Mat Manners
Bad Yoga Behavior — Instructors Dish The Dirt
- Yoga Student (via lululemon)
We've gotten into the rich territory of ridiculous breaches of yoga etiquette before. People popping cans of Diet Coke during savasana, tighty-whities in Bikram...but that's all been from our the student perspective. What about the teacher perspective? The Phoenix New Times talked to yoga instructors, and they've compiled a list entitled of notable complaints entitled "Why Your Yoga Instructor Hates You." You've got the usual suspects — crackberry addicts, people leaving during savasana — but then there are a few surprises:
- Dirty feet. To be more explicit, "The bottom of your feet look like you walked through a Walmart barefoot to get to class."
- Skinny snobs. "Just because you have amazing genetics and don't hold an ounce of body fat doesn't mean you're better than me. You have to do the posture just the same as everyone else and don't expect praise from me just because your tiny shorts fit your perfect little booty like a glove."
There's plenty more where that came from. Other teachers out there, spill the beans! What do we do that drives you bonkers?
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I love the namby pamby yogi comments below. Paraphrasing: "I have been teaching yoga for years, and when I have one of those OMG moments I see how I can turn it back to myself."
Er, right lady/mister. I'm glad you can find meaning in tar heels or men sweating through white biker shorts.
Yoga. Pshaw.
Submitted by Mr. Mohawk on 09.15.10 at 12:26.
This was kind of a stupid article. There should be a blog article called "10 things that make me want to walk out of a yoga class."
When yoga teachers are good, they rock. When they suck...I get this extreme urge to throw and elbow at their nose. Not in a bad way though.
Submitted by Eis4Emily on 09.14.10 at 06:11.
I understand...I understand... but yet...you have NO idea what we yoga teachers see. I spent this last week in the company of a couple of hundred fellow yogis & yoga teachers in Boston with John Friend & we were swapping surreal stories - my favorites were from a friend who was in the midst of teaching a class when a student pulled out a Burger King bag & started noisily eating a burger in the front row while simultaneously doing asana. My other favorite story was when a friend of mine led his class into savasana & a male student reached to the row behind him to massage his girlfriend's feet. She responded by plunging her hands down her pants in an ...active manner...which lasted until he finally asked them to roll to the right & press your way up to sitting. For real. I'm just saying...
Submitted by Susanna Harwood... on 09.15.10 at 09:39.