Hooray! Un Retiro de Yoga(Yoga Retreat)

Well, I was fortunate enough to have yet another AMAZING teacher enter my life albeit a little late but better late than never huh? She lives in Zipolite which is less than an hour from here so it's WAYYYYY too bad I didn't study with her for the past 5 months! I just spent the past 5 days on retreat with each day beginning at 5am with 2 or so hours of vipassana meditation and then pranayam(in laymen's terms, sitting perfectly still and quieting the mind and then working with the breath)and after a break 3hours of hard core, very deep therapeuticly based asana(hatha yoga)! It was a swift kick to the butt and a much needed opportunity to play the role of student and not teacher. Plus I learned a tremendous amount of innovative new stuff and as always with retreats am cleansed and redirected. Unfortunately I won't have another opportunity to study with her again while I'm still living here as she's off to study/travel/teaching and won't be back until after our visa expires but at least now I know she's here. The beach in Zipolite is quieter and smaller than here even though, funny enough, it's the only beach in the entire country where nudity is accepted. The bonus to the whole thing was that everyone participating except for only 1 person spoke Spanish, Mexican or not and I had tremendous opportunities to practice and I think I can officially say now that yes I am more or less fluent in Spanish which is SO exciting! OM!I'm back once again in the real world but we're so very slow, only 2 students next week, that it doesn't feel so real but we're not complaining too much.