The last five days we received more Pinda Sweda massage with the bolluses, and Kati Vasti of the donut on the spinal column. It was filled with herbal oil for 30 minutes and was very helpful for my back numbness and tingling. Those lasted for two days and then we finished with three days of massage, steam and shirodhara which is the very treatment program we started 33 days ago.

I am sure we will go into withdrawal symptoms from having so many massages. Of course, Maury and I plan to work on each other upon our return and I have a few volunteers of people who will let us practice our new found treatments on them in VA.

Tonight we go to celebrate one of the male technicians 24th birthday at a wonderful Indian restaurant. Tomorrow is a day of rest and some last minute shopping for a few items in the market place. Sunday, we leave Rishikesh at 3pm for our train to Delhi. We arrive there at 10:25pm and stay over night in a hotel. Monday, we have a driver and escort who speaks Hindi to take us all over Delhi and to our flight at 11:15pm. We stop in Singapore for 16 hours where we will do some more sightseeing as on our last stopover on the way ti India. We arrive JFK on Dec 2nd at 11:05 am.

I am looking forward to sharing information about my experience with Ayurveda and Yoga in Rishikesh upon my return to Monterey this summer probably sometime mid-June. I will notify everyone as soon as a date and time is set.