I’ve had a wonderful couple of days here in Mysore! On Monday evening after my Odissi lesson with Sindhu, we went together to a dance performance. Monday’s performance was the classical bharatnatium Indian dance, which has become one of the most popular of the seven classical Indian dance styles. I thoroughly enjoyed the show, it was interesting to the see the difference in styles between bharatnatium and Odissi, but it also made me really grateful to be learning Odissi, as I feel Odissi is a much more beautiful, more expressive, more elegant, and more challenging style of Indian dance.

Tuesday, I had a glorious yoga practice, felt as though my energy has come back full force. After practice I even went to the gym for a while – felt so nice to be back in the usual routine! Then I enjoyed a lovely breakfast at Tina’s with Maureen, John, Joyce, and Erin. I spent some time dealing with necessary emails and whatnot at Anu’s before going to get a much needed pedicure – haven’t had one since Sasha was here, and I was beginning to get rat feet. Maureen and I then headed to Coffee day for a good ole café Americano before heading to the city so I could pick up the ring I’d ordered weeks ago.

I got to dance at 4:30pm and after class yesterday Sindhu and I went to another dance performance – this time it was an Odissi performance! I was so excited to go see Odissi – I’d seen Sindhu do a performance right before I started working with her – but I really wanted to see another dancer performing items. Again it was a lovely show, and I really loved seeing many of the moves I’m learning being performed by someone with much more experience – it was truly beautiful to watch. It was raining pretty badly last night so Sindhu’s husband Kiran picked us up and took me home, which I was quite grateful for. I then ended up meeting up with some of my Indian friends for a few hours – we went to Opium, a rock-n-roll bar/club in the city. I’ve wanted to check the place out for quite a while but had not made it until last night. And I must say it was a really cool place with a great atmosphere and some really good rock tunes! I enjoyed a bit of dancing, a glass of wine, and some fun company…

Today has been really laid back – energy is a bit lower than yesterday, quite possibly because I filled yesterday to the rim. Also could have something to do with the coming full moon on Friday. Who knows…Regardless I’ve been able to get some much needed R&R, got the last of my bags from Girish, my hats from Lokash, went to the market, and plan to spend the next few hours doing some reading.