Day Two

Slept like the proverbial log! Awoke at 8, and puttered on the Internet until 9:39, when I realized that class was in an hour and I hadn't showered, breakfasted or walked there! Gathered myself together, and grabbed a good $7 (yep, this is turning into a way of tracking expenses too) smoothie  of banana, ginger, coconut and cashews on the 20 minute walk over to the West Side. Last night it felt like an hour...guess that's the difference a suitcase and a long day make to sense of time! 

It's crazy, but at 7:00 tonight I can't for the life of me recall what we did in the morning, a real indication that I have got to do notes at lunch. Instead I spent some time with two other women, Sue from Vermont and Cheryl from CT looking at the Leo house in the hope that we could get a room for 5. This would have meant $50 a night each, a nice reduction probably worth the inconvenience of sharing. But they only have two rooms that are designated "family" and they were both booked up through the end of the year!

The class is trying to find solutions to the housing issues for the out of towners. Of course, few people in NYC have extra space...but there are some options to explore. Even in a dedicated class life issues interrupt!

In the afternoon we did the Skeleton Arms exercise...which then went into a rolling motion, that was so simply and easily executed I was stunned. Ive been doing ATM since February of 2010, and often felt like I had found something new about myself, but after this I felt like I'd never roll over the way I used to again. Then, for the first time we watched each other. The challenge was not to correct, but to observe. Where was the motion being initiated, how was the flow of the motion. And then to talk about it without using judgement. Just observing was difficult...and then not judging...well, we all had fun with catching the words we used like better, right, etc!

Back to the hotel, at a brisk pace, because the long awaited thunderstorm was clearly imminent, and I had no jacket or brolly with me. I let the storm get it's first few clouds enter while I typed up most of this, and then ventured out to dinner at Mumbles, just on the corner, and had a great salad with flank steak slices and a glass of red wine $26, and looked for some fun things to do in the mornings, which appear to be free!