To be upset that yoga teacher told me not to come back to her class

[Gangle]

I've been going to a post natal yoga class since DS, now 7 months, was 6 weeks old. Really loved going as you could bring your baby and have them next to you whilst you did some yoga and had a chat with the other mums. A month or so ago the yoga teacher encouraged us to sign up for a chunk of classes and pay in advance so I signed up for a further 4. Anyway, on Wednesday I tried to go along as usual but was running very late as I'd been delayed at an earlier dentist appointment so got there for the last half hour of a 2 hour session. I got there to find there was no class. The teacher was just outside with someone else who had turned up late. I asked if there was no class - she looked pretty annoyed and said no, noone showed up. I said, oh well, see you next week. She then turned to me and said, actually, I would prefer you didn't come any more. Your baby is too mobile and I could step on him. I tried to say, I only have one class left before I go back to work, can I not just come to that as I really enjoy it, plus I've paid for it because you encouraged me to and didn't say there was an age limit but she interrupted me and said, another class is more suitable. Really quite upset by the way she handled it. DS is mobile but another baby more so and I assume she hasn't told this mum not to come! Couldn't she have just let me come to the final class - was my last anyway! Sure she only said it because she was peed off about noone coming to her class and wanted to have a go at someone! Rant over.

you had no idea class wan't on or you wouldn't have went. so you had every intention of entering a class and disturbing them if everyone else had turned up that day

Great attititude. 'Yoga not brain science' No wonder she gave you the boot.

Crikey. She sounds ever so up herself. Her yoga is obviously not the kind that makes people feel blissfully stress free. Definitely get your money back.

Well if thats the case, the instructor needs to a get a grip, its postnatal yoga fgs.

ooooh i think i need my bed. i seem to be arguing must be halloween bringing out the bitch witch in me.

get a refund. hope you find something else you and lo enjoy

For crying out loud!!! The issue isn't lateness!! The issue is being told I can't come to future classes NOT because I was late for this one (which didn't take place and teacher doesn't care about lateness anyway, lots of people often are and I've yet to find a yoga teacher who gives a toss, they're too ZEN for that) but because my 7 month old is apparently too mobile which she has never mentioned to me before.

I agree that you can't really turn up at a yoga class half way through. It depends on the yoga class, but if you turned up and suddenly threw yourself into the plough, you could do yourself a mischief.

Having said that she doesn't sound as though she has very good karmic energy. I would give it a miss.

If her lateness is why the instructor didn't want her to come, why didn't she say that?

She said it was because her baby is too mobile. Knowing perfectly well how mobile her baby was likely to be in 4 weeks time when she persuaded her to hand over dosh for the class next week.

What is she disturbing? Its POSTNATAL yoga, there are babies, who yell, fart and vomit all the way through it!

What about the rest of the class who didn't turn up ElmoandElla and Spiderhammer or did you not read that part? What about the dentist who kept me waiting 40 minutes? Lets condemn them whilst we're at it.

Perhaps this would be a good time for this thread to do final relaxation?

small ships we must go to different post natal yoga. we're made to power walk round the football pitches first till babies asleep then we go inside and do yoga.

perhaps i'm just spoilt by a well organised instructor.

op's instructor doesn't sound too great.

Is my initial thread not very clear??? Lateness nothing to do with it - if it was then she has to tell her entire class not to come back because NOONE turned up apart from me and one other girl, also late!

We walk around the gym, but they are babies and 99% wake up as soon as you put your mat out.

I think Gangle, you need to get a refund for your next session and find a better instructor, she sounds like a nightmare.

ommmmmmm shanti shanti

If any yoga should aim to cater for the slightly disorganised among us as well as the intolerant anal supple organised folk it is postnatal mother and baby yoga.

It sounds unfair to me. Is the class held at a gym? If so, complain to the management and ask for your money back. If they cannot accomodate babies who are mobile or over a certain age, they should state that. Or have a creche. I won't comment on the lateness of your arrival, as that is not meant to be point!

Bloody hell, a busy mum is late for a class once and is told she can't come back the following week. How up her own backside is the yoga teacher?

And surely a 7mth old is at best crawling, not running aroung pinching her arse!

YANBU in the slightest.

Oh and we never warm up in yoga either.

i think 6/7 months is when it stops being acceptable to take your baby to post natal exercise classes. i have a seven month old, who is not very mobile and i have cleared it with the teacher that he can keep coming for a few more weeks. it is a PITA though and a shame

I think turning up over an hour late sounds a bit weird, but your class ounds a bit unorthodox so if that is inline with how it is run it shouldnt be a problem, although it sounds unusual

lol miyazaki.

gangle. it's far better not to turn up to a class like other girls than turn up

1.5 hours late.

also, she said your dc was mobile??

what does she do? does she just play, or has she been known to touch the hifi equipment , play with plug sockets or remove toys from other dc. or even hang off leg of instructor??

unless she's doing any of these things i dont see how her mobility has anything to do with instructor ability to take class?

Yoga is a deep process. It's a proper big deal and if you don't get that you shouldn't be bothering with yoga. Either that or have a proper go, give it some respect, and let it take you somewhere good.

Yoga is as yoga does there's no in-between
Your either with it on the ball or you've blown the scene
I can see lookin' at you, you just can't get settled
How can I even move, twistin' like a pretzel

(Yoga is, yoga does)
(There's no in-between)
(Your either with it all the way) Or you've blown the scene
(Or you've blown the scene)

Come on come on, untwist my legs
Pull my arms a lot
How did I get so tied up
In this yoga knot
You tell me just how I can take this yoga serious
When all it ever gives to me is a pain in my posteriors

(Yoga is, yoga does)
(There's no in-between)
(Your either with it all the way) Or you've blown the scene
(Or you've blown the scene)

Stand upside down on your head, feet against the wall
A simple yoga exercise done by one and all
Now cross your eyes and hold your breath, look just like a clown
Yoga's sure to catch you if you come falling down

(Yoga is, yoga does)
(There's no in-between)
(Your either with it all the way) Or you've blown the scene
(Or you've blown the scene)

(Yoga is, yoga does)
(There's no in-between)
(Your either with it all the way) Or you've blown the scene
(Or you've blown the scene)

nice one half [hgin]

breathe
imagine you are on a beach, waves crashign around you.

LOL at yoga being a deep process to which you should commit completely.

So wtf are they offering it to mothers with babies under a year then? Don't they know that babies tend to interfere with anything you need to commit to or concentrate on?