How do you develop your intuition? And how might you use it pick the best yoga teacher training for you, or, really, to make any sort of decision of significance?
There’s a whole story around how I picked my first training. However, the boil down answer for me was: something about it simply felt right. Not to my head, of course, which wanted to spend the money in other ways, maybe go a different place, maybe not train at all . . . . My intuition is what said, “this one,” and as I had done over a decade’s work on honing my intuition at that point, I felt good about this feeling, recognized it.
So, to pick the right training or help yourself feel good about other decisions you need or want to make, work on developing your intuition! And then, importantly, develop the strength to trust it.
Ready to practice?
- Try practicing your intuition with food. It’s a small decision, typically without earth-shattering consequences, that you can make several times a day, and after you have finished your snack or meal, you’ll likely have a sense as to whether it was an impulsive or an intuitive choice, by noticing how you feel.
- Try chanting the following mantra for 7 or 11 minutes a day, for 40 days (or more): It’s called the Wah Yantee Mantra for Awakening the Intuition:
Posture: Sit in easy pose or on a chair (hands in lap both feet comfortably on the ground.)
Before chanting: tune in with Ong, Namo, Guru Dev, Namo (three times) to call on your highest consciousness to receive.
Mantra: Wah Yantee, Kar Yantee, Jag Dut Patee, Aadak It Whaa-Haa, Brahmaaday, Trayshaa Guru, It Wahe Guru
Translation: All that is creative through time, all that is the Great one. Three aspects of God: Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh. That is Wahe Guru.
Eyes: Close your eyes and gaze at your 3rd eye point, or just relax with eyes closed.
Time: 7 or 11 minutes
This mantra is such a significant part of the tradition of Kundalini Yoga (as is developing intuition) that it is traditionally chanted for 7 minutes each morning without fail, along with several other mantras in what’s called “Aquarian Sadhana.”
Sample from Jai-Jagdeesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njTJRGwaYIY