A blog about Mandi Bateman & Sarah Yukie’s travels to Bonnaroo, Spirited Body: A workshop by Tom Myers, then to Wanderlust
GET IT!!!! - Saturday: Day Two
Sarah arrived Wednesday night after a 13 hour drive with 2 twenty-some stoner girls that she met at a small dinner gathering just a week before we left. On the drive down she ate fast food, and one of the girls smoked cigarettes during the drive…grateful for the ride, she took this much better than I would have. I arrived on Thursday evening, and missed one of my favorite bands Alt J, but we had a lovely dinner with our Nashville Baptiste contingency and Sarah and I slept in a bed at Liz’s house.
It was a great night sleep for a few reasons, firstly I have been sleeping on a futon since I moved to California, also it would be the last bed we would sleep in for a number of nights, and most particularly I woke up in the middle of the night holding Sarah’s handJ
Before I arrived I left Sarah a message asking her to go grocery shopping. It was a rambling message. “Sarah, could you go to the grocery store before I arrive and get some food for us? I pretty much eat anything (which is a total lie because I am a very picky eater) except wheat – and which I spelled out to make sure she understood that I was saying wheat and not meat: W.H.E.A.T. Maybe get some carrots, cucumbers, cans of tuna and sardines, hummus, tortillas, chips and salsa, and kombuchu”. So sweet and nurturing, Sarah took my message verbatim and bought everything I requested. We had a few laughs and I told her how healthy, sustainably caught, and how sardines are a nostalgic food of my childhood. Last night for dinner Sarah, who has taken over the cooking roll at our Bonnaroo campsite, made us tortilla, hummus, sardine, and corn/black bean salsa tortilla wraps…which will be on my menu if I ever open a restaurant…delicious!!!
I teach yoga at POD 2 in the campground Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 7:30pm and on Sunday I teach at 9am & 10:15am on the Solar Stage. Friday evening before class Sarah and I were walking, on our way to meet our golf cart chauffer, in the backstage area of the festival. We heard sirens ahead of us, all foot/ car/and golf cart traffic was stopped. The road was barricaded, so Sir Paul McCartney could be police escorted into the festival. I negotiated our way around the barricade through a chain link fence gate to get to our meeting place on time. We arrived at our meeting place in front of the porta-potties. As we waited for our driver, Jess to get our golf cart, the universe blessed us with a little treat: about 10 feet away Sir Paul walked by us smiled and waved. After we regained our composure each of us shared that it felt as if he was looking ‘directly at me’. He saw each one of us, and we saw him. Putting the words on paper doesn’t do the experience justice – No. 1 chakra blown!!!
Things we forgot: utensils, baby wipes, umbrellas, tea tree oil
Thing we brought: Flow, ease, healing energy, sleepy bodies (which made for good night’s rest)
Things we have learned thus far: at one of the biggest festivals in the world, it’s best find a rhythm that is opposite the masses. Shower at night, don’t drink yourself into oblivion, do yoga and meditation in the morning, listen to Pretty Lights horizontal in your tent.
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