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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t want to watch you do all kinds of weird handstands only a gymnast can do. I don’t want to hear about chakras and why inversions are good or bad at this time of the month. I especially don’t want to be “adjusted “ ie touched and repositioned by the teacher- get your hands off me please for crying out loud! I don’t want to hear your narrative commentary about woo-woo poems or pseudo religious pondering, or anything else like that! I just want a good hard Vinyasa flow session with no chitchat. Why do all of the teachers use the spotlight to just blabber on and on?? I’m there to exercise! I love yoga because it makes me stronger, improves balance and flexibility, and nothing melts the fat like a hard yoga practice either. So why does yoga come with all of this nonsense?? And if you even so much as mention for the billionth time your next retreat in Greece, I am outta there!!

Anyone recommend a good hard athletic class with a serious instructor? Or a studio of this type?

If you are a yoga teacher please explain this silly showboating...? We lose at least 15 mins out of a one hour class with your “third eye breath in/breath out” bs.

*I realize this is not really a [i]REAL[/i] problem but anyway... namaste. :wink: [/quote]

I'm a yoga teacher who has been practicing 15 years, and I totally agree with you. Yoga teachers are some of the most annoying people I've known. Most people really have no idea what they are talking about. It's like most disciplines- those who are beginners think they know a lot and are eager to share, while the experts recognize how little they actually know and are humble. In reality, it takes years of chanting mantra-s and sutra-s, meditation, studying texts, etc until you can understand the teachings.

A good teacher understands what the student needs at that time and doesn't force what they *think* the student needs. Most of us come to yoga for the exercise component, and are only ready to receive the deeper teachings after years of practice. That's totally fine.

I also don't get the whole Hinduism/Buddhism fad in yoga classes. It's very powerful to study the religious tradition you were raised in and use that in conjunction with yoga, rather than one from halfway around the world that you have no real experience with. Most teachers also don't realize that "namaste" is a greeting said to elders to show respect, and that getting a tattoo of an om symbol is pretty offensive towards Hinduism.

I can't stand most yoga events because it turns into a big circle jerk where everyone tries to show off how much they know and how spiritual they are. Meanwhile the people who actually know their sh!t sneak off for steak and red wine, ha. 
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