What lead to the current events...

Spring of 2000. Santa Monica College. I needed one more unit for the semester, so I took a PE class - yoga. It fit my schedule, you know. Unfortunately, it was a kind of gerriatric yoga - the instructor was afraid that I could pull off my arm by mistake. After the semester I thought of yoga as an exercise for seniors. But then I took another class with a different instructor... She was a practitioner of Yengar style, and after first class I knew that yoga the way I knew was dead. But the class was only meeting twice a week. I wanted MORE. So I carefully wondered upstairs to the "Optimal Enchantment" power yoga studio run by Brian Kest. That was a true revelation. I was sweating like a pig every class, and could not get enough. Half a year later I traveled to India (just sightseeing) and visited Rishikesh, but in winter time there was not much going on. But I still managed to catch a wonderfull case of amoebic dysintery as a souvenier. When back in the US, I went back to power yoga. I have been there ever since. But that "is there something more out there?" keptitching in the back of my mind, and the time to scratch it has come. A glorious 2 month visit to Mysore might realize in the end of December 05. I signed up for Mysore style ashtanga class with Jorgen Christiansen (who is right now in Mysore himself and class is being taught by Andriano). I want to prepare my mind and body for least ammount of shock. T- One Month.