Oh yeah absolutely! People safety and wellbeing is so important but just judging someone because they ‘can’t do a pose’ is stupid and pointless and not the ethos of Yoga at all!
Yeah and the image isn't very subtle in which student they picked 😑 Hyper flexible people are often the ones doing stuff with their joints that make me cringe, not bigger people giving it their all.
A good teacher is going to keep their eyes open for students positioning themselves in ways that could strain their bodies. Some people sometimes have a hard time differentiating between “this is discomfort because it’s new” and “this is discomfort because it hurts”. That can especially happen with some neurodivergences and medical conditions. It can also happen when people try to show off, lol.
That ad is gross. It brings me joy to see anyone trying to improve themselves (whether that's through activity or simply by learning to be content in themselves). I'd really worry about that course.
But this downward dog is like, not even that bad? For someone with beginner strength/flexibility, it's okay. I'd probably suggest they slightly short their stance, deeper bend in the knees and try to flatten through the shoulders/shift weight back into their hips. It doesn't make me cringe, it makes me want to encourage this student to keep engaging with their practice.
I do find some cringe judgement like that creeping into my mind sometimes. I think it's pretty human. It happens most predictably when I am student practitioner of absolutely anything, not just asana, when I am at a point when I am solidifying my understanding of what I guess I would call an intermediate level of practice. That is, when I know enough to be practicing fairly well, whatever that means in context, but my confidence isn't yet high and also I am still looking around trying to figure out if my own understanding is as solid as I sometimes think it is.
That is, the line between being all judgy and intelligent, dispassionate yet compassionate discernment can be paper thin!
Heh. So maybe the cringer could be on the path to compassionate teacherhood! It's a phase. It's that it's exactly that serious intermediate time when I think a lot of people inclined to want to teach would have teaching in the back of their minds.
So ISSA and its marketing campaign here is doing that advertiser click-baity thing of exploiting people at vulnerable moments, and this ad is really quite reprehensible.
Because anyone who would exploit that condition in a student's progress has absolutely no business teaching yoga to anyone, as they clearly don't adhere to yogic ethics.
I mean, this ad has to transgress at least 7 of the 10 Patanjalic yamas and niyamas,
So, so not impressed.
Which is itself a judgment, but so be it. I have a lot of tolerance for grey areas, but sometimes things really are just inadvisable and indefensible.
I’d suggest if anyone is ‘cringing’ at someone’s pose they shouldn’t be a teacher at all.
Anticipating injuries can make you cringe. That's what I cringe from, not from looking down my nose.
Oh yeah absolutely! People safety and wellbeing is so important but just judging someone because they ‘can’t do a pose’ is stupid and pointless and not the ethos of Yoga at all!
Yeah and the image isn't very subtle in which student they picked 😑 Hyper flexible people are often the ones doing stuff with their joints that make me cringe, not bigger people giving it their all.
>Anticipating injuries why are you anticipating injuries? fearmongering makes me cringe.
Empathy. Try it on sometime. I hope it fits you.
A good teacher is going to keep their eyes open for students positioning themselves in ways that could strain their bodies. Some people sometimes have a hard time differentiating between “this is discomfort because it’s new” and “this is discomfort because it hurts”. That can especially happen with some neurodivergences and medical conditions. It can also happen when people try to show off, lol.
I hate this ad. Talk about entirely missing the point of yoga.
That ad is gross. It brings me joy to see anyone trying to improve themselves (whether that's through activity or simply by learning to be content in themselves). I'd really worry about that course.
Isn't this the downdog of every starting yogi? If my teacher had reacted this way I don't think I would've continued, lol. Terrible ad.
But this downward dog is like, not even that bad? For someone with beginner strength/flexibility, it's okay. I'd probably suggest they slightly short their stance, deeper bend in the knees and try to flatten through the shoulders/shift weight back into their hips. It doesn't make me cringe, it makes me want to encourage this student to keep engaging with their practice.
I don’t think “cringing” is a part of any good form for any yoga pose.
I do find some cringe judgement like that creeping into my mind sometimes. I think it's pretty human. It happens most predictably when I am student practitioner of absolutely anything, not just asana, when I am at a point when I am solidifying my understanding of what I guess I would call an intermediate level of practice. That is, when I know enough to be practicing fairly well, whatever that means in context, but my confidence isn't yet high and also I am still looking around trying to figure out if my own understanding is as solid as I sometimes think it is. That is, the line between being all judgy and intelligent, dispassionate yet compassionate discernment can be paper thin! Heh. So maybe the cringer could be on the path to compassionate teacherhood! It's a phase. It's that it's exactly that serious intermediate time when I think a lot of people inclined to want to teach would have teaching in the back of their minds. So ISSA and its marketing campaign here is doing that advertiser click-baity thing of exploiting people at vulnerable moments, and this ad is really quite reprehensible. Because anyone who would exploit that condition in a student's progress has absolutely no business teaching yoga to anyone, as they clearly don't adhere to yogic ethics. I mean, this ad has to transgress at least 7 of the 10 Patanjalic yamas and niyamas, So, so not impressed. Which is itself a judgment, but so be it. I have a lot of tolerance for grey areas, but sometimes things really are just inadvisable and indefensible.
I always go to where I am challenged by the pose. I don't care what I look like.
I legitimately thought it was satire 😞
Judging your students and cringing at them is antithetical to both yoga and pedagogy