We have had today (Sunday) the Orientation Session of the training at 3pm. Bikram was not there (bummer!) but I got to see Rasjashree (Bikram’s wife) and Craig Villani (general manager). I am meeting Bikram tomorrow at 10am (I am looking forward to it!) and we have our first yoga session tomorrow at 5pm.
In the orientation session I created my first video for the blog. It is really crappy and it only last 10 seconds but I promise I will learn how to do video with my new camera.
There are 300 people with me. So far, I have met people from Australia, Canada, Scotland, Netherlands, Mexico, Kansas City and New Zealand. I haven’t socialyzed a lot yet but everybody looks really nice and not crazy.
Finally, for those of you with this question in mind… yep, it is confirmed that there are definitely more girls than guys in the training
My baggage almost exceeeded the plane’s weight limit. 90% of it were the books that I have brought with me with the goal of reading all of them before the end of the training. I am always very optimistice regarding how many books I am able to read:-)
(1) Some light reading to start: The Street Lawyer, Middlesex, the Bonfire of Vanities and Cup of Gold (as I always wanted to be a pirate, what better than reading the biography of the greatest pirate of all-Henry Morgan)
(2) Never miss a couple of good books on evolution: The Extended Phenotype (Richard Dawkins) and The Scars of Evolution (Elaine Morgan)
(3) Something scientific to feed my inner geek: A Short Story of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
(4) Something in Spanish when my English is lazy: Diccionario Filosofico (Fernando Savater) and Meditando el Management y La Vida (Jordi Nadal)
(5) My latest hollystic obsession: 4 books with the 50 classics series from Tom Butler. A summary of the top-50 books in different topics (Success, psychology, spirituality and self-help)
(6) Ideas for my Retirement Plan: 100 Great Businesses and The Minds behind Them (Emily Ross)
(7) Planning my next trip: Lonely Planet guide to Cuba
(8) And finally, some Food for the Soul: Bikram Yoga (Bikram Choudhury), Essence of Yoga (Astadala Yogamala), The Happiness Hypothesis (Jon Haidt- thanks E. for the book!) and Letters from a Stoic (Seneca)
After reviewing the list, I think I would be happy if I read a third of these books!
We have had today (Sunday) the Orientation Session of the training at 3pm. Bikram was not there (bummer!) but I got to see Rasjashree (Bikram’s wife) and Craig Villani (general manager). I am meeting Bikram tomorrow at 10am (I am looking forward to it!) and we have our first yoga session tomorrow at 5pm.
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