Aaron Rodgers, the star quarterback of the NFL’s Inexperienced Bay Packers, simply returned from a darkness retreat in Oregon, the place he deliberate to determine whether or not he would play subsequent season or retire.
Showing on Aubrey Marcus’s podcast, Rodgers spoke for the primary time about his journey into darkness for 2 days.
“I spent components of a few days imagining what it might be prefer to retire after which imagining what it might be prefer to proceed to play,” he mentioned.
Final month, Rodgers checked right into a sensory deprivation facility known as Sky Cave Retreats for a chronic keep in a room fully devoid of sunshine. He had beforehand mentioned that he was spending the time in isolation “have a greater sense of the place I am at in my life.”
When requested if the darkness retreat shed any gentle on his determination, Rodgers mentioned he nonetheless wasn’t certain however would know quickly.
“I actually wished to ponder some issues with some relationships in my life, some household stuff, after which clearly profession stuff, simply type of let no matter was gonna are available in, are available in. And it did. It undoubtedly did,” Rodgers mentioned.
He mentioned he anticipated some folks wouldn’t be glad together with his reply.
“In case you do not prefer it and also you assume it is drama, you assume I am being a diva or no matter, then simply tune it out,” he mentioned about this massive determination. “That is nice. However that is my life. It is vital to me, and I am going to decide quickly sufficient, and we’ll go down that highway and be actually enthusiastic about it.”
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Extra particulars on the retreat
Earlier than getting into the retreat, Rodgers instructed “The Pat McAfee Present” that he was occurring the darkness retreat for 4 days. However in line with reporting by ESPN, he lower his keep brief by two days.
Scott Berman, who owns Sky Caves, mentioned that Rodgers stayed in a 300-square-foot room that’s partially underground construction and pitch black. His lodging included a queen mattress, a rest room, and a meditation mat.
Rodgers admitted to Marcus that it was troublesome to maneuver at nighttime.
“The worst half was being disoriented, popping out of a type of like meditations the place you assume the mattress’s over right here. And that is how I bumped into issues a number of instances as a result of I believe, ‘I am good,’ and bang — I bumped into the wall, or dang, there’s the bath.”
However in the end, he discovered the darkness worthwhile.
“All of the solutions are proper inside me, and I touched a lot of them — and undoubtedly the emotions — on either side in the course of the darkness. I am grateful for that point,” he mentioned.
