laughed so hard we got a “noise complaint” (not really) from one of or teachers who thought there was a party going on! What a way to bond 13 people quickly. I suggested they make a sleepover a part of training for bonding purposes. The storm is over and passed and cooled off Baja in the process. The days are still quite warm, but the nights have gotten cooler. We’re all back in our tents and in exciting news I have a new tent, no more bandaid and duct tape tent.

Today we had our half day off. It was great fun to go into the little town about 20 minutes away called Todos Santos. 6 of us went and explored, ate and shopped. I needed hypoallergenic washing detergent and that was an ordeal. After about 30 minutes of searching and attempting to get help or translate bottles on my own and having friends step in who speak Spanish we finally found a bottle hidden behind random stuff. The only one without chemical fragrance being for babies, but hey sensitive skin matters, and of course it was one of the huge multi load bottles. It was only $5 American so I can’t complain too much besides it was heavy to tote around town. Yandara will get a gift of laundry soap when I go. 😂

We went through the little marketplace where locals had goodies to sell. I got some mementos and gifts and was super excited to find that one store had authentic Mexican blankets which we use here in our yoga practice. I was thrilled to find one that called to me in it’s gorgeous color patterns and excited to have one of my own.

I’m absolutely loving it here and I can’t imagine any other place or people to get certified for teaching with. I know I’m making bonds for life and learning so much.

I’m really enjoying the philosophical side to Yoga and being exposed to all the forms it exists in and the various practices. I can’t believe how much I enjoyed kundalini yoga and that I was able to meditate, for me that’s unheard of! I plan to delve into this field further and also that of Bhakti. I do know that I really don’t like Yin yoga, (conveniently we had a 2 hour Yin yoga class tonight 🤦🏼‍♀️😫). While I love understanding the philosophy and practice of Yin & Yang, the actual Yin Asana practice is not my cup of tea. I appreciate learning about it, but I will def not be joining a Yin studio anytime soon. I could teach it I guess, but as long as I don’t have to hold the poses with my students for 5 or more minutes each 😂👎🏻

It’s getting late here and I’m eager to dive into a book I found in the beach pavilion about the chakra system and psychology.

As I limit my time on the web due to being very busy here and unplugging a little, I will hopefully have a new post up in a day or two.

Thanks for reading!Namaste!