Bikram Challenge: 21 days and counting...

I'm 21 days into the Bikram 30 day challenge.

Friday I'm flying down to Sydney. There I'll do a class with Darren Ma, two time Australian Yoga Champion, and then on Saturday I'm spending the day with Bikram Choudhary himself.

Sunday morning I'll go to mangalarati at the Sydney temple, then fly back to Brisbane at mid day to attend the evening festival here. My band is playing at 8 pm. I'll try to get a video for y'all.

The yoga is going good. I've modified my diet a lot over the past year since I last did it, and the difference is huge.Yoga Body Naturals is a yoga nutrition product that I discovered through an ad on facebook. I haven't tried it myself, but my observation of the effect of the radical dietary restructure I've done over the past year on my yoga bears out his premise that diet affects your flexibility.

I did a stint of body building about 15 years ago, and I've struggled with flexibility in my shoulders ever since. Now I'm really working into that.

Anyway, that's the news on the yoga. At work I'm recruiting three people to build out the team of writers. I have a new ad that I'll have HR run - I'll post a link to it later.

At Atma, I've been going over in my lunch hour and doing cleaning there, listening to Alvin Toffler's "Revolutionary Wealth" on the new 16GB iPod Touch I got from a work colleague.

The iPod Touch is great in that it boots up and plays within seconds. I don't have any spare time. I don't have time to wait for some slow player to boot up. When I have five minutes I can listen to something on the Touch.

I also have an eeePC. It has a 5 hour battery life. Currently I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 with the Netbook Remix on it. I have a lot of things to do, but little time at the moment. If I don't respond to your email don't take it personally.

With the Bikram challenge on and changing my role from writer to manager at work I'm at full capacity. It's good because I am developing my capability.

I have been thinking a lot of Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Rupa Goswami. I'll make another post about that.