Day 257 : Mountain walk and puja ceremony

Another meditation walk this morning – this time up a larger hill with great views out towards Madurai. Another spectacular sunrise accompanied by peacock cries. Loulou sat away from the crowd to listen to the birds instead of chanting.

Feeling stiff again but can feel the different in flexibility from the yoga already.
Karma yoga was fun today – I was helping to move dirt to build a temporary seating area for a puja ceremony at a new temple they’re building on site. It meant carrying baskets of dirt on my head with some of the Indian women from the village.

The water supply seems unreliable – not good after sweaty yoga sessions twice a day!

Lecture today about our 5 bodies – physical, energy, mind, intelligence and happiness.

Meal times are fun but messy. It's good to watch how other people eat with their hands - in restaurants it's sometimes difficult to know how to eat things! Usually the idea seems to be to mix the rice / idly together with the different sauces / vegetables until you get the right consistency to shove into your mouth without spillage. I struggle to walk sometimes after sitting cross legged for so long but it is getting better.

In the evening there was a puja ceremony at the new temple.