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[Guest guest]

Sat Nam Mal:

 

> Well, no one showed up to practice yoga tonight---it made me kind

 

Good for you for preferring to focus on a positive aspect of this

(not uncommon) experience!

 

No matter what, we shouldn't take this as any personal rejection.

Practicing yoga is no easy thing - it causes us (and our students) to

confront difficult emotional issues (for example). Conscious self-

healing takes effort, and all of us experience resistance in many

ways. Students will come every week for months on end - and then

vanish, perhaps re-appearing a year later to say "Gosh, I wish I

hadn't let go of my practice".

 

I teach a Sunday morning sadhana at 5:30 am - in the dark of

midwinter, with snow falling, it is always a happy surprise when

anyone at all shows up - and a real blessing that it is usually quite

well-attended.

 

A helpful thing for a teacher generally (and for not taking this sort

of thing personally) is to recite the Teacher's Oath before class

(you can do it out loud or silently, as you prefer). It works like

this:

 

Hold your left hand up by your left shoulder, fingers together and

straight, palm forward. Bend the corresponding finger down as you

repeat each part of the oath, and straighten it back up before the

next one.

 

I'm not a woman - pinkie

I'm not a man - ring

I'm not a person - middle

I'm not myself - index

I'm a teacher - thumb

 

Then close your eyes and focus at the 3rd eye, and chant "Ong Namo

Guru Dev Namo" 3 times.

 

Love & blessings,

Sadhant

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam! I would love to lead an early morning sadhana some day! That is

great. I used to join my yoga teacher in Buffalo some days when I lived

near by and it was always blissful.

 

On the topic of having no one show up that has happenned to me more than

once! I would think about it and how perhaps I was just not ready or it was

not the time or whatever. Now I've pretty much given up on all the

rationalization and just

 

I want to thank you Sanhant for posting the teacher's oath. I've never

heard of it before and I am excited to try it out next week in class. Is

this something Yogi Bhajan has taught us?

 

Love Always,

Sat Siri Akal,

 

littlebird Leslie

AKA Guru Chiter Kaur

 

 

 

 

I'm not a woman - pinkie

I'm not a man - ring

I'm not a person - middle

I'm not myself - index

I'm a teacher - thumb

 

Then close your eyes and focus at the 3rd eye, and chant "Ong Namo

Guru Dev Namo" 3 times.

 

Love & blessings,

Sadhant