Yoga Stories: September catch up with Monica and Matt

Summer is almost over - but you wouldn’t know that from Monica’s
regular comment on the weather! This summer has been one of
growth for both Matt and Monica. With yoga studios in Belgium
allowed to reopen, and with Matt having completed a teacher
training course, things have, inevitably, changed.

Have we been able to embrace this change, as yogis do? As the
young people would say “it’s complicated”. Or maybe it isn’t. So
will Matt teach, Monica wants to know… we discuss callings,
gurus, “inner-gurus” and “proxy-gurus”. How do we cultivate the
ability to listen to that voice inside that helps us make better
decisions? How do we learn how to make decisions based on
reality, rather than our fantasy of how we would like things to
be? And how far do we go when we learn something new; how much of
yoga can we absorb into the daily lives of “householders” with
families, jobs, responsibilities?

And now that we can physically be with our friends, families,
communities, how will we handle that? Is there something we can
do in our personal daily practice that will help us to be open to
the possibilities that are now appearing? And can we be kind to
ourselves and learn from those incidents when we haven’t been
calm, haven’t lived up to our own expectations, or failed to be
the yogis we thought we were, or hoped we were?