At breakfast at the hotel I chatted with a fellow who had a cute puppy on a leash. Turns out his fiancé has adopted the puppy and they’ll fly it home with them to California. She has been volunteering at an animal shelter here in Mysore so I brought up my issue I am dealing with my father’s animal hospital and I pointed out the phrase- “putting the animals to Sleep”- how that in itself speaks of not facing the reality of what people (my father) were doing. And I was living in a house connected to the kennel where these animals spent their last days and Died! And I was told – just don’t go in there. You are too sensitive. (something was wrong with me!) Anyway, then I mentioned to the the fellow with the dog that I am doing Ayurveda and he said he went thru that training course. He told me the special name for the double massage and how it is synchronized! He said the oil is a combination of different scents and it is cooked and the idea of the hot oil and the continual massage is that it breaks down the emotional scars over time! Wow- I was so glad to hear all that!
We went for my second massage ‘treatment ‘ and this time the tiny girl used something hot- I thought- hot stones- but no- different- after the same massage as the first she moved the hot thing all over my body . About the size of a bar of soap and I thought- hard rubber? and she pressed it along my arms and legs and back . This time I didn’t go into the steam box like I did the first time but I felt much more comfortable about the whole arrangement and I asked for a cushion or towel to be placed under my tail bone – which they did- and I had no discomfort there . As I left the treatment room I was handed another glass of warm brown water which I drank and then I looked out the door into the sunny day to find Allynn. The first time Allynn made some balloons for the tiny massage girls and this time too. Later he told me that he had been making balloons for the Dr. guy while I was in treatment and Allynn had been told that those girls slept that night with their balloons! And I looked at my watch and I realized I’d been in the ‘treatment’ room for 2 and a half hours! Back to the hotel by rickshaw and I just had to give my husband a little taste of what that oil was all about.
