AcroYoga at the White House.....Sri Lanka

Hi Friends,

I wish you all a happy holiday season. AshtangaLanka is full and we will have 25 people at dinner tonight. It's really wonderful to see how many people are coming from all over the world. We have South African, British, Australian, American, German, Swedish, Canadian, Swiss, etc. It's a very international feeling.

As many of you know a big part of my life is AcroYoga. The past two years I have been in Sri Lanka I have not had anyone that is at a comprabale level to practice with. This season, however, two amazing flyers have manifested and are here to play with. Lucie, from Berlin, actually is living 2 hours away and teaching yoga at a place called The White House. It's a beautiful Sri Lankan colonial house. Gaby, a guest here at Rocky Point, is from Sweden. Earlier this week Gaby and I went to visit Lucie to play.

We shot some great videos and photos and will post a video when I get a fast connection. Blessings to all of you. Jacob

The Breeze is Back

Hi Friends,

I have returned to Sri Lanka for another season at Rocky Point. I arrived about a week ago to a tropical heat wave. For the first 6 or 7 days I felt like a wet towel the whole time. My body's thermostat was confused......when I left Portland, OR it was chilly and brisk. It truly is amazing how we fast one can relocate on this planet. Today the wind arrived to everyone's delight. It's amazing how much sweat one can generate by just sitting around in the tropics. With a sea breeze people's energy returned and now it's all ahead into the season. Starting tomorrow we are full pretty much though the beginning of March.

On my way here I visited my friends in Singapore again. It's such a nice pit stop along the journey to Sri Lanka. I arrived late at night and had a 22 hour layover to just lounge about at there place. They are ex-pats I know from Mount Shasta who live and work in Singapore. It was also exciting because they purchased a water filter from me and represented my first "international" sale. I hand delivered a Multi-Pure Drinking Water system to them.
After napping, showering, and having a delicious meal I headed back to the airport for my final leg to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Arriving at 12:30 AM I waited in the terminal for my friend Shakti to arrive from India. She has also been at Rocky Point the past two seasons. She lives in Dharmsala and teaches English to Tibetan Nuns living in exile.

So, Shakti came in at about 3:00AM and then we proceed outside to a car that was waiting for us, sent by Rocky Point. Since Shakti needed a 3 month VISA for Sri Lanka we went in the taxi to the driver's brother's house and just slept in the car for a few hours. Then in the morning we went to the VISA office.

Now, navigating these bureaucratic systems is quite different in a place India or Sri Lanka. To the novice traveler it can be quiet chaotic. Sri Lanka is definitely more organized and systematic than India but still appears like chaos. I particularly love how you go to at least three different desks with different people to get different signatures throughout the process. The room is on the third floor and hot. It's good to get there in the morning and early so you're not caught in the wave of people that arrive throughout the day. I've done it the previous two years but now I have a 5 year VISA so I don't need to do it again.

With the sweaty VISA office behind us and a green light to be in the county for both me and Shakti, we headed south along the coast for Rocky Point. After about a 5 hour drive through the busy coast highway we landed. Tired and sweaty we had a coconut and headed directly to the ocean to cool off.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and I'll write more soon. Cheers, Jacob