Sacred space

In case you were wondering, here is the plan: fly to Hyderabad, India for the week. Business meetings for Larry. Liz explores the city with a guide to find the essence of this amazing place. This includes yoga with a teacher who has studied directly with TKV Desikachar, author of “The Heart of Yoga”, a wonderful book about vinyasa yoga and Krishnamacharya, who is considered the father of vinyasa and is the teacher of Iyengar and K. Pattabhi Jois (Ashtanga yoga). I also hope to have some Ayurvedic treatments with Ayurvedic doctors that look weird, scary and wonderful-Ayurveda is the sister science of yoga, and looks to treat the cause of disease rather than the symptoms. Lastly, major shopping expeditions!
Then off to South India,Kerala to get out of the city and into the mountains and backwaters. I won’t tell you too much- you will have to wait for more India adventures as they occur!

So, onward with the journey. Arrived in London to be grounded again due to no flights to Hyderabad on Sundays. No problem! I love London! Hop on the Heathrow Express and the tube(London underground) just in time to attend a service at Westminster Abbey. Sat in the front row where worship has happened daily for 1000 years. Talk about sacred space. Behind and all around this main altar are tombs of many of Englands kings and queens, poets and statesmen. I imagined them all seated around us in their different centuries of dress praying with us. Then I closed my eyes and the organ playing felt as though it resonated right through my heart space. It felt similiar to the crystal chakra bowls Val and Ian play for us.it was very moving to be in such a sacred space.
After the service we walked to the London Eye. This is a huge ferris wheel with capsules built to celebrate the millenium. I remember seeing it and wondering what idiot would possibly want to be suspended up over the Thames river 443 feet into the sky! Well, that idiot was me, enjoying an incredible and surreal nighttime view of London! You feel suspended over the city- the Eye only moves .85 feet a second. It felt very stable and safe , but I have to admit I did not lean on the sides! There was a family with 2 toddlers in with us who joyfully ran around and layed on the floor to gaze out the glass sides of the capsule . No fear at all!

Today we fly to India. Time zones dictate that when we are awake you will be sleeping and we will already be in the next day! I love the idea of time traveling and I invite you to come along. One of my students told me that your first trip to India changes you. It is a little scary to let go of the comfortable space that you are in and change! I am ready though, and look forward to the inner and outer journey. Until we meet again.