You have just finished a blissful class, and you are at peace. You are just cooling down as the sweat starts to chill your bones when you leave the yoga room. Then, it happens. You enter the...CHANGE ROOM. Oh man, here it comes. The change room test.

You want to just CHANGE your clothes. But, the change room could CHANGE you into something else.

Do you change into the BEAST? Does your peace change into rage bubbling out your eyeballs?

Well, it's all test my friend. Just a test. A test of the emergency test your peace of mind system.

In the Yaletown studio, there are more than 2 showers, but there are 150 people walking on top of eachother, some sweaty, some dry. Some are buck naked, some not. Some smelly in a bad way. Some are bent over, some are balancing on their head. (Well, not that last one.)

In the White Rock studio - there are 2 showers. You sit on a bench and clench your teeth a bit as the 2 people in the shower are taking a bit too long - like 12 minutes, while you are in line behind 5 others.

SERENITY NOW!

And you are trying so hard to keep that bliss and peace from your yoga, but the salt is starting to harden in your eyelashes from the sweat glibbing down from your hair.

SERENITY NOW!

You start to breathe. You tip toe patiently around the naked person bending over, while you reach behind their head and gently try to get your bag, but she gets up quickly and then bumps your head, and you fall backward into the person who is on their cell phone while eating a banana, and then she falls through the open bathroom door...

SERENITY NOW!

Can you pass the change room test?

To all of you cool cucumbers who can, and you do EVERY time -

I applaud you! I have such respect for your patience.

The test is...

Can you be patient? Can you be kind? Can you weave in and out of the 150 people gently, calmly, and mindful?

Yeah baby - you passed the test!

Rock on peaceful yogi.

And for the others, who have failed the change room test...

Try, try, and try again!

It's a test worth passing.

Peace
Andrea

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