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December 9, 2019 at 11:08 am #326723
AnonymousGuestDear Bun:
I read your posts in your thirteen threads. You read like an honest, direct person, telling it like it is, not asking for sympathy or pity, making light of things. I felt affection for you, while reading your writings.
Your current yoga teacher training experience- not at all in the spirit of yoga. I suppose it is a lot of physical exercise, devoid of the yoga philosophy of life. So what you have is a bad high school experience with a racist sentiment, as the cherry on top.
Depending on how long you have left, I am guessing that it is better for you to graduate the program and get the certificate, so that you can use it when you return to your country. Your previous work (clubs) was lucrative but didn’t fit your personality and reads to me that it caused or increased your anxiety and occasional depressed feeling. So better graduate this and try to make the best out of that certificate: use it to teach, but add the spirit of yoga to your teaching (a spirit that is lacking in your current training).
And post again, anytime. I will be glad to read from you and reply when you do post.
anita
December 9, 2019 at 1:30 pm #326759
InkyParticipantHi Bun,
Welcome to Yoga! *side serving of sarcasm*
Well who generally takes up yoga as a career? White, thin, vegan women who assume they are spiritual.
I’ve been in yoga classes where the women were crazily competitive (I live in a SUBURB not NYC *eyeroll*) and one where a teacher tried to call me out in front of the class, essentially saying I didn’t belong there. I was all, “I have children in pre-school. This is the only time I have for exercise before I pick them up. Would you rather I didn’t move my body at all? So I will keep going to this EASY Intermediate class.” (Inky does headstand and crow pose to gasps, claps and verbal thumbs up.)
Think of this as training for when you TEACH these types of women. They will be all “What does this brown (assumed) lesbian woman know that we don’t?” It will be like my experience in reverse. They will be HUGELY threatened by you. Again, this is training. It’s not just the yoga poses, you know.
Groups: Forget, just forget about alone time. It’s not going to happen. Learn to meld with the energy of the group. Pay attention ONLY to the three girls you get along with. The others just Don’t Exist, OK?
Good Luck!
Inky
April 14, 2022 at 2:23 pm #397943
MartusiaParticipantYes, my teacher training was very demanding; however, this past year I came across a new experience I never had before. I’ve been going to yoga for 20 years and after COVID19 most studios closed. The one I go to is a space everyone loves and yet, I don’t. I don’t like the owner; I find her so scattered and scatterbrained. She does not remember conversations we had a week prior or remembers them WRONG. She’s pushy, forceful and aggressive. I dread going and I’ve decided to move cities to go back to another studio I loved about 10 years ago. What a weird experience!
April 14, 2022 at 2:59 pm #397945AnonymousGuestDear Martusia:
From what I understand (and correct me if I am wrong) the path of yoga is about clarity of mind, communication, contentment and acceptance of the world, oneself, and circumstances exactly as they are, restraint from actions and words that may cause harm, and intense self-discipline, study of self and the practice of self-reflection.
So, it looks like the teacher you are referring to was “so scattered and scatterbrained” (not having a clear mind), and “pushy, forceful and aggressive” (not content, accepting or restrained)- so she was not at all on the yoga path?
anita
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