The wake up was sad but I booked a lesson of yoga with Mam Yoga so I woke up Paul and Ben that I met the night before, they wanted to try the yoga in Pai.

I found the Mam Yoga online and I liked the fact that you could stay over at night in her place and do a two days lessons yoga with her. When I met her the day before, she told me that unfortunately she was not doing any of these things anymore as she was nearly 70 years old. Wait… What? The lady I was talking to was 69 years old? With her red hair breaded in a crown, hippie jewelry around her neck, her big fat round glasses on her no-wrinkled tanned face? I was seriously thinking about being a yoga teacher after that.

We arrived at 9.30, in the courtyard of a building decorated with Indian fabrics, colored carpets and a nice jungle music. A big fluffy cat was watching the eight of us. The encens transported me already in a cool and relaxing place.

We started the lesson by doing a bit of meditation. You can’t imagine how hard it is to not think about anything as long as somebody ask you to stay in the lotus place and empty your spirit. I started to try some auto mindfulness session when I was in London and I understand the concept of it. I suggest you to download this great app “Buddhify” (thanks Marie R. By the way!) which help you to try to focus on the good thing of everything in any kind of situation. But man, you have to close your eyes and even when you are on holidays, you are used to always think about 300.000 things per seconds. And that’s usually the moment when a moskito decides to harass you… But you are a bit afraid of Mam Yoga so you prefer to scratch for 5 days the red spot that it is doing right now on your skin than moving one finger to destroy it.

Mam Yoga is extra flexible and when she shows you a movement it is pretty clear that you will succeed doing it in one second. But hey, having your feet above your head is finally not simple.

Some breath exercises later and a bit of stretching poses, she ask you to stand on your head. Yep, Mam Yoga is like that. She believes in you.

I couldn’t do it. I think my abs are as hard as marmalade.
  

I really would like to do more yoga but I don’t think standing on the head is the main goal. It’s in the end just another position but as a beginner I didn’t like the fact that we tried straight away without the explanation of the effects of all The poses we tried.

Mam Yoga finishes all her classes by taking pictures of the group. She arranges poses and is pretty directive on doing it. Don’t say you don’t want to be on the picture, she will be REALLY UPSET. After all, how amazing it is to see the pictures the day later. Specially when you have two cuties, smiling and posing with their feet joined like this. I still laugh about you guys, sorry!
  
  
  

After the class, I changed my hostel for another one more outside the city. I thought it was really close but nope. it gave me a lesson, never trust the map when you have 21kg to carry on your back and that you have to walk “just” 20 minutes at noon. The way was so stiff. I thought I will collapse when I arrived there and called myself STUPID but the place looks cool. The Lazy hostel is a new place, along the road but really nice if you don’t want to spend a lot of money and if you want a simple but clean place. The 20 beds of the unique dorm where placed in circle in a shred. Like a lot of places in Thailand, everything was open to the outside but it’s not a problem when there is nets and the cold shower are just SO GOOD in the end. Emily, the owner, a super friendly Thai-German lady will help you as much as you need. Specially if you need a talk and a laugh.

She told me about a White Buddha on the top of the mountain. My ankle was completely fucked up so I reported the hike to the next evening.
  

Paul, Ben and I spent the night drinking cocktails at the Easy Garden, listening to live music.

I came back to my little hostel, (mum, don’t read that part please!) walking on the road, a light attached on my wrist, praying that no cars or scooters will hit me.