Day 35: Pain is an inevitable fact of life. To suffer is a choice.

Happy 25th Wedding Anniversary!! 

Today my amazing brother and sister had a surprise party for my parents to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversay. All of their closest friends and family met at my grandparents house while my brother drove my blind-folded parents over to the house. They we're completly surprised and unaware. My sister, her boyfriend, my Uncle Brad and his daughter and baby all came down from Ottawa for the weekend as well. I called my parents an hour after the suprised and they seemed so happy and completly overwhelmed to say the least. My sister said my mom started crying and my dad was teary-eyed. Yay!! a success!!

Mom & Dad, I love you both so so soooo much. I feel truely grateful and blessed to have gotten you as parents. Your so loving and suportive of the 3 of us and I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Thank you so much for supporting me and accepting my path to come to Bikram Teacher Training. It's so important to me. It has, and is changing my life. I miss you both and can't wait to be home, close to you again. Congratulations on 25 years of marraige. Your 50th is going to be even bigger so if you thought this was big... you better start preparing yourselves now! haha I love you both! XoXo

Yoga practice this morning with no mat = success!!!
VERDICT: yoga mat is a crutch
I had an amazing practice today. It was so freeing to go to the hot room with nothing but a water bottle, practice my yoga, and leave with nothing. absolute brilliance. If my practice can be the same with a mat, and without one... then I don't really need it. I'm not going to lie, I'm definatly going to have brusies ontop of my calusis on the tops of my feet from Fixed Firm Pose, and it did hurt the top of my head to be in Rabbit, but wait- could it just be that I'm just rolling too far forward on my head and creating too much pressure? OOOooohh Yeaaaaah! BINGO. and guess what- I wouldn't have known that if it wasn't for this little expairiment. The lady besire me was not impressed to say the least. When I told her that I didn't loose my mat and about the article I read last night she informed me that the purpose of the mat was to reduce germs and preserve the carpet. She was really annoyed. I think I'll try to practice without a mat beside her again.

Niki taught an amazing class last week which brought me to tears. She ended the class with the Beetles- All You Need Is Love. I was right in front of the podium to make sure I could suck up every word and direction she exspelled. All 400+ yogis sung along with the music at the end which was so moving and heart warming. It wasn't until I gave Niki a hug to congradulate her on her class that I started to cry. She was so happy to see me finally break down (what a bitch) and then made me leave cause I was starting to make her cry. Then once I got myself together and left the room I ran into Meghan... waterworks. The whole rest of the day I felt so disoriented and weird. Last week ended off with Dom, the head of staff, delivering a kicka$$ class which ended with some Micheal Jackson. The entire room was so moved by the MJ tribute that everyone got up and started dancing. 500 sweaty people of all races and religions dancing and singing to Micheal Jackson in speedos and bikini's. AMAZING. Highlight of training so far.

Orsi comes for Advanced in a week and TamRock comes in 3 weeks. So much love. So much support.
I know I keep saying this but- I'm so lucky!!!!!!!

I'm off to mix and mingle with other trainiees for the night. Maybe dinner and a movie?
Enjoy your weekend! I miss you all.

4 MORE WEEKS!!! XoXo