Melancholy, not so much...

was my last conference with Sharath. I'll be here next Saturday but he will be registering the folks coming in for the new month.

I sat on the stage again this week as I liked that I could hear so well last week, but this week it was especially worth it because he gave a demo.

Last week he had talked at length about the benefits of the primary series and especially the inversions in the closing sequence. So this morning he began by talking about how he notices many of us are doing sirsasana wrong, and proceeded to give a demo of it and of several from the intermediate series and how they are different. It was nice.

But besides the demo, he led into questions almost immediately after and they yielded the best conference I've yet been to in these three months, maybe in the last trip as well. Well, maybe the best one was where he sang and I cried. But today I found resonation with many aspects of things he talked about and teared up, especially when he talked about one of his authorized teachers whom I happen to like very much as a person, and how far he's come in his practice. The person he was talking about teared up and so it made me tear up, he's so devoted to our guru, it was lovely to see.

He also told many stories about guruji and his experiences with him and with pain in the practice. All were great to hear since so many of us are going through many things, psychological, emotional or physical.

This is in no way a conference notes post, I will share a few others later in the week from those who are better at that. Also, this is in no way a blog about how I'm feeling from the conference because I've not integrated all of it yet, so I will be writing quite a bit more about it and maybe some throughout the whole week as it's my last full week of practice and on Monday I have an appointment with Sharath, so that should yield some stuff as well. It's just me getting the froth off the top of the mug of cappuccino so that I can get to the good stuff.

So expect more, maybe tonight or maybe tomorrow, but soon...