Cacao Ceremony!! Today I woke with a wonderful energy and just as the sun came through the window of our room I felt the need to arise. I received a very special email from my sister lastnight and this morning I got the opportunity to email her and the rest of my family. Today there is no classes but I decided to go and do some meditation and yoga and see if I could follow my own routine without the teacher. The meditation was brilliant and although I drifted in ...

Day 5 Hridaya Yoga!! Upon waking this morning I tried something new I have been learning: Immune Booster - basically it involves a form of meditation where you put your concentration first on parts of the body and eventually on the whole body. I did this whilst laying in bed and realized that I had many thoughts about getting up, eating breakfast - an old mental thought probably related to my bodybuilding days - something I will need to let go of. The meditation ...

Day 4 Hridaya Yoga!! I woke up today with the sun around 6am feeling quite wonderful and after my morning porridge, checking emails and a little reading it was time for class. First up we went straight into our meditation with a focus on our heart centre - amazingly I was able to hold my position much better today and realize the minds sneaky attempts to lure me away from non-thinking. At one point during meditation a huge happiness came over my body and a smile ...

Day 3 Hridaya Yoga!! I woke around 4am this morning and had a lot of trouble getting back to sleep again - haven't quiet learned how to quiet my mind yet. So the start of the day was a bit of a test with many thoughts, anxiousness and senses coming over me. The meditation started and today we focused on the hearts centre: concentrating on the spot just to right of the heart centre- I found this incredibly difficult and really struggled to keep my mind from wonder...

Hridaya Yoga Day 2!! My mind was full of thought lastnight but I still managed to sleep having learned to seperate myself from my thoughts. Meditation started at 9am and we went straight into our 7s breathing meditation: at first my mind was quiet and still but as we progressed further my mind wondered further and further. The second meditation involved finding our awareness space and dwelling it which seem to be easy at first but as we continued got harder and h...