I hope everyone is staying warm, keeping their chest and head covered or what ever tends to get cold on your body. The days are warm here but morning is a bit chilly and evening is very comfortable. I am having a wonderful time but I do look forward to coming home and being with the ones I love. 
      The main shala has thinned out and probably will continue as the weeks go by. My time slot is now at 7:00 am, which is good because now I do my backbends with Sharath. In only three days he's walked my hands up to my knees and I've completely straightened my legs so I can stand on my own. Not that I have not done this before, but it's been over a year or so. I find that the backbend adjustment balances the whole body, more then any other pose.  My body and I missed it. 
      Yesterday in class, Gruji decided to use my tailbone as a balancing device as he walked by and I was not in an asana where it is easy to balance (Tittibasana C). Today he stayed in the room for quite a while and adjusted well past 8:30. A couple of days ago he was wearing a T-shirt that said, "Yogis Do It Better". Everyone was cracking up but not as much as when he asked me in conference if I was married and then insructed me in front of a couple hundred people to take a wife. More on that subject later.
      I had a brutal battle with several misquitoes on Saturday night. They were air attacking me while I was trying to sleep. The buzzing around my head was driving me insane, then I would go under my covers but it was so hot I could not breathe so I would come up for air and the attack would begin again. Finally at 3:30 am when I had nothing left inside of me, I got up out of bed, stood naked in the middle of my room with the lights blaring and killed each one of them one by one. Ahimsa out the window. I do not think they were thinking of vicious insects as they wrote that. Now I have a plug in oil diffuser and no more attacks, sleeping like a baby. Then there was the giant cockroach that jumped on my foot while I was squatting in my Indian toilet try to use the bathroom and balancing on the other foot as I'm trying to shake it off into the hole. I was successful and recovered relatively quick.
      I think that is all for now. I will be going on a little trip to visit a Tibetan Golden Temple this Friday. Hopefully I will have enough for a new letter. I should be posting something new each week, I will also post new photographs.  
                                 Take care, love, Chuck