Fast Day 7 - the low?

Seventh day felt like the first drag of the fasting period - from first meditation class, even prone on mat, there was so much heaviness in my head I almost couldn't perceive anything (sunny day, the dulcet tones of teacher Gilbert) but the fog.

The good news is it wasn't pain - no headache - but it did hamper even the limited activities I had scheduled. A little more yoga in the morning and crabby lunch - speaking only of me, please, certainly not Vicky or any of the lovely fasting friends - before my first ever experience with Chi Nei Tsang healing treatment, in short a traditional Chinese therapy involving lots of abdominal and thorax massage and attention. I woke up enough to pay attention for the 50 minute hour, but even so, I'm fairly sure I didn't get as much as might have been garnered from it. It was a pleasant sensation particularly as the old alimentary system - a 'tube within a tube' thank you Dr. Nels Granholm - hasn't been called upon much in the last week plus as digesting vegetable consommé just ain't that much work. He worked over the soft organs there plus a very gratifying sternum and ribcage treatment which I realize is pretty much never done in typical massage (how to get at it when one is mostly lying on one's stomach, yeah?) that did feel warming and loosening...particularly after all the yogic breathing we've been up to.

The best news is we were introduced to two 60ish years old brothers from England (well, Patrick the younger has been living in Australia for the last 40 years, and he's been here less, whilst older brother Andrew is on his 10th or 11th annual visit to Buchinger - comes every year at Easter time for the death-life metaphor) who in addition to being hilarious raconteurs and sparkling, gentle souls also just happen to be wickedly sharp in the ol' bridge arts, so Vicky and I had both a grand time and absolute spanking playing 10-12 hands of (gasp!) rubber bridge with them in the salon after dinner. Hopefully much more of that to come...

Curiously, stats also pooped out, with the smallest daily weight change yet (just 100g) with my energy levels...

BP: 108/63
Kg: 73.4