I LOVE MOTHER EARTH!!!!!
hi my friends and family and all my loved ones.....aka one and the same!
what is going on??? how are all of you??
i know i have written recently....but i have a feeling i will be out of commission for a little while, and i am so excited and i don't think i really know what will be happening yet.....i need to really figure it all out, but i have a train ticket, and i have told domnic that i am coming, and he will hook me up with some sorta deal situation....because i am a friend of a friend!
basically, in goa i hung out for a bit with this guy manu, very funny and chillin, peer pressured me to drink one night, i don't drink very often, it had been 7 weeks or so.....anyways, he's from India, lived in aussie land, and he was travelling for a bit with elisa from germany....he has a guesthhouse and tour houseboat in Kerala-southern India, and told me of a friend who has a place in the jungle in Kerala, very special....i looked into it, and well....im a sucker for jungle...it seems like some of the most powerful mother earth nature, and that is what/who i believe in most, becuase i come from her, we all do, including the trees, the rain, the rainbows, avocados and passionfruit, babies, dogs, snakes, leeches and wheat! all of it!
look.....http://www.malleeshwaram.com/....
http://malleeshwaram.blogspot.com/...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Valley_National_Park...
yeah, i KNOW!!!! it'll be a big journey in and around trains, buses, rickshaws, jeeps, i dunno exactly....but im headed there tomorrow....OH MY GOSH!!
so this jungle lodge....we're talkin tribal area, and 'grossly inherited with leeches', and 10 acres of protected forest, it is described as an ancient tribal kingdom, and Silent Valley National Park, where it is has been described as the 'richest expression of life on earth'...and the animals.....and creatures and flowers...
im actually a bit sad to leave Goa....its been an amazing time here....so so amazing....its so small in Arambol beach where i am....and so nice....every day at sunset, i cannot explain it....music, gathering to watch the sunset, every kind of play is here.....the circus/play world is wonderful, im really appreciating this group of people that i never really knew i was so part of, and i shared so much with.....even tho, well...i hula hoop....so really, i am!?!?!? but these people are strong, they are active, they do yoga and dance and movement and rhythm and play and children and simplicity and dirty and perform-y and beautiful and fun and well.....grounded....they dont need much, just to be healthy and play together.....of course there are a range of people, and exceptions and extremes to everything....but the people ive really spent time with, ive enjoyed so much, its such a great community....and its worldwide!!!! with so much talent and enthusiasm.....ive spent so much time with a really wonderful canadian, from Quebec, Marie.....and we have many similarities, many differences.....
my hula hooping has really just blossomed as i feel i have since being in Goa, and really it has come from being in India and learning what i have learned here about so many different bits of life.....ya know, its amazing....at the juggling convention i spent days doing yoga and acro yoga (balancing and stretching on/via eachother), creative movement (liek contact dance)....i had the best day doing afro-brazilian dance......and the last night many people just brought out their fire equipment and just jamed out.....i dunno how many jugglers were at this convention, but you can only imagine how ay different styles and forms of fire playing there was.....poi, and staff, and juggling and swords and rope darts and everyone does it so differently and its amazing to see....and of course hula hoops!!!!! i really wanted to, so i searched one out to borrow, i got one, and i was going to go next, it was perfect....there were some drummers and a didgireedoo....totally my type of hula inspiration....or life inspiration, give me some live organic music anyday and im ready to move.....anyways, as i was ready to go soon....the police came to shut it down.....WHAT??? here in goa because of its past, and really, sort of its present..... lots of parties, trance parties historically...so music and party all night long.....blah blah blah....the police want money if you wanna stay, its really the corruption little situation here, but they ended up taking one of the coordinators to jail....he got out ok with less of a fine then they asked for....but basically....music was over, and the party sort of had a damper put on it......last ngiht and the police came.....
but you know what? shortly after, some dude started spinning, and i was already fueled up....so as soon as he was done, i was in..... AND IT WAS SO GOOD!!!! people were cheering me on....because id been hooping all week, and so inspired, and i had friends i had made all week really encouraging and enjoying what i do....and well....it was really beautiful, and i dont spin very often with fire, so its always a treat for me and especially for the people watching, and many people said i reenergized the night after the police..... it was so nice....i wish you could have all been there to be part of it....but really you are, all the time now.... i feel that!
i really enjoy hulalooping because i am inspired and it is because i know people are enjoying watching as well, it totally is an exchange.....i wish all the people who watch me hoop knew that.... since the convention ended, i have had such beautiful days of simplicity... sunsets are a constant.....i bring my hula hoop, i go to where everyone is, or find music that inspires....and there is always a couple places....but there is this man here, itailian...but he has this AMAZING instrument called a hang from switzerland, it is amazing....so beautiful...it sounds like a harp, but a drum like steel drum, soft, and soulful, you feel it moving you...... so i hula hoop and i just move with it...it is so amazing.... many people watching, sometimes drums, and didgireedoos....sometimes bhajans- nightly prayer and chanting....as the sun is setting over the ocean.....so beautiful.... i saw dolphins one night..amy- i saw them!!!!...and then i go swimming once the sun is down, the day is ended, the sun has set....it is a wonderful time to swim....then have a shower, and there is music happening at night AGAIN, a jam session somewhere always....always music here, always a friend somewhere....you almost cannot be by yourself, because you haev so many like-minded friends around....
i have really really loved my time here....a lot...it has been like freedom for me, maybe it feels like that more especially because the last couple of months in India have been more restrictive with expression....with being open with my body and my movement and dance and flow..... and now im in goa and people are swimming topless on the beach and you see belly and leg and arm and well, its not true India at all....but it definitely is a beautiful free musical flowing open place....so it has really really opened and loved up my free spirit side....and i am always happy to nourish all my bits....it comes back around to all of my life....and all the people who i interact with..... its been amazing, i am really surprised to be honest, i ddint expect to love it here, but i do, i really recommend coming here to arambol beach in goa if it right for you...that always is the key.....ya gots to be realistic about yourself, and what is good for your mind, body, and soul.....and find the balance.....
but thats the key in life....really.....
so, i move on to the jungle, also so important for my soul.... this jungle lodge....we're talkin tribal area, and 'grossly inherited with leeches', and 10 acres of protected forest, it is described as an ancient tribal kingdom, and Silent Valley National Park, where it is has been described as the 'richest expression of life on earth'...and the animals.....and creatures and flowers...
i will let you know how it all unfolds, but i leave tomorrow evening, night train down the coast, and then i have to take a few buses and jeeps to get there, i dont really know yet, but im in! from there i will probably go more south in Kerala, i would like to get to the most southern tip, i like to experience extremes....plus...Roy, another wonderful hamilton canadian friend explained the because fo the water cycle, the true END of the ganga river really is at the most southern point here, because the water flows from the himalayas, all the way to where the streams and rivers meet the sea.....and that is in the south....so i feel a little bit like this was the beginning inspiration for me-the ganga, and it seems only right to see more....but that will all be decided when it comes to that....
but future things, ill be sort of brief, but i am starting to have some dates.... feb 18-24....i will go back to thirunamavali, to the singing heart ashram, for the dying for truth retreat i think to assist jaclyn.....i think i will really learn so much and it will give me many new perspectives on life....and death....
and then i maybe will come back to goa, because there is this woman here who makes really beautiful costumes, and i am starting to think i need a costume for hooping to perform....its a thought that is growing in my head....and also to have a little freedom and sunshine burst before heading up to the north and mountains again....
then march 27 to april 6- there is a 10-day meditation thing called Open Dharma that i have been accepted to, it is different then Vipassana (if you have heard of it....)-less strict, more open....good for me...
in the future, im starting to sorta seriously consider germany....for summertime....going to berlin! it makes me quite excited to think about it....ive been given lots of beautiful and positive feedback and advice....and im sort of feeling drawn...but this is months away.... but i wanna give you a heads up for the just in case.....
i am gonna go....i love you all....i really do....thank you for listening and enjoying...it wouldnt be the same for me if it wasnt for you....it is the same about hooping, it very much is a give and receive situation....i am experiencing and loving it, you are listening and thinking of m, sending me your positive wishes...and well, it all comes around and back to the goodness of sharing id say....so thank you for keeping me going as well.... i love you! and i think of you all the time...
to my closer family, i am sorry i dont call all the time...but you know when we talk it will be the same as it always is.....lovely!
ill keep in touch when i can!!!!
adios...
Sunni
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