December
Even though it’s Christmas time, I don’t love the month of December. It’s just that the same thing happens every year, we start the season in September and the students come back from their summer holidays, so determined and focused. We arrived in October, and we welcomed new students, people who have never done Yoga but have been considering starting for a long time, and are finally taking the step towards it! In November, the groups are solid and the energy in the room is wonderful.
And then?
Then December comes, the days are shorter, the early morning and late afternoon are dark and dreary. Lack of motivation is excused by the weather outside, or by typical illnesses at this time of year, and to help, their calendars are also starting to fill up with shopping trips, Christmas lunches and dinners, of work and 50 WhatsApp groups with relatives, like those who bring cousins together, and cousins of cousins, and cousins of cousins of cousins. And to continue helping, I still see a large number of practitioners going on vacation to their countries, most of them to escape the cold, where they return to a place where Christmas is celebrated with slippers on their feet, and with dresses, shorts and t-shirts on their bodies! They say goodbye with a goodbye, but in reality they only return at the end of February, after Carnival!
Every year it’s the same, says my husband, when I comment that I’m missing students in the class, and I end up agreeing that it is, because December always turns around our group. And although I love Christmas, and live the New Year with hope and faith, the truth is that I don’t like December at all, because I always miss the students who don’t show up to class because they are in bed with the flu, or the help children recover from it. Either because they are shopping, having Christmas lunches and dinners, or recovering from those shopping, lunches and dinners. Either because they went on vacation, or are recovering from vacation!
Anyway, but now we have reached the last class of December, and Shala reopens on January 6, 2025, where I will be recovering from this month that always turns around the motivation of the students in this house.
Happy New Year!
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