What A Magical Place...

Dana: Sorry it has been so long since I last posted on here. I'm more of the photographer type than the writer anyway =)

We have two days left in the yoga program and I'm getting sad to think about leaving this "life" we've created for ourselves. It has been a month since we arrived to Koh Phangan, Thailand. We've rented motor bikes, a house, explored the island, cooked meals in our own kitchen, gone swimming as much as possible, snorkeled, boated, ate delicious food, drank smoothies, read, did yoga for hours, slept, laughed, danced, learned, listened, sweated, taken days of silence, vamana dhauti (don't ask unless you really want to know), sanka praksalana (the cheapest colonic you can self administer), swam underneath the stars at night, ate only brown rice for days (macrobiotic diet), explored new fruits, got lost, sweated, danced at a bollywood party, got pulled over by cops (can't tell you why, but we got away), found the post office, tipped over on motorbike, ate more, drank more smoothies, jumped off a lookout tower in the ocean, hugged every morning, swallowed salt water, got salt water up the bum, took a sun bath, fell asleep in savasana, held yoga poses for 8 mins, found limes, dined at the open-air night market, picked up sea cucumbers, deeted, ran in the rain, massaged each others hands in class, sweated more, meditated, laughed, read in bed, read poems to each other in bed, listened to the rain pouring down from the heavens, scraped our tongues together in the morning, danced naked in the bedroom, danced at the fullmoon party, sipped on mushroom shakes at Mellow Mountain, got inspired, yelled at our dog Max for barking in the middle of the night, thought about killing the roosters that crow at all hours of the day, sweated more, scared our neighbors into thinking we were practicing witchcraft because of the baby powder trail surrounding our kitchen door to keep ants out, meditated on ping-pong balls out on the porch (which probably convinced the neighbors even more), spent hours in internet cafes, cooked with coconut milk in EVERYTHING, watched heat lightening strike over the ocean at night, played with phosphorescence in the ocean, skyped with our mommies and dear friends, explored new beaches, drank tea at the Art Cafe, played cards, ate more food, laughed more and best of all met some of the most amazing people and started some friendships that will last a life time.

The people you meet when you attend a program like this are such incredible human beings and I am honored to have shared the intimacy of practicing yoga next to them for the past month. It will be sad parting ways, but this is not goodbye...it's "until we meet again..."and we will, I promise!

5 more weeks...

Vietnam here we come!!!