Oh wow- I really let the ball drop on writing on here for awhile. But well- it happened, and now I am going to write again.

This last month was supppper active! I had different friends from Canada come and visit, I was busy giving Abhyanga and Shirodhara therapies, finishing my Clinical Ayurveda Studies course and just getting back in shape after my little 2.5 month work stint in Canada.

I realized SO many things this February… and I am super motivated to accomplish a lot of great things the next following months.

Tonight I just got back from Mexico City. My Practitioner friend invited me to Mexico to come and give four handed Abhyanga Snehana with her to some of her Ayurvedic Clients. It had been a few years since we practiced together, but we practiced in the night and then gave a massage to her friend for free in the morning -and we had it again. So nice- to be able to offer this massage to people again. It is really beautiful.  So this week I was just doing that, giving massages, studying for my final that is next week, people watching… and well a lot of time in transit. (Uber is so amazingly simple and usar friendly too). In Mexico, I really enjoyed the temperature and drinking hot drinks, the food especially all the soups, the culture… going to cafes and studying… working with someone out of a cool Yoga Studio in Coyoacan.

A few things I want to write about later.
1) The Play and the massacre that happened in 1968 and the movie to watch, as well as what it means.
2) The Subway station in the morning, and how Chilangos are amazing because they just manage and do and don`t complain (well some Cat fights happened) but strangers helping others by pushing them more into the train so the doors would close. And how soft it was in the train, because surrounded by women.)
3)Massage trade, with my friends mom… and how spending time doing that is such a beautiful thing.
4) Free ride home from the hair Salon and being able to pet and cuddle a poodle while getting your hair cut.
5) The lady in the tortilla line asking me, if I was here to see the poor people… and how I replied, you may be poor in some ways- but rich in others- and meant it… then was invited to her house… also Panchos Tortillas experience, getting a free tortilla while you wait as a tradition that is beautiful. 6) Sitting next to famous mexican band manager on flight home and him grabbing a photo of us.

And well- completely changing my direction for the next months.

So I was 100% I was going to be beginning my Ayurvedic Health Counselor Internship from California this April… then I thought I should take the Bliss course at the beginning of the month too… and it all was really aligning … My mentor was perhaps being involved in the course ( and I respect him so much) there was going to be a large group of interns in my course (which would be great to help me connect with more people like myself from around the globe) and ALSO I had 4 different friends tell me they could come and visit me there or also planning little trips with me… I was excited.

BUT for some reason… I am not going there…
and that reason could be, because I want to learn Spanish.

So as a believer in that you can attract many positives options and things… I am just going to now refocus myself… instead of going to the US for 4 weeks I am now going to go to Colombia for 3-4 weeks…  my plan is to camp at the place I am studying, and take advantage of the camping and 3 meals a day offer they have and yeah… just get into it.
Spend 4 weeks in peace and quite, nature and study.

California was going to be amazing too, I was going to connect with a kindred Spirit I met in India, go visit my friends I did a Cob building project with last year and see their beautiful cob houses, and reconnect with some other fun cob and nature friends and do some hikes and such… also, going to Nevada City really interests me- as I met so many ppl from my school who live there … but for some reason… I am not going. I am going to Colombia- where I know no one…my Spanish is weak and I have don`t even know what to expect… but I have faith.

So March is going to be a big month for me… the first week I am going to be writing my final test, then a few days later I will be heading back to Mexico City and then going into complete silence and meditation for 10 days at a Vipassana center outside of Valle del Bravo… then I will coming back to Puerto- giving an Ayurvedic talk at a health retreat and then hopefully offer some therapies and just really focus on my own Svastha for the next while and I will have a really good friend visiting me too.

This past week being in Mexico City and spending a week with my friend, who is an Ayurvedic practitioner, was great. We eat the same food, so cooking was awesome and delicious. (We are also the same Prakruti more or less) so we made kitchari, veggies and risotto, over night chocolate oatmeal, a lot of chai… and well yeah, just everything yummy. I also ate out a fair bit for lunch meals- just because there are so many options of healthy, yummy food- in the sections of town I was hanging out in.
I think due to the contamination and stress of my studies though I had a bit of low ojas and my throat began to bother me, but I beat off the inflammation with garlic, black pepper and ginger and well… super grateful for that too.

So Goals for March is to walk my truth…
I am going to be serious about my diet for the month- as although, I don`t like rigidity, there is also purpose and goals… and I want to have a clear mind and body for March so starting March 01… I am going to follow my constitutional diet (some examples are avoiding to spicy food and cold and drying food). I am also going to avoid spicy salsa (my true love in life), garlic (unless I begin to get sick or inflamed again), alcohol (even Mezcal), smoking (even natural tobacco for ceremonial purposes), also processed sugars and any type of junk, non pranic filled food.

I am also going to focus on my digestion, by only eating in a mindful way. Properly chewing, only eating until 3/4, drinking digestive tea, not eating after dark and taking digestive herbs or spicing my food as well as a few other guidelines.

I am going to begin a new practice and practice this daily for March- which is oil pulling.
I have a few other goals that I want to do too- but to many things, is a set up for failure.
Already I am thinking … you are going to be finishing your school and will want to celebrate (Would would drink mezcal, eat spicy food and staying up late),  you will be in Mexico City again and want to eat spicy food, you will have your friend in town and want to have fun with him and eat street food and drinks… (normally I would eat eggs, spicy, sugaring drinks such as horchata, lemonade…)
But this is the thing, I can do all of that still- I just need to be a little more strict.
The purpose is to see if I can do it.
I meet people who live like this all the time… I am not saying that I envy them or even respect them more than anyone else… as we are all just doing what we want with ourselves… but I do respect that they gave themselves the opportunity to change something and stick with it because it makes them feel good.

I mean that is our natural tendency…. if we are out of balance- we want more of those qualities and things that make us unstable or out of balance- but once we are in balance, then that is what we want as well.

Well, I am going to prove this or bust this in March.