“Anybody who is a teacher, has to be a perfect student first. There is no perfect teacher or a perfect master who is not a perfect student. Because without becoming a perfect student, you do not have perfect experience, therefore you cannot share your perfection. So, whatever you are going to say either it’s going to be book knowledge or it’s going to be your dreams.” The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan, March 6, 1991
I love this quote. We are in the Aquarian Age now. The Age of Experience. In the Piscean Age, we knew because we read it or heard it from an influencial person. But, in the Aquarian Age, we know something because we experience it. A Teacher or Master of anything must constantly be a student, experimenting with and experiencing new depths of their craft and mastery. As a Kundalini Yoga Teachers and Trainers of Teachers, it is absolutely critical that we use ourselves as labratories to experience the depth of a yoga kriya, pranayam or meditation. What are the effects physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. How is our consciousness altered? How else can we be authenic in our teaching to others? This is the least we can give…authenticity.