Dreams are gentle. Some fear
yesterday. But this morning I
woke up with a warmth, a
sensation of proximity, of being
loved. It was quite tender.
I really love how my dreams helps
me in a transition. Bringing me
what is missing in my life. 

I plan to go back to boxing
tonight. It felt so good to get
back into it. I've also made
myself a schedule for self care,
taking one hour (at least) for
mantra, self massage and yoga.

I generally practice daily, but
not in one sitting. A bit here
and there. I lay in the hammock
and massage my legs for a while,
stretch in the morning with some
sun salutations, mantra at night
before sleep. But I would like to
try to cut the day, and have a
more concentrated practice.

It takes about 20 minutes to do
one mala of my mantra. That's 108
mantra, and the goal would be
1000 mantra a day, which would be
200 minutes, or 3 hours and 20
minutes. I used to chant that
much while I was living at the
Ashram, but it feels like I do
have enough free time at the
moment to reach 1000 mantra in a
day. We'll see how far I get with
this. I've done 400 so far in a
day, about a hour and a half,
but I generally do around 100
to 200. 

I've been studying how to
pronounce my sanskrit
mantra. I've been saying it
correctly about 50%, but there
are some sanskrit rules I wasn't
aware about, changing letters to
PH sounds or SS sounds when 2
word are together. It's nice to
revisit a mantra a year later, to
bring more power to it.