Rawat Comes to Aspen

It's Tuesday morning as I continue to recover from the last week, and what a week it was. Rawat, my yoga guru from Delhi, made his first trip out of  India, away from his family, landing in the United States and even better experienced a week in Asspen. I picked him up on a Monday in Grand Junction and brought him to my home. Words cannot describe his excitement. Like a child he was taking everything in, his mind and brain on overload. There is no comparing America to India he continued to say with his new video camera in one hand and a sparkle in his eye.

Rawat at Maroon Bells


Rawats' first order of business was to HEAL, his second was to ENJOY!
 
For me the coolest part was the fact that he would see the way I live, eat and train pretty much 24/7. My hope was to get some pointers as to how I could make me daily rehab routine better. I now have a new yoga stretch and breathing workout to do in the mornings or when I have time. BUT, I must do it daily. The exercises are simple, basic moves done with the breath starting at the head and working down the body joint by joint. Bending, lengthening, twisting, rotating, balancing, up, down... simple moves to awaken the body.  Believe me, after a week on this program with some acupressure and massage every cell is FIRED UP! Which IS the whole idea. Right? So, from there I would crawl into bed for a “Nip” as Rawat called it. I had to laugh, “That's right Rawat, a Cat-Nip.” I would say. A short nap.
 
The Yoga Class 


He was satisfied, actually pretty happy with my nutrition and diet. I try to eat a healthy, natural, mostly organic diet. I begin most mornings with a veggie drink (I make using apples, grapefruit, kale beets, cucumbers, collard greens, ginger and many other leafy vegetables), coffee and a bowl of raisin bran in which I add ground flax seed, a few oats, and wheat bran. You are what you eat and the better you eat the faster you heal. Many days we had spinach salads for lunch with seeds, eggs and tomatoes. Rawat showed my how to make a yummy curry and their traditional chipates (not sure how to spell it), basically a whole wheat tortilla. Just writing about them makes me want to go whip up a batch. Don't get me wrong I like to eat everything and I'm not afraid to indulge; ice cream, chocolate...

Independence Pass
 
Leah, Rawat, Buffy 

In short Rawat went paragliding, hiking, biking, up to the Maroon Bells twice, up Independence Pass and Aspen Mountain, around town, Jimmy's for dinner, Cantina for Happy Hour, The Aspen Brewery for a sampler, yoga at the Red Brick, pilates with Pam, held a lecture and yoga session, went to dinner at friends houses, had friends over for dinner and even checked out the late night live music at The Belly Up... I took him to Basalt for a session with Amanda and Sonia, others came to my house for healing sessions, he worked with me for 2-3 hours a day....but the best was watching him at the grocery store or getting skittles out of the candy machine. Everything is different, you cannot compare Aspen to Delhi.

Rawat gives Amanda Acupressure 

I drove him back to Grand Junction where he will be for the next two weeks healing and enjoying. Thanks Rawat for the experience and lessons learned. I now have a new yoga routine created especially for me and my body. I will continue to work on these basic moves daily until the signals are strong and I can perform them with ease. In time to return to Delhi and come up with the next routine, pushing me forward to where I desire to be....

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