To complain about my yoga studio nemesis

I know exactly what you mean! At a spin class I go to an older gentleman makes what I can only describe as constant groaning - inbetween calling out ‘yeah’. It’s honestly so inappropriate. I notice no one wants to ride on a bike next to him!

@Goodmorningvinyasa is it Bikram Yoga? I can understand why it's problematic to catch your breath and then tell somebody to move in the moment.

That is exactly why they shouldn't be letting people in late. I know someone who goes to those classes - it's pretty full on isn't it? You've got 90 seconds with poses or something like that?

I’m a Pilates instructor and I’d want to know if you weren’t enjoying my class for whatever reason.

I’d speak to the instructor to double check the late policy. Then mention the safety aspects of him being too close to you. I think people listen when it comes from the instructor and she can word it politely ‘look inconsiderate man, there’s plenty of room towards the front here so everyone has space round the mat’.

She can also announce her late policy an that if anyone does arrive late they go to her and she places their mat somewhere (only if room) if no room they leave

Just say something about the spacing OP.
Although somehow it doesnt surprise me that a bloke try manspreading during yoga...
I wonder if he is also the type who likes to 'dominate' train seats and indulge in performative sneezing!LOL😆

Sigh….ok I know MN has a reputation for us hating all men (I categorically don’t for the record) but it is always men isn’t it who have to huff and puff and make a big performance in a yoga/pilates class and disturb everyone else, or sit hogging machines for ages in the gym farting around on their phones whilst the rest of us get on with it.

There was a guy doing something similar in the lane swimming session.

Using swim gloves and some other bit of kit, jumps in with no regard for anyone, exaggerated stroke, splashing everywhere, just a really shit attitude.

Like no-one else is entitled to quiet enjoyment of their swim.

I hear you! There is a woman who comes to a weight class. Medium sized studio. Capacity class of 16 people with bars and free weights and a mat and step. We all position ourselves in rows slightly staggered like brick work. That way everyone can see the mirrors/instructor.

The woman comes in- never adheres to the staggered rows and pretty much slaps herself right in the centre. So you have people squished at the back and sides. It’s very very annoying.

if I am close I say- “might be easier if you go forward and across a bit” and she does. But it is eveytime. The entitlement is bonkers

Fish, Scorpion, Tree, Locust, Pigeon, Cow Face, Peacock…
There's more and more now I think of it!

Yep! Cobra, Cat and Cow, Eagle.....

Every morning when our dogs wake up they do their yoga stretches and I always find it so amazing that it just comes naturally to them and they don't need to pay a tenner a class to do them 😆

My fully-legged dog does do the ‘Downward-Dog’ pose occasionally though
The yoga pose was named for dogs stretching like this And Upward Dog for the one where they put their front legs on the floor and stretch their back legs/bum up in the air. A lot of yoga poses are named for animals and things in the natural world.

You should talk to the instructor. She can check their late policy and ehen the dude comes in she can ask him to bring his mat forward etc. It doesn't have to be a complaint, it can be just pointing out something.

???

All you need to do as others said is was just get the instructor to announce to be mindful about mat placement and walking around
I’m not getting the drama

by the sounds of it you were pissed off at him being late and it just went downhill from there tbh I think anything he did would just piss you off

you’ll be gunning for him soon as you go into your next class

you’d hate my class there the click at the front left that put mats out for there friends and guard empty mats like they nation treasure they will move you if you put a mat there, 1 guy that uses about 5 blocks stack up ,guy that grunts a woman who breathes out line like she’s trying to expel satan from her soul there’s a silent but deadly mystery garter but I have my suspicions

I had exactly the same experience. What is it with some people and having a complete inability to behave appropriately in a public space?

@Goodmorningvinyasa Hehe I wouldn’t know as I’m disabled so the last place you’d find me is in any kind of studio but it did give me a funny visual. My fully-legged dog does do the ‘Downward-Dog’ pose occasionally though ☺️

You do realise some of us have hyperhidrosis and cannot bloody help it don’t you?!? There’s nothing ‘repulsive’ about it, it is actually just water! It’s only bacteria-ridden when left on the skin for a while.

Usual bit of Mumsnet ableism! Reported.

One legged dog! 🤣

I don't disagree with the general principles (I used to do yoga classes at a studio next to a very well-used London park/green, so would often meditate to the sounds of football games, kids shouting, dogs barking etc!), but people kicking other students in yoga is obviously a health and safety hazard, and I would have thought the studio would be more vigilant about it. Apart from anything else, they are making themselves vulnerable to litigation if anyone should get injured.

I would ask him to move the minute he plonked his mat down. Even if it was super quiet. Otherwise you will ruin your own practice worrying about his flailing limbs.

My DH took up Pilates a while back.

I told him not to do any performance breathing & to be careful about people's "spots".

Now he's been going a while, he totally understands why. He even got very cross recently when a new bloke turned up & was noisy.

Definitely say something if he's in your space. It's not ok.

This. You can ask him to move so you’re not discommoded, OP, but everything else is pretty standard yoga class minor annoyance stuff.