Above (L-R) bottom Uni (Indonesia), top ManYee (Honk Kong Chinese living in Australia), Jill (Australia), Chere, Kathleen (Milwaukee) & Rachel (Israel) at the sign in front of RIMYI

Here’s a better daytime photo of the display at the front of RIMYI with your favorite blogging yogi. The first photo of me in my yoga clothes was taken this morning before the 9:30am class.

This second photo was taken this afternoon. My friend Pash and I were walking by the Institute and saw they affixed some lotus flowers at each corner of the base and placed some plants around it so we thought we’d take photos of each other. Pash went first and as she walked over to the monument, the guard stopped her and said “no shoes.” Ooops! The photo I took in the morning clearly shows me wearing shoes. I suppose the good thing is that I saw one of the workers later in the day hosing off the platform, so I’m sure he cleaned off all my (& everyone else’s) icky shoe gunk. I am a little ashamed of myself, but I’m going to practice letting go. There … all gone.

Oh look. Another cow. It must be eating trash in the street or licking up petro or something interesting like that. There’s always a cow in this area and I’m convinced I keep taking pictures of the same cow. 

And another surprise (pardon the “drive by shot”) – goats. Lots and lots of them.

I know you’ve been worried about my safety, so considering my dad was a fireman, I felt the need to look into the fire safety in our building. It’s reassuring to know this Fire Alarm Panel looks fairly new and maybe even works. Let’s hope we don’t have to find out. I wonder if I can hear that ground floor speaker on the 9th floor … ?? Not to fret, I’m getting really good at running down the stairs.

Geeta taught the ladies 9:30am class again this morning. We spent a great deal of time in Virabhadrasana 1, arms up. For those of you non-yogi types, this means hard work. We moved into Virabhadrasana 2 (more hard work), Ustrasana (did someone say “hard work”) and then standing backbend without dropping back. That was about the extent of what we worked on for TWO hours. Geeta helped a fairly large man with Ustrasana (camel pose). We all learned so much from the adjustments she gave, the entire class gave an ovation to the progress he made.

I feel fortunate.

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