Its been a few days but that's because life in an ashram is pretty monotonous and writing about a routine is not necessarily interesting. Writing about how the routine is driving you slightly crazy is ever so much more interesting.
Life in the ashram follows a very strict routine. Our schedule starts at 6:00 with meditation and chanting, this is followed by our asana class until 10. At 10 we get brunch. Apparently its a good thing to do exercise when your stomach is rumbling. for some reason my tummy rumbles at the quietest time in the class. I guess its waiting for the opportune moment to let me know its dissatisfied. Then we have lectures and free time which I generally find I spend sleeping (5:30 wake up is rough). We then have class from 4-6, once again when we're at our hungriest. (its now 6 and my tummy is HUNGRY!) then come 8 we have meditation and chanting again.
So that's the basic schedule. I have decided that as soon as I leave the ashram I will never again chant anything of any kind unless my life depended on it, and maybe not even then. Ever had a song stuck in your head that you couldn't get out and its haunted you all day and perhaps all night? Wil there gets a point when it finally goes away. Over here that's not possible, wee chant the same song every night and every morning of every day. Its a repeat after me chant so every single line is related twice, some of them are repeated more times just for the hell of it. I'm actually going crazy repeating these songs (or I should probably say lines) in my head. I don't understand how chanting us relaxing. For me its like a recurring nightmare, twice a day and haunts my entire day!
On a more positive note, I did a head stand today all by myself
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