last shift

friday morning, 7.25, KPJAYI,- two led classes done, one to go, people looking for empty spots, fixing hair, chatting, waiting, others leaving, still streaming out of the changing rooms after a short shavasana. Shifts. "People change, but yoga is always the same", Sharat says.

Life. People come and go, we don't know for what reason, why some things happen and others not. It just IS like that. The more resistance, the bigger the pain, - fighting, such a waste of energy. Nothing ever stays the same, all that comes has to go, nothing for keeps, in the end everything and everyone has to be left behind. Meeting the shaky nakedness of the moment, with the steadiness of the witness inside, floating with the movement of change, growing from inside out, honouring the shifts of life...