We just had lunch and talked about the essence of recovery and relaxation to benefit from training. We are not the best to make plans for this, but it’s gonna change. Continue reading
Category Archives: Indonesia
Support your local
The phrase is often used by a MC gang with local chapters around the world. In this case is is about the local artist. Continue reading
Qigong
Weeeeell – we are open minded and want to try everything. In accordance to one of our martial arts heros, Shiomitsu Sensei of the Wado Ryu Academy of England, you should taste everything at least once. If it tastes good- have some more. If it tastes bad – spit it out and move on.
A busy day
Today is Monday. What a glorious day of the week! All over the world people wake up and get ready to start another week. So do
Arne at the Yoga Barn @ 6:40
we. We talked about the fact that traveling like we do can not mean you have Saturdays and Sundays for a year. There has got to be some more structure that that. So here is a typical Monday. 🙂
Acro yoga, what a blast!
Today we challenge ourselves and pushed some borders. We attended a class of Acro Yoga at the yoga barn. This was new, fun, scary, hard, childish, challenging and … did I mention FUN?!? Continue reading
Get up, get out!
Any good day start with a training session in the morning, or what? Today is Sunday and we got up with the call of the roosters and set out for a morning run. There are great views in Ubud, and specially if you go out from the beaten track. We stopped and took some pictures today as well. Continue reading
Thai yoga body work, something new
After a superb late lunch at Bali Buda, great place, we were ready for our class of Thai yoga body work at Yoga Barn. We had read that this class would be massage and pair work so this was hopefully something to look forward to. The class was full with lots of excited faces. Then Carlos arrived, he definitely falls in to the yogi category described by Arne earlier. A handsome dude with a guitar under his arm and his long dreadlocks tucked into a sarong on his head. Arne and I looked at each other, my og my what are we in for…. Continue reading
Tai Chi Chuan @ Yoga barn
Dave West teaching
Picture from TripAdvisor
Today we tried something new (for us) – Tai Chi Chuan. I guess there are as many branches of this martial arts as there is in Karate, Jiu jitsu, Kali etc. The one we tried were the one available, and therefor the one most right for us. There was an English teacher Dave West, who’s been living here on Bali for the last 15 years that held the class.
Roosters, hens, cats and dogs
It started with stray dogs and cats in Sanur. In Lombok the roosters and hens had the leading role, they were everywhere 🙂 Running freely around all over the place. Making rooster and hen sounds at all hours and “bobbing” around digging into everything they could find. In Jl. Hanoman today (the main street of Ubud) 3 hens on the loose made the traffic even more chaotic than it already is. All this makes me wonder:
Bugs
Coming from Norway the biggest bug problem is the mosquitos in autumn. We have wasp, bumblebees and bees during summer, but the common fly and the mosquitos are the worst.
Here in Ubud it’s the ants that take charge. They are small and everywhere: on restaurants, shops and in the yoga studios.
It doesn’t seem like they bite or otherwise cause any discomfort, but they tickle as the crawl in the underbrush of my calfs.
And as they days passes we get more and more used to the little buggers. You notice the itch, and it takes a few seconds to realize it’s not a fly who moves away when you shake your arm or leg. Then you pinch it and flicks it away. No drama, no fuzz – even for Katja. 😉
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