forgot so much....

i forgot to tell you guys so much last time :)

at the kumbh mela festival in haridwar we spent like 3 hours sitting with the babas (the holy men) and they made us tea and we just talked and stared at each other alot.  they live off of donations from the people and do blessings and go to all of the festivals and travel around, its the life.  they also showed us this special passport that they have where they can go anywhere in the world.  crazy.  most of them had crazy dreadlocks and they LOVED megans, they called her lady baba the whole time. it was so cute.  one of the guys took his down and they were all the way to his feet!!! he has only cut his hair 4 times in his life.  so crazy!!!  it was quite the experience.

also i wanted to talk a little bit about the roads here......try to imagine all of this going on while you are driving down the street, keep in mind that passing and driving in the other lane is totally acceptable for long periods of time, so basically it feels like everyone is headed for a head on collision and just swerving out of the way all the time.  meanwhile there are many other factors: trucks with loads tied to them that are 2 times the size of the truck itself, many cows goats dogs and other animals, people crossing, motorcycles with whole families of 4 or 5 on them, auto-rickshaws with 30 people overflowing out of them, horse drawn carriages, tractors, carts pulled by water buffalo with loads of various things such as a huge pile of bricks, oh also there are tons of people on bicycles that look like they were build in the 1800's.  oh yeah and i forgot that many of the trucks and cars breakdown (can you imagine?) in the middle of the road and so you would be going really fast and than have to stop all of a sudden because of a truck blocking the entire road.  makes for interesting travel i guess :)

another interesting thing thats been going on in my life......i have not been feeling well the past 4/5 days and we've been staying at the ashram.  thankfully our yoga guru also happens to be a natural healing master and so to cure my diarrhea he told me to lay down on this bench outside and he pressed on my stomach to feel my pulse in there,  he said that i had a dislocation of some part of my stomach.  so he pulled on my right leg 3 times, than massaged my stomach in a circle and than felt for the pulse again, he said it was coming back to the center.  than i flipped over and he assisted me in doing floor bow yoga pose and than something else and than checked again. he said its getting better and to come back in the morning at 8 with an apple.  so i said ok. i went back and laid on the same bench, outside the ashram looking over the ganga.  he felt the pulse and said that it was still problem.  so he put this mud pie made from the ganga on my stomach and than a clay pack on my eyes.  i layed there for a long time than he came and did the massage and the exercises again.  crazy!!!  he seems to be so knowledgeable and it makes me really interested to learn in natural medicine.....first i will test it out and see if i feel better before i start studying :) 

the yoga is good here, different but it is good.  our yoga guru does the craziest poses and he just smiles when we try because he knows he is so flexible and advanced.  he is sweet and he just says slowly slowly it will come. 

pictures coming soon, internet is crazy here!