OK, Here's The Deal...

Yesterday, the other 33 or so people arrived for the retreat, making it a total of 50 attendees. It's a meditation retreat by the way.

I don't think I ever formally mentioned that. We are here to study Vedic worldview of the Bhagavad Gita with our meditation teacher Thom Knoles. His web site is www.introtomeditation.com.

I've mentioned Thom before in my yoga classes. He's quite a remarkable presence and I can't say enough great things about him and about my experiences with him.

Another part of the reason I'm in India right now is because I'm training to be a teacher of the type of meditation that Thom instructed me in four years ago called Vedic Meditation.

Thom initially trained as one of the original Transcendental Meditation teachers about 40 years ago. Vedic Meditation comes from the same tradition as TM, yet Thom is not affiliated with any organization.

The course on the Bhagavad Gita starts today and continues for the next 7 days. Then I'm back in Los Angeles for a week. And come May 1st, me and 10 others will go to Flagstaff, AZ (where Thom lives) for a 12-week intensive VM teacher training course.

Ok, I'm running a little late for the morning talk, so I will fill you in on more later....