Back on the road again and it's oh soooo sweet. To travel for me is to be alive, auto pilot is off and my soul is awakened. Spain is beautiful and has many similarities to the Latin American culture that I fell so deeply in Love with a couple years ago. The region that I am living in is quite breath taking and amazing. I am doing work trade in a yoga retreat center outside of a small town called Orgiva, in the Andulcia region of Southern Spain. I am sitting in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountian range, surrounded by olive, lemon, fig, cherry, orange, and avacado trees. Many people from other parts of Europe live around this area it is like the Costa Rica of America if you will. Tons of hippies young and old, living in communes, tipis, and tents.
The retreat that I am working for is called Kali Yoga and if you have not checked out their website it is www.kaliyoga.com, if you look under photos you can get an idea of the region and the acutal retreat (look under the yoga section and go to therapies for my pic!) I will be posting pics soon hopefully but currently have no way to connect the camera I have to the computer.
I have many roles here at Kali including teaching 2 yoga classes a week, doing massage about 4 times a week, helping clean up after meals, preparing breakfast, helping to look after the guests and make sure they have a great time, and best of all teaching them to hula hoop!
I love the people I am working with and surrounded by, everyone is so full of love and experience and life and knowledge in so many areas. The two other people who actully live here at Kali with me are Roman from Israel, and Jamie from New Zealand, both amazing guys, they have become the big brothers that I never knew I wanted but am so completely in love with (in a brother sister kind of love). The rest of the staff all live around the area in the many small villas, communes, or hill sides around Kali. They are from all over the world, although I am the only American here, which is interesting in its own.
Living in a tipi is quite the experience and I am getting used to living in nature more than I ever have before. I have befriended the big hairy spider that used to keep me up at night, I call her big mama and she hangs out by the Buddha on my little alter I have set up.
I have been healing still from the car accident that I was in on April 17, still not 100 percent yet, getting body work has proven to be a bit difficult as I am keeping busy but my body is doing a great job to heal itself.
I have managed to get out a few times, Kali is a bit of a bubble world, I have been to a free world music festival called Etno Sur it was amazing! Check out some pics of me busking with my hoop http://andreasholm.com/blog/2009/07/in-the-moment/ (I think I might go pro busking after my job is through.) I have also had the chance to backpack around the mountains around where I live and its so breathtaking. Sometimes my eyes hurt from not blinking enough in fear to miss the beauty around me. You can read the book Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart if you want a easy read to give u an idea of the region and its power.
Much love to everyone back home.....will update soon hopefully with pics!
