Swami Vishnu Devananda whispered as I walked past"Did you skip 6am meditation this morning, tsch tsch, young lady. It would have done you the world of good, cleared your mind of all that Sandman nonsense that has been troubling you for months."

How does he know?

"Swami, I am sleep deprived 6am is the middle of the night why not have meditation after breakfast for a change, it is way more civilised at 10am than 6am and I am sure you would get much better attendance. I know all the New Yorkers in the van slept through it, not just me. We are trying to relax."'

"Karma yoga for you is cleaning the mens toilets, you don't mind do you?", the Swami replied with a glint in his eyes.

"Not at all, I clean the mens toilets all the time, have you not got a more original karma yoga job for me, like playing with Blackie in the snow or sitting in the lovely sauna sweating out all my bad karma?"

"I'll stick to the men's toilet you will make them glisten I am sure."

Ok so that is yoga vacations for you.