Hot

Wow it's hot. I looked at the temperature in the pavilion before we left for dinner, and it was showing 32 C - then I went out and it was actually hotter out there. Even when we're at the mountains there's hardly any breeze, it's pretty gorgeous.

I love the noble silence we preserve in the mornings. I don't think most people would have anything intelligent to say anyway, and it just cuts off unnecessary chitchat... we make our way to the pavilion, then proceed with the meditation and pranayama, and practice. And even having breakfast in silence is fantastic... most of the stuff that I feel like saying is "wow, you took lot of that bread" or "I'm starving". Idle, eh?

Food is the big topic, no doubt. Even when we're eating, we're just talking about food... the food we're eating, food we've eaten, food we should be eating, food we shouldn't be eating. Starbucks... we talk about Starbucks a lot. There is coffee available, and people take a cup in the morning - but maybe it's one of those familiar and common things that strangers talk can about. We talk surprisingly little about yoga. With my teacher gang yoga is almost all we talk about - maybe here our free time is so consumed by yoga that we don't have the urge to talk about it over dinner too.

Me and couple of other people also took a tour of with the estate manager Ron this afternoon - Ron showed us some of the sustainability part of the retreat center, mainly we had the time to see the energy production that they have going on. They take water from two springs further up on the mountain, and use it to produce pretty much all the energy that they need - and we have all the modern amenities including hot running water and lights, there is a washing machine but no dishwasher (that's one of the ways they can easily conserve power and water by using manpower). It was very interesting, later on in the week Ron promised to show us the recycling and sanitation facilities they have.