This past week we continued to learn more stomps and mudras with not one, but two gurus! This week's steps were somewhat different from the kinds of stomps we have learned so far n past weeks. My feet, and especially my heels were sore by the end of each day, but as they say, the pain should only make your smile bigger. Our gurus said that their feet were sore when they were first learning these steps too, and there is no special technique to avoid it; your feet just have to get used to it!

I really liked the cup exercise that we did in class on Wednesday. I have HORRIBLE posture, and my family always pick on me about it, so this was really good practice for me to concentrate on sitting and standing straight, and not just falling back into my typical slouch. We lined up into two lines, and half of us were Ramas, and half were Lakshamnas. We used the mudras we had learned to walk down the line with our invisible bow and arrows, practicing our stylized travelling steps, trying to really focus on the characters we were embodying and keeping good posture. I really liked learning the song at the end of class on Wednesday. I was humming the tune for the rest of the day; it was kind of soothing. I can't remember all of the words, but the tune is engrained in my memory!

Thats all for now.