Yoga In the Jungle

After the long days of trekking that made my legs all stiff and sore, I knew that a nice relaxing Yoga retret was in Order. I head up to Pokhara with my new bud Alessandro who would join me at the Yoga retreat just a day after arriving back to Kathmandu from the trek. The Yoga retreat was Exactly what i needed! It was a hidden away oasis, a good hike out of town in the lush trees surrounded by nature. Each Day was routine but the Yoga and the People were always changing..
My day would look something like this
5:45 wake up
6:00 Meditation
Nature Walk
Nose Cleanse (pouring warm salty water from one nostril through the other)
8:30 Yoga
9:30 Breakfast
10:30 Steam or Mud bath (cleanse and detoxify our skin)
Free time (AKA SUNTANNING)
12:00 Meditation
1:00 Lunch
Free Time (AKA MORE SUNTANNING)
3:30 Optional Karma Yoga (doing Chores basically)
4:00 Tea and Popcorn
4:30 Chanting/Singing
5:30 Yoga
7:00 Dinner

It was a packed schedule but it was perfect! The Family that run the place were amazing people and the Food they made was flippin fantastic! It was all vegitarian, organic homemade food and each meal blew me away..
The Yoga was great, each class was different from the last some pretty funny aswell where we had to practice laughing for 10 minutes.
The Meditation we practiced was where we would sit for an hour and could not move. We would repeat the Mantra OM than follow later on by repeating So Hum in our heads concentrating on our breathing. I had a hard time silencing my always wandering mind so i would sing the other mantra's i have learnt during chanting in my head to stay focused. There are so many differnt forms of meditation and I am hoping to discover differnt ways. My absolute favorite part of the day was Chanting, another form of meditation. We all sat around a circle with a drum and would sing repetative Mantra's with our eyes closed, Belting them out loud and proud. It was Liberating! If my family is reading this you guys better get ready for a chanting session when i get back home!
I Loved every minute of the 10 days I spent there... well actually apart from the dreadful cleanse that i did.
I fasted for 2 days only eating a apple each meal. This part was surprisingly easy and enjoyable, it was the 3rd day that was hell..
Me and the other girl joining me on the cleanse had to drink cup after cup of salty warm water, do some excercises and than drink more water. This repeated until a little knock came down in the rear end where we would run to the toilet. I will spare you the gory details but we ended up drinking 20 cups of salty water, did 10 sets of excercises and went to the bathroom more times than i can remember until everything that came out was clear as Pee...
Sorry, but when you travel you just dont care anymore about holding back the toilet talk to anyone, It becomes everyday conversation.
So now i am Fully refreshed, vitalized and cleansed inside and out before I take off on my adventures to China and Tibet!