An inspiring day

Hello hello,
Today I woke up, at the Sivanada Ashram in Neyardam near Trivanadrum, Southern India, not feeling motivated to partake in the morning meditation and chanting. But I did and we went on a nice meditative walk around the lake and watched the sun come up over some really jagged looking mountains. Later I was feeling quite anxious and I think still a bit tired so I decided to lay down but also grabbed a book I got out from the library about Amma. Amma is the guru of the Ashram that I said I was going to checkout in my last post but I haven't yet. I started reading about her and I really connected with the story. Getting energy from the miracles occuring in her life, realizing how I've become rather pesimistic about the level of spirituality in the modern day Indian person, and the resistance I have to spiritual devotion. The energy in my body was really strong and I just wanted to keep reading. So I did. Resulting in missing the lecture of the day which I felt was really okej. Still feeling very present and energiezed I headed for Yoga and got there early so I waited in meditation. The energy in my body came back and was really strong. Perhaps the strongest I've ever felt and I had the erge to try to levitate. I was laying on my back for the meditation and I lifed up my legs, hands, head, back and torso. That's for sure, but I don't know if I really lifted up my remaining pelvic area.
The Yoga began and I was still feeling strong energy, very calm, and very guided by what I'm starting to really feel is my "self" or the universe. During the Yoga I realized that I could hold my breath for much longer durations. In an exercise where we hold our breath I usually have trouble holding it the whole time however this time I had no problem at all. I felt like I could hold my breath forever. I tried exhaling all my breath (usually you take a deep inhalation) and then reframed from breathing for the time duration and I almost made it. But I didn't. However, I still believe that this was quite amazing.
And since the yoga I've been feeling really calm and present. During dinner I found out that there is an ashram in Kamloops, really close to my home town, that is highly recommended and just ONE moment ago a really nice women walked into the internet room and gave me a t-shirt from the Ashram store which is exactly the one that I was huming and hawing about buying!
I hear you universe!

During my time in India and as I look back on multiple other times in my life I'm really having some powerful experiences that I am now suspecting are spiritual. It's inspiring.

So since my last blog entry I went to a small town in Kerala called Kochin where I took my first yoga class. It was calming, strengthinging, small (only three people in the class), trust involving (the yoga teacher really pushed us), and encouraging for further yoga practise. Moran, my friend from Israel that I met at Sadhana Forest and with whom I went to the Zen Meditation center, and I then went to Alleppey with a German girl and had some really intense discussions. I found myself being a mediator and using a lot of energy to focus on truely listening and understanding. It was very thought provoking and I was generally happy with my role and abilities in the disscusion.(I want to develop my mediating and communication skills because I've been feeling that people really don't understand eachother in a lot of conversation). We also traveled by row boat through the back waters, which consists of many small and a few big kanals. Many of the houses along the sides of the kanals were very close to flooding and a couple already were. Why? Yeah it's Monsoon season here. There's been some really heavy rains and I don't have a rain jacket. However I made a rain cover/jacket out of a abandoned tarp. Wah hoo!
Then we headed (Moran and I, the german girl went another way, her name was Fredrika) to the Sivananda Ashram, where I am now, and have been doing yoga twice a day. I'm really enjoying it and have moved to the intermediate class. Body is feeling worked hard but I think it is okej. Meeting really nice people and playing some great music. The food is fantastic and low quantity (which is great because I've been eating too much lately) and to stay at the ashram is really inexpensive.
Life is good.
How about you?
Love,
Kelly