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 wish to retire after which imagining what it might be wish to proceed to play,” he stated.

Final month, Rodgers checked right into a sensory deprivation facility referred to as Sky Cave Retreats for a protracted keep in a room utterly devoid of sunshine. He had beforehand stated 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 mild on his choice, Rodgers stated 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 form of let no matter was gonna are available, are available. And it did. It positively did,” Rodgers stated.

He stated he anticipated some individuals wouldn’t be glad along with his reply.

“In the event you do not prefer it and also you suppose it is drama, you suppose I am being a diva or no matter, then simply tune it out,” he stated about this large choice. “That is fantastic. However that is my life. It is vital to me, and I will decide quickly sufficient, and we’ll go down that street and be actually enthusiastic about it.”

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Extra particulars on the retreat

Earlier than coming into the retreat, Rodgers informed “The Pat McAfee Present” that he was happening the darkness retreat for 4 days. However in line with reporting by ESPN, he reduce his keep quick by two days.

Scott Berman, who owns Sky Caves, stated that Rodgers stayed in a 300-square-foot room that’s partially underground construction and pitch black. His lodging included a queen mattress, a toilet, and a meditation mat.

Rodgers admitted to Marcus that it was troublesome to maneuver at midnight.

“The worst half was being disoriented, popping out of a kind of like meditations the place you suppose the mattress’s over right here. And that is how I bumped into issues a number of instances as a result of I feel, ‘I am good,’ and bang — I bumped into the wall, or dang, there’s the bath.”

However finally, he discovered the darkness invaluable.

“All of the solutions are proper inside me, and I touched lots of them — and positively the emotions — on either side through the darkness. I am grateful for that point,” he stated.