no, it really IS me
let's just make one thing abundantly clear ... if i come take a yoga class with you, i'm not giving you feedback after.
i realize this is not a popular stance. in fact, most people don't even wait for an invitation before bestowing you with their pearls of wisdom.
and it's not because i don't have an opinion. oh no - i've got plenty of those. i know what i like and what i don't like. i know what appeals to me and what doesn't.
and just to prove it, so you won't ask me again - i'll let you know, just this once, exactly what i think of your class:
opinion feedback. so then just be forewarned, if you ask me what i think, you best know ...
... each and everyload of crap "pearl of wisdom" i bestow has WAY more to do with me than it does with you/him/her/it.
i realize this is not a popular stance. in fact, most people don't even wait for an invitation before bestowing you with their pearls of wisdom.
and it's not because i don't have an opinion. oh no - i've got plenty of those. i know what i like and what i don't like. i know what appeals to me and what doesn't.
and just to prove it, so you won't ask me again - i'll let you know, just this once, exactly what i think of your class:
- hello mr. bikram ... i'm not sure anyone has ever told you this, but your class is too effin hot. quite frankly, it's so hot that i have to work way harder to keep my shit together on the mat. everything becomes laborious in that kind of heat - even breathing. so i have to concentrate, focus, and work harder than i really care to, thank you very much.
- dear mr. friend ... i'll just say this straight out: you talk too much. do this ... do that ... pull in here, spiral there, expand, contract, turn in, turn out. ugh. i like my habitual way of practicing and, contrary to politics - i'm not such a fan of change. i'm into the comfortable way of doing things, not necessarily the better way.
- i must say, mr. iyengar ... your book is my bible. but your class, well ... read my note to mr. friend and then i'll add one more piece of feedback: we have 90 minutes, so add some more postures, would ya? you see, i get bored if i'm not constantly stimulated with new information and your idea of getting me to spend time and go deeper may have intelligence but doesn't compute with my ADHD. anyhow, i've grown somewhat attached to my injuries.
- i apologize, sri pattabhi jois ... i've called some of your postures
hardstupid. (actually, it was my daughter who did, but i will take full responsibility for her attitude because she most likely got it from me.) it's just that some of your postures take months, even years of work - and i'm talking the every-day-kind-of-work. who has that kind of dedication and commitment? what's worse, it seems i can't just slide ahead when i feel like it - and that just busts on my ego!
- while i have the floor, i'd like to let mr. dharma mittra know now that i don't really like to backbend, to my flowgis, i have two left feet and suck at their dance, and even my fellow rocketeers - i despise eka pada koundinyasana, so can we just delete that from the sequence altogether?
... each and every
Posted by peg mulqueen at 9/21/2011 10:29 AM 
Categories: sri k. patthabhi jois, ashtanga yoga, yoga class, yoga, bikram yoga, dharma mittra
Tags: ashtanga iyengar anusara john friend
Categories: sri k. patthabhi jois, ashtanga yoga, yoga class, yoga, bikram yoga, dharma mittra
Tags: ashtanga iyengar anusara john friend
I understand(hope) that this was supposed to be humorous. Underneath all humor there are grains of truth. I wonder if there is any reason for you to go to a class at all since you already know everything that you need and want. I spend a lot of time and energy studying yoga in hopes that I can help people to improve their lives. The attitude you portray here denigrates all that work. Please re-think your position. Namaste
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thanks for your feedback and good luck in your studies. who said, "we see things not as they are - but as WE are?"
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