Training - how to be?

Just like for Sadhguru himself my reasons for doing yoga were all wrong. I also went to the Teacher Training at Isha for all the wrong reasons, little did I know it was the only right thing to do.

Now after the training is over and I can never go again as a participant it is a bittersweet realization. While at the training there were times when I wished it was already over and I counted days to graduation on the December 18th.

But those moments were only few and far between. Please understand; you wake up at 4.15am! to be ready for ‘Guru Puja’ at 5.30am. Then only few weeks later you are thinking what luxury it was to wake up at 4.15am, since now it’s 3.45am! And even waking up at this ungodly hour, you still not done and ready with all the tasks for the day…

So how to be during the training so that you don’t regret going, or don’t regret you could have participated more once it’s over?

Just accept everything.

Only a total acceptance will allow you to participate 100%.

There was so much resistance in me in the first weeks, that I missed the main point of the training - be there for everything and everyone. Just like Sadhguru said: ‘…this moment is inevitable…’

It was very hard for me to distance myself from my phone and internet, habits, compulsions, likes and dislikes. How could I go to that activity at that particular time if it was Wednesday?! Wednesday was the day for doing laundry. Or how can I volunteer for this event if I still have so many other things to do or family members to chat with?

So yes, I often chose to do the chores instead of that one thing or activity that I knew would never happen again…

Don’t be like me! Participate.