teachers

as i take more classes, there's about a handful of teachers i avoid at yoga. because i've had issues with authority my whole life, i'm hyper sensitive to instruction. the teachers i respond to are pretty cut and dry, and the only time they stray from the script is to give encouragement. i need the super positive guru. some believe it or not point out some students and hold up the entire class to wait for the student to move a microinch into the posture that the casual student (which we all pretty much are) will always strive to perfect because honestly, there is no perfection in those postures. you can always be straighter or stronger, that's the beauty of yoga, perfection is unattainable, yet motivating. you can always be better. they can pick out flaws in every person in the room, so why do it? why be negative?

anyway, some are drill sergeants, and they put me in a bad state of mind. stop barking at us! even if it's not me they're calling on, i want to tell them to leave the people they're picking on alone. i'll say something if they become a monkey on my back, so they resent my willfulness. but now that they post the teachers online, i avoid them so we're all happy.

too bad about the stupid teachers though. baffles my mind that they choose to conduct their class that way. they fail, choose a new livelihood, teaching is not for you. it makes all the difference in the world.