OMG!!!! On our resort by the beach in Kovalam, they have YOGAAAA!!! But like every morning!!! In, like, India, where they invented Yoga!!! Ruvinder Yoga of the Yogic corporation, (inc. 1507, by a palm tree in the hillside), first pulled his right foot up to his left ear whilst humming and the rest is history. Because when his mate, Ronny Yoga, saw what he was doing, rather than taking a photo of Ruvinder to post along with the legend ‘what a to-sssss-errrrr!!!’, he instead looked at the broader picture and realised that this was possibly an incredible opportunity, staring him right in the face, but from underneath his mate’s right testicle whilst standing on one foot.

I filled in the ubiquitous ‘form’ before undergoing any exercise anywhere, standard shit, which between the lines says “IF YOU FUCKING DIE IT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH US!!!” One of the questions: ‘have you ever done yoga before’. Yeah, I have. ‘Where?’ To which I replied, in about 75 different hotels around the warmer parts of the globe. Because yoga, for me, is what you do in tropical countries to justify the ridiculous breakfast you’ll eat afterwards. You lie on the floor, breathe heavily whilst twisting around a bit and before you can say ‘Ravi Shankar’, you’ve arrived in a higher spiritual plane than you’d previously even known existed. Great, so where’s the maple syrup?

But in India, its very birthplace, the place where downward dogs meet lotuses and upward cobras get eaten alive by praying planks, I went to the class with… renewed enthusiasm. Not just to keep Mel company and find things that make me laugh, but to spiritually realign with my Bikram and my Tantric yogicity (sometimes you just have to invent a new word when none exists to do a job), in order that my karma will be at peace once more.

Whilst all I really got was a pain in the hip and an attack of the giggles.

Mel has managed to get Delhi-belly whilst being about 1500 miles from Delhi. And this picture is the view from our balcony. what we could call ‘typically tropical’ in the literal sense.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx