Blissed out in Bali!

Bali Spirit Festival...do it! If you ever get the chance it is amazing! The last two days have been blissed out awesome-ness, despite the not so amazing living accommodations, which comes with many free friends (spiders, cockroaches, lizards....that's all I've seen so far...)
What's life like, well, I'm so chilled out and lovin' life that I don't even care that I sleep with bugs!!!!! Ah, it's not that bad!!!!! We have running water now, so I have managed to bathe, which is fantastic, because in Bali every yoga class is a hot yoga class!!! The rooms are a bit on the nasty side, it looks like it was an incredibly cute place about 50 years ago and that nothing has been done since then....and it's Indonesia, so.....yeah! It wouldn't be so bad if the bugs here were normal size, but they're all on steroids I think!!!! Anyway, it's all good, I will appreciate the sketchy two-starness of Langkawi even more next week!!!!! You get what you pay for rears it's ugly head again!!!! Adrienne - it's like the place in the mountains in Cuba....maybe 1 star better than that, but without Carlos it hardly seems worth it!!!!
Ok, so yoga! Well, I really want to give up everything in life and teach yoga in a random country and live wherever and make peace with the giant bugs!!!! I started Friday morning sans coffee or food, in an Anusara class, which taught me that what I think of as "hard" in yoga, is nothin'! I sweat for hours!!!!! The classes are all 2 hours long, Ansuara was amazing and challenging and I was doing handstands and elbow stands and a million backbends!!!! Then I stayed for an incredibly crazy session in which I did things that I didn't think were possible! I can reach my arms around my body in insane ways....it's a whole new kinda bendy! After that a lunch break and then a session with the most amazing incredible wicked yoga teacher Mark Whitwell...he was trained by Krishnamacharya in India in the 70s and has travelled the world teaching yoga. Blew my mind!!!!! After a shuttle ride back to the dungeon for a shower we had some dinner and went back out with the rest of the gang for the music, which was again, awesome!
Day two was today, and I am so sore....anyone who says yoga is not work is not working hard enough!!!! I am feeling every single part of my body, even the teeniest tiniest muscles! And yet, I decided to start my day with Hot Apple Flow!!!! It was amazingly great with an awesome teacher from the UK, but after that I decided to re-think the rest of my days' plan because I was not feelin' it!!!! I skipped the Prana Flow and went to Gentle Hatha instead, and I think I may have fallen asleep a few times from the chillness of it all! After another amazing lunch (ginormous falafle sandwich!) I went to a Learn to Love your Hips class and fell in love! So blissed out at the end....it was Forrest Yoga - look it up, if you like my yoga classes you will love this!!!! So many abs and hips and so much release and so much happiness at the end! Bliss!!!! Then I stuck around for a Tea and Talk with Mark Whitwell, Eoin Finn (Canadian!) and others about Adapting Yoga to the Modern Era. It was so great to be in a room of yogis, new and old, who share the same thoughts as me....we talked about the Westernization of yoga, how it's different from the real-deal and if that is ok....so cool!!!!
And that was that! I know you want to hear about travel adventures....not to worry, the travelling fun starts again tomorrow! It's a free day at the yoga retreat, so the whole gang is coming for 108 sun salutations, and then I'm going to do a music session, reggae for yoga and a discussion of the effects of music on practice. Perhaps some African drumming to end off the day, then back to the hood for one last amazing Bali dinner before the long ride and long flight back to Malaysia! Monday morning Das is fetching us at 10am to fly to Langkawi, which is only an hour long flight, and then it's back to the beach for this gal! It's also a duty-free island, so there may perhaps be a party or two in my future!!!
More to come soon, and if I'm feelin' ambitious on Monday morning I'll go post some pics at starbucks before my flight, but probably not.....
That's all folks! Off to have a drink while I wait for the peeps to get back from the beach....I would love to go back and chill in my room, but in the quietness I can hear the creepy crawlies!!!!!!!!!
Lovin' Bali....Blissed out....Peace!