Friday, March 4

Friday, March 4

The third member of our "First Class Tour" arrived this morning. After picking her up from the airport and dropping her backpack off at the hotel we ate lunch and headed to "The Museum." The Museum in Trivandrum contains a number of old statues of the many Hindu deities, some beautiful ivory carvings, a section on Buddhist statues, Balinese art and statues, and a small section on Asian statues. There was a yoga festival at the Museum Auditorium but after receiving directions from ten different people we never did find it so we caught a rickshaw and headed back to the hotel. The highlight of the day was a 630 pm yoga practice at a small yoga studio we discovered the previous day. There were six of us in the class. The yoga mats were a type of woven plastic, kinda like a straw mat but plastic. During the hour long class, we practiced various types of breathing exercises, laid down savasana four times, held maybe three other postures, and at the end we did jumping jacks, kicked our right foot into our left hand and then our left foot into our right hand (I actually kept kicking my right foot into my right hand and my left foot into my left hand. I finally figured it out at the end). We did the twist and finally ran around the room in a circle for a bit. Upon returning to our mats we assumed the final relaxation posture. Definitely a different yoga experience. A quick dinner and back to the hotel.