by Ross Settles | Jul 22, 2006 | Mysore, Travel, Yoga
I have dreamed of doing this since I first read Alan Little’s journal of his trip to Mysore in 2001 (?, no time to check the reference now). I had been practicing for about 6 months, it must have been summer of 2002. Tonight I will board a plane for Hong Kong...
by Ross Settles | Jun 7, 2006 | Mysore, Travel, Yoga
Now that the clock is ticking on my trip to Mysore, I have a case of persistent anxiety about injury. What if, what if, … I don’t have one of those perfect practices where everything is even and balanced and easy. My legs turn out so far that I can stand...
by Ross Settles | Jun 5, 2006 | Mysore, Travel, Yoga
Hard to believe that I haven’t posted since the end of April, over a month. I didn’t really expect my trip to Nancy’s in Maui to be a watershed, but I think it was. When I left, Saisha was still in the shala, Anne’s departure was still fresh,...
by Ross Settles | May 1, 2006 | Books & Reading, Indonesia, Mysore, Travel, Yoga
I am a little superstitious. I secretly check my horoscope and I am constantly reading signs into everything. Breadcrumbs pointing to some future action or consequence. So over the last four weeks I had heard a snippet of an interview with a woman who had written a...
