About Matt Gluck

Hi. I am a 40 year old yoga teacher living in Hertfordshire. This is my current label, which when I associate too closely with, restricts me.

Life teaches me in the now. I am not this body, this flesh which dissolves and renews itself without my asking. I am not the 'Yoga teacher' dude that I would like to think that I am. Neither am I that which you think that I am. I know that you aren't what I think that you are. You have proven this to me on so many occasions.

All of these thoughts are projections.They are the masterpiece being set down on the canvas, yet they are not  the whole picture; they don't include the borders or beyond, the painter and the labrynth of his mind. These thoughts can only be of his past and future which he continually refers to in order to project his ill-usive self. There can be no thought in the now, as by the end of each word, we are in the past

Life brought me to a place of knowing that truth and the way emanate from the presence within, which truly is my real self. The less I try the more I achieve. The less attached I am to my names and labels, the less I associate myself to be my sensitve, proud and arrogant ego. I don’t take my personality so seriously anymore and enjoy laughing at myself. This all brings me to the stillness. I can hear all the noise or silence around and within me and I can see the madness in the world that abounds, yet my cellular breath has taught me that she controls things and that to listen to her is to be in tune with my Self. She fades away and the nothingness remains. I often find myself catapulted back out by a surge of joy or laughter.

In order to walk my path steadily, I have needed to wonder wayward many times. Lose the self to find the self, forget the self to reveal the self. I have always believed ‘the cure is in the pain’ and have realised that it was my asthma that revealed to me the subtleties of stillness and meditation and not all the books and teachers’ add-vice along the way.

My mother introduced me to yoga when I was five, in the hope that it would cure my asthma. She taught me basic breathing exercises and showed me how she meditated, focusing her energy inwards towards her spirit. I practiced postures sporadically as I found them painful and difficult. I enjoyed sitting to meditate and realised this to be a natural process which I discovered through years of sleepless nights and breathing problems.

Whenever I was sick, I was aware of the divine presence, which presented itself to me in the form of visions and dreams or the love of my family and close friends. This love always dissolved my troubles.

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