Magic Magic Magic - Thai Massage Circus Feb 2011..

My time in Chiang Mai became super busy, it was all good though as I was teaching alot & my final classes were teaching on a 5 day Anatomy course with beautiful Jo. It was a lovely group & the course went well & I really enjoyed the experience. After a lovely break to the floating cottages I came back to Chiang Mai to prepare for the Circus in Loas (www.thaimassagecircus.com), a month intensive thai massage course living out in the sticks! The day before me & Stella (my wonderful yoga & love of tea friend!) were due to set off I got a little sick, fever, backache, headache etc! I have observed now that its seems every time I moving countries or setting off for some new adventure I get sick! Anyway I think it was good that I got sick before the course as it meant that I managed not to get sick during my time at the Circus.

THE THAI MASSAGE CIRCUS

Wonderful, Amazing, Joyful, Grounding, Beautiful, Divine, Fabulous, Transforming, Calming Experience......

As I sit & write this my Circus memories just make me smile, smile, smile :-). It really was a truly magical experience & exceeded any expectations i may have had. It took me about 2 minutes to feel at home on the land, surrounded by water & nature. The land is so beautiful with a mini rice fields, vegetable & herb gardens, papaya trees every where & combined with such a strong vibration from the land.

The Highlights..........

Waking up at 6am to meditate, knowing you had a beautiful day of yoga, thai chi, Capoeira, then wonderful food, a swim in our natural pond & after all that we began to learn, practice new massage techniques & learning how to feel.

Circus day at the waterfall - A playful day up at the waterfall, a 15 minute walk from our camp. We offered massages to tourists (Loas people & tourists from all over the world), played acro yoga, sang, danced, swam basically had loads of fun & offered our heeling services to the world. We managed to get some tourists to join in & sing & dance with us!

Drop Backs

CHeck out my teacher in Chiang Mai, amazing!

Teaching at 'The Spa Chiang Mai' & Namo CH'....

As well as teaching at wonderful wild Rose 2,3 x a week I will now be teaching at another yoga studio in Chiang Mai called 'Namo' , teaching 3 x a week. http://www.namochiangmai.com/. Also I will be teaching at 'The Spa Chiang Mai' 2, 3 x a week, it is a bit of a drive out of the city on my Fino

for 50 mins but being in the country in surrounded by rice fields is really nice! http://www.thespachiangmai.com/






So I am so happy that I am going to be teaching alot & learning alot from my students again. I will also be fitting days in to go climbing. Mon & tues & Thurs this week I've been climbing with a Kat a girl I met through the climbing shop. She has been teaching me to lead climb instead of been on top rope, I just love it! It is also a bit of a drive, an hour out of town but it's worth it to climb out doors!




I am also going to start learning more Thai massage on a weekly basis!! Life has suddenly got busy but in an amazing way, every day filled with doing the things I love!!

Rumi - Only Breath (Heart touching poem)

Beautiful poem for my breathing class today....

OM Namah Shivaya - Krishna Das (Extended Version_HQ Audio)

Ijust love Krishna Das, listen to get a taster I what i experienced this summer! x

First classes at Wildrose ... www.wildroseyoga.org

I feel so privaledged to return to Wildrose studio in Chiang Mai. It's such a beautiful space with wonderful people who go there. My first class was a benefit class for Art2Healing a charity that helps empower women who have been victims of sex trafficking. The focus of the class was to practice from our hearts & offer out support & love to the rest of the world. It was a small but lovely group of people who stayed with the practice despite it been a particularly hot day! 3 hours seemed to go so quickly & as usual I felt like I ran out of time to cover everything I had planned!

Check out the classes at Wild Rose & to see all the other wonderful things going on there :-
My next workshop is "Yoga for Freedom"!!





" My heart is expanding a thousand fold. Every cell, taking wings.. " -RUMI

Return to Chiang Mai Nov 6th.....

There is a kind of magic about Chiang Mai that seems unexplainable, things just seem to fit into place here. Before i arrived gorgeous Rose (www.wildroseyoga.org) invited me back to teach at her studio. If that wasnt enough being the wonderful connector that she is, she put me intouch with a couple (Kate & Paul) who wanted a house mate. They had found a wonderful house in Chiang Mai & they needed a house mate, me!! Yippee!! They met me from the airport & took me to my new home, wow its huge & such a lovely space, or collection of spaces with a balcony with a hammock, a wonderful tropical garden with banana trees, papaya, sweet basil, chillis etc etc. I am still in a state of shock that things have worked out so well. Also lovely Lawrence who lives in Chiang Mai but is away until January left me her scooter to ride! Although I enjoyed my summer of fun, its nice to have a base & no that i am staying in a wonderful place for the next 3 months.

Since i arrived on 8th Nov, i have had the strongest & most painful massage ever, I will see the benefits though now that blocked energy has been moved! Ive had 2 steam,saunas, been to a wonderful temple for organic vege food, practiced in 3 diff places in the house, eaten homemade dahl & naam made by Paul & cooked butternut squash, ginger & chilli soup! Also not forgetting alot of sleeping & chilling in the hammock reading Shanteram!!!

Life here is so much slower, I know when i arrived back in the UK i was super chilled however by the time I left I was zipping up & down the country between London & leeds & really not giving myself permission to stop. For some reason i always felt the need to visit as many people as possible in the short time I had in either city. This does not bode well for a relaxing life! So I am now making up for this in Chiang Mai by spending alot of time in the house staying put & no longer racing around to do do do........

"The flowers are blooming with the exultation of your Spirit." - Rumi