About teacher training always I got questions: is it worth it?
My answer is of course. Stick to the practice and away from everything, focusing only one thing ON YOURSELF to help you to get through on a rough path.
When I arrived in Nepal I was filled with my everything. COVID hit my job a bit, and for a while, I have not been doing anything so deep lately. I wanted to have something different, and extra. Many times I think about my supersensitivity (after I realized that supersensitivity is exist). I tried so hard to balance my relationship, yoga, gym, girlfriend, supporter and friend, and child roles. It’s impossible to be ok and 100% everywhere.
“teaching the Dharma by the middle”
Buddha
So for me, the middle path is the hardest. I do something hard, or I don’t. I never try, I do. If you know me you also know I’m kinda maximalist, but also I have a compulsion for conformity.
If we think about humanity: people like what is easy and comfortable. And what do you think, what can help you to move out of your comfort zone? If you go somewhere and do something for yourself, that you have never done in your life. Nepal was out of my comfort zone.
Waking up early, practicing, eating and practicing again, sleeping early, and waking up again. It’s not the middle path of course. But it’s learning, and for learning, you have to be intensive. If you start practicing yoga, you can’t just practice once per week. Because it’s not just an exercise. It was not comfortable, and it was not easy. It was hard, tough, and painful as well. But totally deserves.
But if you start to practice, you gonna feel, you would like to practice more and more. When somebody goes somewhere to have a Yoga retreat in a 5 stars hotel, that person won’t get what she/he wanted.
Bhagavad Gita
BG 2.70: Just as the ocean remains undisturbed by the incessant flow of waters from rivers merging into it, likewise the sage who is unmoved despite the flow of desirable objects all around him attains peace, and not the person who strives to satisfy desires.
