Did you know that ducks, geese, swans and apparently yogis are part of the same family? Anatidae.
Here is Chris, doing Hamsasana with Padmasana feet. Swan pose…
Yoga
London
London is definitely one of my favorite cities. I remember the first time I went there to visit Chris, I was amazed by the colorfulness of it; the parks, flowers, rows and rows of houses with different color doors, musicals. It was love at first sight really, despite the cold and rain in the middle of July. After we moved to the US, we still kept going to London on our way to/from Istanbul to visit my family. We recently realized we hadn’t been back for a few years so finally when we had a week off, we decided to spend it in London.
We had an amazing time. Chris taught a few classes while we were there; one for teachers, and two public workshops. They all went great and we met some wonderful people. We also hung out with friends and generally just enjoyed the city. We even took a cooking class at Recipease (Jamie Oliver’s cooking school)!
After a week in London, we went to Zurich for Immersion III, and headed back to London for one more night on the way to Vancouver. For that night, I had bought tickets to see Billy Elliot. When we were going through passport control at Heathrow, the officer asked us how long we’re staying and we told him just one night due to our flight schedule and that we thought we would see the musical while we’re there. He said his wife got the DVD for the movie and he could only stand 3.5 minutes of it and that he hated it! He said “if it doesn’t have guts or blood, it’s not for me!” =) Well, I guess there is something for everyone… We had really enjoyed the movie and we absolutely loved the musical!
We are now in Vancouver and we are about to start a palate test. We each bought some secret ingredients today and we’ll taste and try to figure out what they are. Blindfolded of course. We’ll keep you posted on the results.
Public Classes
Happy happy happy
Chris is teaching some public classes this month at the two Cihangir Yoga locations. He hadn’t done this in a while, so he is very excited about them. You can find further info here:
www.cihangiryoga.com
Vancouver
We got to a rainy Vancouver on Sunday night. We are definitely not packed for the weather. Weather forecasts really deceived us this time. Although today it does look better. Haven’t been outside yet.
Chris has been working on streamlining some of his lecture notes and the homework. He keeps telling me “I think I should reduce the amount of homework.” My only response to that is: I think your students will love you more.
He’s been in this position for hours now:
New York, New York
I think Chris is finally starting to like New York…
We’re staying in SoHo at a hotel called Cooper Square Hotel. Our dear friend Deborah connected us with the manager here and they gave us a great room on the 16th floor. Views are priceless here.
We came in on Wednesday evening and our first order of business was to go to a yoga class at Virayoga. It’s the best way to get over the jet lag quickly. We took a wonderful class with Zhenja. She worked on the neck and it was the best thing for the pain I’ve had in my neck for a while now. And no, the pain in my neck is an actual physical pain.
The next day we took Elena’s class at noon and what a treat!
We spent the rest of the day getting used to our iPads. 😀 Can you see the grin on my face?!?
Right now Chris is getting ready for the workshop tomorrow, and I’m testing out the new blogging desktop app that I just downloaded. It’s called Ecto, and it seems to work pretty good so far…