I quoted one of my favorite songs to my classes during my last week of teaching in the DC area:”It’s part of life and we have to choose/Which path to walk and which pair of shoes/Ain’t one thing that stays for long” (Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line).  Change is inevitable, and though my path has diverged from that of my students, there is not a single day that I don’t think about them.  My job as their teacher was to hold a space for their practice and allow them to celebrate the community they created.  But, they ended up teaching me far more than I ever taught them – how the physical body moves through space and time; how to teach from a place of empathy and compassion; and just how much our asana practice is a moving meditation.  My last classes with them were precious, and they built me up, paving the way for a promising journey in Texas.  To finish the song…”Travelin’ on/I am not afraid of travelin’ on/I am not afraid of travelin’ travelin’ on…”