The first day of the retreat was pretty challenging. 3 people of 10 have lost their language at the airport. During the night when the last client arrived the taxi driver drove off with her suitcase. Thankfully it wasn't on purpose because few hours later everything was sorted out and the suitcase has been delivered back by the drugged taxi driver. I hardly could sleep and now after the morning yoga session I'm falling asleep. I'm tired.
I have got a wonderful time and so have the participants. At least they've said so. Every morning 2 hours of yoga practice and every evening 1 and half hour of yoga dance. During the day 1 hour of different activities such as yogalates, contact impro, acro yoga on the beach, pair yoga. During the day we were exploring the beautiful beaches such as Gallipoli and Otranto. The big town - Lecce is known as Florence of south. In fact it was very monumental and rustic town without much of renovations. Puglia is supposed to be a poor region, however it's not that obvious. Habitants seem to have a high style and very chilled out life. I wouldn't mind it for a while. People are very solar and nice, no pressure at all.
As soon as I came back home in London I felt such a low esteem. The whole world was about to crawl down as soon as I entered my apartment in basement. It doesn't feel right to move from a beautiful hot country with such a strong natural colours and contrasts to a big town with huge traffic and hectic life. But it's not even the hectic life which is disturbing. It's the dump flat which is putting me down. People are in rush without acknowledging each others.
It's two weeks since I've been in London and it's getting cooker, though still sunny. I'm injured so can not dance at the moment. I'm forced on planning this year professional work and holiday time. I've joined dance degree on second year. It's a part time degree in collaboration with a contemporary dance school of London The Place - where I'm actually training my self every morning by taking the professional dance classes. Now I'll be there also twice a week in the evening. Next summer I am going to ogranise yoga and dance retreat in Italy on the boat. This year I'll focus on my dance company to develop the new multi-ethnical dance project. In terms of teaching will set up my own yoga dance class in a dance school and corporate classes of Yoga and Pilates within London's big corporations, run yoga therapy developed into movement therapy, move to a nice apartment;) now I'm just hoping to recover asap from my knee injury, flu and broken heart so I can make all that happen. I will gaver more often with my friends and organise meeting group to exchange the ideas and opinions.Amen...
