Ommm.....

I was really glad to go to Yoga today. There were only three of us there - Laura (my teacher), myself, and another lady I didn't know. It was a challenging class, full of a good mixture of poses I was familiar with as well as poses that were new to me.

The best part about it was the sense of order it brought back into my week. I was really feeling out of whack since my whole training schedule (it seemed) had gotten thrown off by the heat wave, and this was the first real return to normal that I'd felt since Saturday. It also helped that the temperature had dropped significantly.

One random thing I noticed during our workout is that one of the chants Laura played on her iPod during our warmup was the same text as a chant I had read in a Robert A. Heinlein book in high school (I Will Fear No Evil, in case you're curious - hey, I said it was random!). I was surprised by the fact that I recognized, and then remembered it - and asked Laura after class what the chant meant. She didn't know, but promised she would find out and let me know next week.

I did a little bit of research with my friend Google, and found out that the chant "Om mani padme hum" means something like "Behold! The jewel in the lotus" and is supposed to be a chant for compassion. Now I'm going to have to go back and reread that Heinlein book to see if it adds any additional meaning to what was going on in the story at the time.