This morning I had a conversation with a man by the name of Angus that I have slowly come to know over the last few years. Angus is homeless and a rough sleeper in London’s Green Park. Day in, day out he sits on the street in Mayfair, always in the same trusted, often damp spot. I’d asked him how he was doing. It was a freezing cold morning and grey clouds and mist had settled over London. He replied ‘ Oh you know, it’s a bit depressing at this time of year, but I guess it’s like this for all of us’. And I found myself quietly thinking - but it isn’t, is it? It isn’t anything like that for the lucky majority who can’t even begin to fathom the monotony of sitting on the street, day after day, week after week, month after month in the freezing cold. Thankfully we have no notion of what it is like to sleep out in Berkeley Square or Green Park because somehow we deem it safer as an option than a shelter. Lucky us. In that moment I felt profoundly aware not only of my ridiculous comparatively tiny dramas but also of the capacity each of us holds as a teacher of others. Angus, for instance, stripped of even the basic human right of a roof over his head encompasses enough grace and compassion to consider the perspective of those, arguably, far better off than him. That right there is a lesson in real yoga and it has nothing to do with lycra-clad Instagram poses. A human with crystal clear perception whose perspective is his yoga and keeps him positive through circumstances most of us would buckle under. And my yoga, with regards to Angus, is the yoga of letting things be, despite my opinion to the contrary. I have asked him time and time again if there is anything I can do to improve his situation, can I get an outreach team to him and get him into the system and eventually housed. The answer is always a flat no. He remains inflexible on this point and somewhat unhappily I have to respect that decision. This is the yoga of not meddling when you’ve been expressly told not to or the arrogance of thinking you know what is best for someone.