I decided to hang around Kegalle over the weekend due to the assortment of activities that were going on...Saturday evening we trekked over to Rambukkana to watch the Perahera, a big festival/parade. Arriving at 8:30 having been told it started around 9pm, we ended up waiting 3 hours on the side of the main road for the parade to start. Past us walked flame dancers, whip dancers, men on stilts throwing flames, Kandian dancers, drummers, monks in a pimped out jeep, about 25 elephants and much much more. It was so long we didn't even stay for the end. Imagine a snails pace...the parade was moving slower than that. Yeah. So we headed to bed late and woke up bright and early at 5am on Sunday to go to Karunegala. Sandith had planned a day of yoga for us. So we drove up a beautiful palm tree estate where we met the famous Yogacharya (he's the director of multiple Ashrams-where you study yoga-In India). Apparently he frequently appears on TV? Anyway after our porridge, which wasn't porridge at all, more like a thick green grass tea, we sat down on the mats to begin our yoga session. We learned the basics for stress relief and how to breathe. We are all breathing wrong by the way. After numerous positions with our legs in the air and yoga inspired fist pumping it was time for lunch and relaxing by the pool. Needless to say I woke up Monday morning and my shoulders were in physical pain. Haven't had a workout since....well, you get the picture.
I decided to hang around Kegalle over the weekend due to the assortment of activities that were going on...Saturday evening we trekked over to Rambukkana to watch the Perahera, a big festival/parade. Arriving at 8:30 having been told it started around 9pm, we ended up waiting 3 hours on the side of the main road for the parade to start. Past us walked flame dancers, whip dancers, men on stilts throwing flames, Kandian dancers, drummers, monks in a pimped out jeep, about 25 elephants and much much more. It was so long we didn't even stay for the end. Imagine a snails pace...the parade was moving slower than that. Yeah. So we headed to bed late and woke up bright and early at 5am on Sunday to go to Karunegala. Sandith had planned a day of yoga for us. So we drove up a beautiful palm tree estate where we met the famous Yogacharya (he's the director of multiple Ashrams-where you study yoga-In India). Apparently he frequently appears on TV? Anyway after our porridge, which wasn't porridge at all, more like a thick green grass tea, we sat down on the mats to begin our yoga session. We learned the basics for stress relief and how to breathe. We are all breathing wrong by the way. After numerous positions with our legs in the air and yoga inspired fist pumping it was time for lunch and relaxing by the pool. Needless to say I woke up Monday morning and my shoulders were in physical pain. Haven't had a workout since....well, you get the picture.
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