Maximiji got engaged!

... not quite, although that is what a new participant thought when I co-taught my first YES!+ course with Muthu last week ! Ouf, the "Swami" title is still holding for now :)

It has been an amazing week (is there any way to have a dull week when it is filled with YES!+ vibrant enthusiasm?). I realized even more how much knowledge this course contains, and that if you just take one single point and practice it daily it is enough to "save your mind". Teaching this course taught me that I had just began to learn, and that much more is to come on this beautiful journey called life.


We had yoga on the beach at 5:30 on Saturday morning, just before sunrise. It was my first yoga on the beach, and I have to say that I want to repeat this unique experience ASAP! Luckily I am here for 4 more months :) On the last day, right after the course, the participants were challenged to make a food carnival where they would make profit selling the food. Muthu wanted us to come at the "peak" of the event to see how well they did. The problem is we arrived past the peak, with no food left for hungry me to eat :P Fortunately, my "fasting" paid off with long Kriya :)

I am slowly getting Indian, having rice and dahl for breakfast, occasionally not wearing any seatbelt or helmet, dealing with auto-whallas by ending my sentences with "nan" (and slowly losing my proper English vocabulary!), sporting sandals even for work and having great faith in the Divine for everyday challenges! It is amazing how in Quebec we "fight" for having 2 official languages, when there are so many here! One early morning I was riding behind someone on a bike when he asked if the roads where all empty like this in Canada :) Finally, I learned my first sentence in Tamil this week, with great effort. Guess what it is? Hint: we are supposed to use it sparingly with only our dear ones ..