Adjustments during class - AIBU?

[CoteDAzur]

So, I tried a new teacher the other day because mine was one holiday. All well and good, until she bears down on me with no warning while I'm in 'happy baby'. I yelped .

OK she might want to help me go deeper into a pose, but AIBU to expect fair warning before an adjustment AND not to be so far pushed as to hurt? It felt like she was sitting on me.

I don't think you are unreasonable.

I don't do public classes, though, so probably not the best person to judge, but that sounds fairly disrespectful to me. Not only that, but it's your body, only you are in the position to judge/feel whether you can go deeper in that pose or not.

I find my happy baby pose quite uncomfortable unless I ease into it due to relative limb lengths and tight hip joints, so I'd be really quite cross if someone forced me to go deeper before I was ready to do so.

Don't you think a teacher can at least ask "May I touch you?" or something similar?

I heard of teachers who ask at the beginning of class if some people don't wish to be touched during class. That might be an idea, too.

My teachers have always asked permission if they wanted to make adjustments to a pose. I don't think that's unreasonable.

The teacher in today's class adjusted me a couple of times. She didn't ask but did do it very gently. I find it helpful.

I don't mind a gentle touch but surely a teacher bearing down on someone with her full weight without warning is not on?

I don't mind adjustments or being touched, but only by my own (private) yoga teacher who knows me very well! Not on for a teacher you don't know to move in on you.

Yeah, I think it's definitely the force of the touch that's really bad here. I don't think I'd mind touch for cueing or gentle adjustment. But only you know how deep it's safe for you to go.

Good quote from Kira Ryder I heard today (may have mangled this as writing from memory, but the gist is the same): "It's important not to rush or to force or all you'll learn is force"

Good quote, RubberDuck

Saw this today on Facebook and thought of you, CoteDAzur

Too true. Not enquire the way my yoga instructor would put it but hey ho..

Not quite the way, rather.