Master's Touch

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Sat Nam All,

 

On Sept. 5th I returned form NM where I was attending The Master's

Touch KY Teacher's Training....since then I have been wading through

the 300 e-mails from you all!! I finally finished, I'm up to date!

 

I wanted to share alittle bit about my experience at the Master's

Touch course with each of you....

 

Overall, I was glad that I went....it was an intense experience.

For me, it wasn't challenging, material wise....I was already

familiar with the material we covered (having been teaching for some

time now)....but it was intense, experience wise.

 

Living with 80 people in such close quarters for 21 days requires

that one stays conscious in every moment. I realized after I

arrived, the experience for me was about finally being fully

immersed in the experience of a yogic community.....as some of you

know, I am always talking about trying to foster that kind of

community in my home city....because I crave it so deeply. One

thing that Hari Kaur said to me that stuck was a quote of

YB's. "Let us not only live "with" each other, but let us

live "for" each other". I thought that really summed up the idea of

group consciousness nicely and the relationship between I and Thou.

 

Our mornings began with the recitation of japji at 3:45am...4-5am

KY...... 5-6am meditation.......breakfast at 7:30am...class began at

8:30...went til 5pm then we beagn again at 6:30pm-8:30pm...and in

bed by 9pm. Our days were full. I took to missing breakfast and

going back to bed for an hour and a half after sadhana....this way I

wasn't tired throughout the day. I am a huge fan of sadhana, so

this was great to be able to participate with others in this

experience.

 

The first week I was there I went through the physical

wringer......inflamation, pain and my neck was so locked I couldn't

turn my head....all of this while we were doing our posture

focus....the best i could do was to lay there for alot of it.

Everybody was so helpful and caring. I had reiki healings,

reflexology and massage offered to me over this time...and accepted

all of it. It was wonderful to have so many people caring for my

well-being.

 

I experienced a lot of transformation....alot of subconscious

thoughts I had been harbouring, bubbled to the surface throughout

the 3 weeks...alot around being a woman (the power or percieved lack

of power that comes with that) and also regarding the idea of one

needing a "middleman" to have an experience God within....and the

anger and frustration I experience around that kind of belief system.

 

Some of the highlights of the course....

 

2 days of sound and mantra......we sang and sang for hours....this

was finally what unlocked my neck. I had wished we had had 10 days

of this!!! I got to go up on the stage and sing back up, during one

of the sadhana's....which was a lot of fun for me!

 

I also got to lead the group in reciting Japji one morning....which

I had secretly been hoping to have the chance to do.

 

We did 31 minutes of Sat Kriya in the postures session.

 

GuruCharan spent a few days with us, putting us through "buddha

bootcamp" as one participant called it. I love meditation and the

mind, so these were physically challenging times for me, but also

enjoyable for the content covered.

 

We did 2.5 hours of long Eck Ong Kars on Yogi Bhajan's

birthday.....I got to go on stage and lead the group for an hour of

it and it was a phenomenal experience! Any pain I had been

experiencing completely vanished the moment I sat down and it was

like a flow of everything was coming in through my crown....and

everything was perfect in the world for that one hour. Moments of

Grace.

 

We went to Yogi Bhajan's house one night and did a meditation in his

garden.

 

We went to Yogi Bhajan's birthday party and GuruGanesha, Snatam,

Dev Suroop kaur, Krisha kaur,Sangeet Kaur amoung other muscians,

performed for us...it was very beautiful.

 

Yogi Bhajan was bedridden and was unable to see us the whole time we

were there.....this disappointed me considering that's a big part of

the reason I went to NM....to sit at the feet of the Master.....on

my last day of Sadhana after we had finished and I sat in the

silence that follows, I felt my whole being pulsing and it was

pulsing in everything outside of me as well....there was nothing

outside of me that wasn't within me as well in this moment....and I

began to notice that everyone that i wanted to feel connected to

(whether physically here or not) were there, present in this vast

cocoon of pulsing...no separation. It was in this moment that i

realized the master is within all of the teachings....within all of

the teachers we had been exposed to...and within each of us....so

infact, I had been sitting at the feet of the master all along. My

percieved lack, hadn't been lacking at all.

 

As I shared this realization with my smaller group that I met with

every morning, the person sitting across from me pointed out to me

that I was in fact at the feet of the master.....I then turned

around, to find myself sitting infront of a 9 foot poster of Yogi

Bhajan....and I was at his feet.

 

Everytime I go away for one of these events, I always return with a

sense of gratitude for what I have been blessed with here in my home

town. In the past, I have often felt jealous of the people who were

privileged to sit at Yogi Bhajan's feet and to be taught by the

master over the last 30 years....and have often wondered why that

couldn't have been me? But this time, it strongly dawned on me that

I have been blessed in that way and more.....over the past 5 years I

have been sitting at the feet of a masterful teacher.....and I

didn't have to look any farther for it, then a couple of miles away

from my home. I have truly been blessed in that privilege.

 

All Love in the Divine,

Sat Sangeet

AB, Canada