The Yoga Bridge, Week 13, The Practice of Detachment

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The yoga class schedule changes month to month. Sometimes good change. Sometimes inconvenient. Teachers also change their schedules. Students come and go. I understand this and I am okay with people pursing their lives.

Last year, I had a hard time dealing with change, favoring teachers. Today, as a way of coping with change, I am using the class, teacher, and student relationships as a practice in detachment.

As a general rule, I don’t want to be dependent upon one teacher, place, or thing. The focus is on home, self practice. The world we live in is in constant change, a fact. Just as at the yoga studio and outside of the studio, I live the same way. I will survive the teacher change, change of times, and the new student moving back to Idaho. When at the studio and I am with the yoga instructor, I want to use the time as best as possible because change will occur. For now, I believe the development of the home yoga practice to be very important.