so today is sunday, for me just like any day it feels like now a days. 

I woke up, went out with the girls.
then off to my yogaclass at the gym, on the way there I got a call and talked to the european ashram I have contacted about a teacher course a Swami will have there in august.
so luckely I now have a spot at that 10day intensive course : )
so I have to look now for tickets etc to get there somehow ha ha

at the class today was only 12 participants, so it is slowly becomming less as usual when we come closer to the summer. next week is last time before summer break for my class there, I wont teach at the summer schedule there since I want to have a month off for holiday & to get some yoga inspiration for my self hopefully.

after class I went back home and ate a brunchtye of meal since no beakfast. then I semi watched the first of 3 soccer world cup games, that match was so sleepy that I ended up trimming my angels at the same time, they really needed it..
and now when summer, heat and theese nasty ticks come it is better to have their fur a bit shorter.

then just being at home relaxing and watching the much better second game of todays world cup.

at the same time finding some interesting info about this text that will be focused on at the course in august. read the blog before this one for example ha ha

so in less then 2 weeks I will go to Greece to arrange my yogaholiday there for the 14+2 persons how will attend this year, then probably home just for a day and then me & A will travel to India for 2,5weeks, the norht part.
so that is gonan be interesting for many reasons, weather [super hot & monsoon period], people [a huge festival so I hpe we will get rooms etc since millions of pilgrims will go to this holy cities to get water from ganges or something like that and of course to see if can find any good inspiring yoga & "theory" lectures there.

so I need to look all together for 6 airplane tickets now...
my bank account is so gonna be on minus using the bank credit, but in the end it will all be worth it - I just feel that in my stomach..
gonna try to onnect with some yoga connections & business connections in India t see if they can halp with findning accomondation etc. might be a good idea..

back to watching the 3-rd and best soccer world cup game today : )

I was searching around internet and found some about an old vedic text, one of the texts amongs 3 main ones about the principes of HathaYoga. 

this certain text/tradition/way emphasasis more towards the cleansing techniques "shatkarmas" or "kriyas" it seams.
and it is not the 8 steps as patanjalis "yogasutras"
[wich seams actually to be more of the mental aspects of older yoga compared to the more physical HathaYoga we in some kind of way do today]
but instead it follow 7 steps/limbs..
interesting.

anyway..
one of the cleansing methods under the tread "dhauti" - wich mainly focuses [with a few exceptions] on the digestive system.

one of the more unusual methods that I found was:

Bahiskrita dhauti
This is a very difficult practice unless you are an advanced hatha yogi. It involves standing navel deep in clean water, pushing the rectum out and washing it in the hands.

in one of the texts it says "It is not easily available even to the gods"...

strangely I couldn't find a picture of this?!?!
but maybe this sadhu has just done it, hi looks so proud ha ha

so now also in the newspaper yesterday about the sad fact that this yogi dissapearing with all the money and many actually apparently didn't know it was "cancelled"?..
it says he probably got away with about 1 million swedish kronors..
I hope everyone reports him to the police,
since now he is not a yogi anmore but just a drugaddict and a thief...
so sad...

here is the article [in swedish]
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article7284097.ab

time runs by so quickly, it is only 18 days until the yoga holiday that I arrange in crete island in Greece starts.

  

I have booked the whole hotel for only us, so that is great!
it is a smaller place with 9 rooms, all with sea view.the yoga holiday is fully booked this year aswell, great that so many find this trip interesting, and of course it has got a lot to do with former participants have been promoting it so much since so far [ths is the third year] everyone has been really satisfied.

  
during the day everyone is free to do what they want, relax by the pool, take a strole, read a book under the olive tree's, take a swim in a nearby local bay or head to the famous beach of elafonissos.in the early evening we do activity nr 2, wich is mostly yogaclass, but one day we do meditation in the sunset a bit higher up so you can see the whole neighborhood and the vally when watching the sun going down over the horizon.

this year there is 14 participating yogis/yoginis and 2 "extras" so quit a group!

they arrive tuesday evening where we maybe will do a short 15min "after flight yoga asana routine" then we have the relaxed wellcome meze dinner.
the whole week my mum & younger brother Michalis will cook local vegitarian dishes for the gang, this food has every year been a succés with I think everyone..

from wednesday there is 2 activities everyday, each morning we do yogapractice at 07am during the sunrise, then a nice breakfast at the tavern.

the classes will be held on elafonissos beach or a more local beach if the wind is the slow and the right direction, we also do practice by the pool and if very windy on the terass of the taverna.

then after watching the sunset  taking a shower etc we end the evening with a relaxed dinner and maybe some herbal tea.

  
then of to bed quit early to get up for the 07am yoga next day again.

this place is not among the tourist villages, this much is further out and here it is very calm and not to much to do wich is perfect to get that extra calmness during this week for the ones attending this yoga holiday.

looking forward to it!

sadly after some romours it seems official..
a while ago I wrote about the struggle an quit recognized yoga teacher had with his life, and that he went for treatment etc

then I heard he came back and quit quick so that surprized me a bit.
not to much more I thought he came back to normal but it seemed he had let go of his yoga studio and so on.
my guess he was not ready to leave where ever he was to get back on track, maybe it can be that since the personal problems I have heard of has gone to a situation where it is so far gone that manipulation and cheating others is a part of the behaviour?
I dont know just spekulating and from things I have heard from people that I think know quit a bit about this..

so this yogi is yearly arranging a major festival each summer and this was suppose to be the 10 year anniversary aswell, and it is on one of the famous swedish holiday islands in the south.

now I read today that the former co-organizer has made a small other festival maybe to try to please the ones who had looked forward to the originl festival?
because sadly what I have heard the yogi has "disappeared" with all the money people have paid as the fee for attending this big festival.
I have no idea about all the teacher that was hired for this event but I guess they have got no payment either since it seams now official that the festival is cancelled.

I just hope it all solves and the yogi gets a grip of himself, not is it of course bad and sad, but for me it is quit remarkablehow someone living as a yogi, what I have heard a passionate teacher and for so many years can turn and instead be so far opposite even to the grade of taking money from others and fake arranging a new festival and disappeare with their savings that they in trust have paid for up to 2 weeks inspiration in the yogic lifestyle by many teachers etc.
It sounds like that whole yogic life has just been a lie?
and had not ment to much if after so many years can switch so quickly..

weird!

I dont know, I try not to judge since I actually not know all details,
but I feel sad for the ones paid money and now wont get the inspiration they have been longing for and on top of that probably not gonna be able to get their money back?

and of course for "yoga" this is very sad..

I know "live as you teach" is often hard, but this is beyond anything I have heard before...
but yoga today is truly business, especially here in the west world.

anyway, good luck to all of you misstreated individuals and also sending some hope to a yogi in need of getting back to reality, to the humble way of living and treating others.

AUM Shanti