V-Day

Not much sign of Valentine's Day in Rishikesh... and as for me, this year's love affair has been with my toilet. Ya. Real romantic. Haven't been this sick since the "all-you-can-eat-meat-buffet"(???) in Cambodia 6 years ago. Actually, that one was much worse, but this comes a close second. And for such a silly reason... There's this mouth-watering dessert in every cafe in Rishikesh called Hello to the Queen. Ha. I've been watching people eat them for a month now, never indulging in one myself. I told myself I'd get one after completing the full Trika course, which happened yesterday. Saw it as a reward for a month of mental and physical purification, but it didn't end up being a reward at all. As I took the last bites (actually, I haven't described it yet: cookie crumbs at the base, covered with warm, chopped bananas and a mountain of vanilla ice-cream, drizzled with chocolate syrup), I could already tell this had been a very bad idea. Stomach pains began immediately, and I went back to my room very early. I lay in bed with stomach cramps for several hours, and then, from 1am to 1pm I visited my bathroom many, many times. The problem with eating so healthily and doing all these purifications, is that my stomach can now no longer tolerate the guilty pleasures I used to regularly indulge in. Oh, and if that weren't bad enough already, I ran out of toilet paper. Great. This time, I'll spare you the details, saying only that I'm now more familiar with the typical Indian way of, well, wiping. It's now 5pm, and I thought I was feeling well enough to venture away from home... not too sure anymore, let's see how long I last.
So, as I said, yesterday I officially completed the full Trika course, without having missed a single class. Last week was back to basics, since I had started during week 2, and it was nice to tie up all the loose strings at the end. To give you a clearer idea of what I've been delving into, here are the lecture topics from the course (this will only represent the tip of the iceberg of what I've learnt and experienced, but should paint a pretty good picture):
-Two fundamental principles of yoga: correspondence and resonance
-The 7 chakras (root, sacral, naval, heart, throat, third eye, crown)
-What is Yoga? (history and why to practice it)
-Asanas (postures of the physical body)
-The 4 kriyas (daily morning cleansing: tongue, gums, nose, eyes)
-Polarity (solar/lunar, yang/yin, male/female, cosmic/telluric, +/-)
-Indriyas (body organs related to each chakra)
-Suryanamaskar (sun-salutations)
-Ashtanga (the 8 limbs of yoga)
-The different branches of yoga (Jnana, Bakhti, Karma, Raja, Tantra, Hatha, Kundalini...)
-Pancakosa (the 5 bodies/layers, physical and beyond)
-Music Meditation 
-Ahimsa (non-violence)
-Mental Concentration
-Satyam (truth)
-Healing in Yoga 
-Asteya (non-theft)
-Vamana Dhauti and Ayurvedic medicine
-Brahmacharya (sexual containment)
-Vegetarianism
-Aparigraha (non-possessiveness)
-Karma Yoga
-Sauch (purity)
-Sanka Praksalana (intestinal cleanse)
-Santosa (contentment)
-Yoga Nidra (lucid dreaming)
-Tapas (austerity)
-Svadhyaya (self-knowledge)
-Macrobiotics
-Isvarapranidhana (surrender to the divine)
-Laya yoga (mantras to hear the sound of the universe)
Those are the main topics, and you can probably see why this course has been so life-altering.
Had planned to go to Prem Baba this morning, and I assumed he might be focusing on Love. But since I was bed-ridden, I delved into Osho's Being in Love which I recently bought. 
Ok, it's getting pretty urgent that I return to my room... so I'm going to go back to how to love with awareness and relate without fear as a celebration of this year's Valentine's Day.