I woke up at 5am and the sun was starting to rise thanks to daylight savings. I went back to sleep until 6 and yet somehow I still arrived to Jerome's 7am class 5 minutes late. I took a spot towards the front of the class and as soon as we started moving, WOOSH, I was overwhelmed with a terrible smell of B.O.

It didn't smell like me, but I checked my armpits anyway. It wasn't me.

As we continued to move, the smell got worse. I tried to ignore it but I started to feel a little sick to my stomach. Don't people smell their own body odor? I debated moving my mat or even leaving class early. I decided that with all the work I had to do today, I'd just leave the class at 8am to escape this person's stench.

But as I got more into my practice, I noticed the terrible smell less and less. As it got closer to 8am we were finishing a looooong series on the right side and I didn't feel like leaving until both my sides were balanced. So I ended up staying and somehow managed to (somewhat) ignore the stink.

At the end of class, Jerome mentioned the documentary film that I had suggested to him called Surfwise. He had conveyed that the moral of the family's story was that "too much of a good thing can be a bad thing." Although I see where Jerome was coming from with respect to the film, I also feel that the Paskowitz Family's story is so powerful because even though the children didn't get standard education, they still became powerful contributing members of society because of to Doc's belief in the 5 Pillars of health which are diet, exercise, rest, recreation, and positive attitudes of mind.