Waiheke Island (Ashtanga Traveler)

So here we are, the summer holidays have finished and today the boys started at their new school.

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Uniforms Day 1

Conrad said he had a great day. Huxley was somewhat less enthusiastic, but still smiled when he gave me a cuddle at the end of the day. I cannot believe that both my boys are now at school.

The past what 2 months or so have been incredibly full. We shifted back to the island, had Christmas and NY here and then went on a 10 day road trip, camping down in Gisborne where I was able to practice yoga each morning with my main teacher now. I left the yoga school where I trained in Auckland just before we moved because it was going to be too difficult to continue on as a teaher there while living on the island. I am practicing at home now, and one day a week I meet up for a group practice with other islanders. The solo thing has been good for me. I really love my practice, it seems free and less rigid, more my own I guess. I am going to be seeing my main teacher again this weekend and the week following as he is doing workshops nearby, so that will be good. Plus I also did the week of led classes with Sharath back in Dec. All in all, yoga has been pretty rich of late. I start teaching a led class and a Mysore class in another coupla weeks. There has already been a led class once a week for the past 6 months or so (which I have even subbed), so it should be good. I am planning to do a little workshop to kick things off next Saturday....hmmm, never done a workshop before so I have my work cut out for me deciding how to plan it.

I am panning to commute to the city 3 days a week until I wrap up at the end of May....and then it looks like (xfingers) we are going to be heading home for awhile, over the Northern Hemisphere summer....yeah. I do need to go home, have been really homesick, despite all the activity here I still miss my friends and family heaps. So we have Maine, Mass, VT, and NY, Missouri I think and hope, and if it is possible, well maybe a bit of holiday in S. Cali...maybe maybe...I am working on that anyway.