mukesh kumar

today we went on the hunt for jesse's old tabla teacher from seven years ago. he didn't remember how to get to the place so it was a long walk... across the whole town, up a huge hill, around a few ashrams, back down the hill and finally into the music school. it took a moment, but student and teacher recognized each other and commented on the difference in facial hair from 7 years ago. what followed was a lot of tabla talk and name dropping. we drank chai as well. later we went to meet mukesh's father who is a 75 yr old man without any of his upper front teeth. we told him i would like to take some vocal lessons and he proceeded to check my musical abilities. He shook Jesse's hand and told him he has all of his strength at this age becuase of the power of music. so tomorrow morning i'm going to learn something from him. he's been teaching music here for 45 years.
yoga in this town is crazy. it seems every other person is a yoga teacher. my body is not in shape for all of this, but the teachers don't seem to notice that. today the teacher actually managed to contort my body into a pretzel!! i wish i had a picture to prove it but i only lasted for about 2 seconds, not even enough time to get a shot. tomorrow we're going to take a class on the beach at sunset. aaah. then starting monday i think we may try the kundalini approach since we've been reading a book on the subject. (yes, we are actually reading the same book at the same time, what does that say about us as a couple??)
the pictures i just posted don't really do the trick for this scene. i'll see what can be done about that.
Hari Om my friends