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Looks like my friend Christine has made a sucessful start to her yoga teaching path here in Montreal.

She hasn't quite been here 2 months and she is subbing 3 classes a week for Darby.

I'd say that's a pretty good record...

Time to make an effort to see her...perhaps next thursday night...

Can't make it tomorrow, we're going to Colin's birthday dinner.
I think I heard him say he was going to be fifty!!??
Naaaah..can't be

to our very dear friend Colin...

with the know-how
with the wood
and the metal WOW
with the be-here-now
with the vow
of brilliance
of work in the Tao
too hip for high-brow
Colin...thou art that...
Now!

Loren's image on the card

Did a drop in class with Itay tonight, and now I have split toes.
I've gone and interrupted what was a pretty good string of morning practices, as I'll have to let the toe heal.
I even started the class with tapped toes.

It was an improv class...he made it up as he went...not so fond of that sort of thing. When teachers announce that it's an improv class I suspect they a bit too much in their own ego...if they survey the class and people indicate they want something else, then that's ok with me.

It was a bit much when he read a Rumi poem during rest/sivasana.
Nice message...though Rumi is so romantic and passionate...it felt creepy...like he was trying to come off as mystical and seductive all at the same time. eeesh.

Thursday night I dropped in to see Christine at Darby's new shala. Well...he and Shankara have had Saatva up and running for quite a while now...so perhaps some would say it's not new any more. It is a very nice place...and getting nicer.

It was great to see Christine. She's been in mtl for several months now and this is really the first time we've hooked up. Had a bite to eat after class, we went for Thai food...was a very nice treat.

2 90 minute yoga sessions in 1 week was quite a bit for me.
[contrasted against 20 minutes in the am 3-4 times a week] Felt like I'd been in a gang-fight...everypart of my body was tender and ached. It was fantastic.

I've come to realize that if I'm going to sign up for that week-long intensive with Hart this fall, I'd better get the lead out and step up the level of daily...and extended or vigorous sessions...otherwise it'll be a bit rough.

The two new courses I taught this week went quite well. Though I think it'll be a little while before my dept manages to deliver a true program on this new content as it's quite varied and currently being tackled in an ungent time-frame. We're rushing to get the courses out without much time for dev on the course level...and there's at least 4 instructors doing individual preparation...no one to tie the individual courses together and make a program out of it...soon coming???

Manager of my dept is leaving...and also the Dir he reports to...very wierd landscape at work right now. Had a discussion with a sage vetran member of the dept...and his forcast of the short-term environment is kind of brutal...we'll see...

The lawns are mowed and Loren and I are about settle down for a little dinner...I brought her some week-end lillies yesterday.

Off to Rougemont tomorrow...to undo all those leg and groin openning poses I've been working on...

Today I saw 2 Canadian Snow-Birds touchdown on one runway, practically wing to wing...and later...a baby rabbit running along the sidewalk and ducking into a neighbours yard...

Yesterday saw Roderick, Marc, Drew and myself riding Rougemont. Gio was with Van up in Tremblant hiking and perhaps trying to spy on the world cup downhill.

The Weather turned out to be the finest, warmest weather of our week-end riding season so far. We spent at least 3 hours pedalling and walking that mountain, it was very hard work.

The trails were mostly dry, and the sun poked out through the clouds for a good part of they day. As usual Rick was like a lizzard to the sunspots...we're so totally opposite that way. Drew was coughing and spitting up a storm (and playing Run DMC)...and I found out that Marc has been doing some power-yoga classes at Lynne Saint-Roch on St. Laurence.

This morning I was still zonked...skipped morning asana...(going to get to the mat in about an hour)...got into work for 10:00. The kink in my neck has been with me for at least three weeks now, and the ride didn't help much...at one point this morning, between the exhasution and the aching neck (and several alarms), I could barely lift my head to roll over...

About 40 minutes of rain today...it really came down...I wish to do a quick night ride with Gio this week...to have some coffee on the trail and to have the world stop for a while...the woods at night have that effect...hope the trails didn't get too soaked so we could have a dryish ride.

The ride provided a connection between fun and the outdoors...a feeling that my old bikemags make me long for, an experience which takes me to a very good place inside.

A place which rekindles a playful approach to life.