How come every time I print new schedules I need to change them? It happens every single time. It doesn’t matter how much I plan, or how much feedback I collect before putting a new schedule together. Every time I head to the copy store I know I will be back within two days to do it all over again. My kids have a lovely collection of colored scrap paper to doodle on from all of the out-of-date schedules floating about the house. Their art is now sponsored by Growing Yogis. The only thing I have learned from this, so far, is only to print a few at a time.

I think this speaks to not really being able to plan anything entirely. 
There is a saying that keeps popping up in everything I read:
 “Man plans, God laughs.”  This seems to hold true in my world lately.  It can be so incredibly frustrating to watch the best laid plans crumble at our feet. Life's little speed bumps. We grasp at holding it all together but when it gets right down to it, there is simply nothing we can do but to go with it. 

Yoga teaches us to practice non-grasping. Letting go. Going with the flow.
Spontaneity. Change.  Embracing the unexpected.  Rolling with it. Thinking on the fly. These are not my favorite games to play. Lately, though, these are the things that are challenging me.  From tropical storms that steal my power, to locating a new preschool four days before school is scheduled to begin, I am rolling with it. Or, at least I am working on rolling with it.

Controlling the need to not control the uncontrollable is my paradox.  This
is where my work is at the moment.  My yoga.  Yoga isn’t all physical. It isn’t all about having a flexible body, or the ability to sit still, focus on your
breath, and meditate. We have to live it. Put it into practice and live it.
Easier said than done, as usual. 

Go ahead and make your plans. It’s great to have plans. Just be prepared to
accept that you may have to change them. And maybe check the schedule on the website before you head on over to class.