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Yoga Faux Pas

52 replies

Thisnamechanger · 01/04/2019 23:16

Now I'm going several times a week I've noticed a few things that disrupt my peaceful zen-like feelings. Grin

  • someone taking a mat right next to someone else when there's only three people in the whole studio
  • someone else helping themselves to the props you've collected and stashed next to your mat mid-class when there are plenty for everyone in the cubbies
  • latecomers (I'm talking swanning in ten minutes into the meditation)

and my top pet peeve so far...

  • showing up DRIPPING wet with sweat from a run and proceeding to join a yin class and sweat all over the lovely beanbags and blankets BOAK

Other than that I'm calm as two calm things! Grin How about you?

OP posts:
EdWinchester · 31/05/2019 19:16

People being really territorial over their 'spot'. Pathetic.

And loud breathers.

bamboowarrior · 20/06/2019 21:01

Yoga faux pas - being so unkind and bitchy about other yoga students - we're all trying our best - how about generating some kind thoughts to those in your yoga class to help kickstart world peace 🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️🙏🙏

ZaraW · 23/06/2019 18:17

bamboowarrior or the people guilty of the faux pas realising that their behaviour may not be acceptable. I go to yoga to relax I don't appreciate loud breathers, people stepping on my mat and arriving to class late. Also, snoring in Shivasna is incredibly rude and disrupts the class.

bamboowarrior · 24/06/2019 17:16

Yes totally understand, Zara w, then always best to speak quietly with our yoga teacher and ask them to speak with the yogi concerned or make a general class announcement - maybe the offender is completely unaware of their upsetting behaviour and would love to be kindly guided : surely kinder path than ranting , or making fun of others, here 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️♥️🙏♥️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧘‍♀️

ZaraW · 24/06/2019 19:27

We will have to agree to disagree. Self awareness is important. When I went on holiday to Chang Mai I visited a new yoga studio. They had some specific requirements on hygiene I read their website before I went and knew what to expect. I find the comments amusing guess I'm not spiritually enlightened....

EmpressLesbianInChair · 15/12/2019 10:49

Mobiles ringing, despite the instructor telling everyone to turn them off every week!!

At my fairly crowded class, the teacher announces at the start that a) it’s best not to leave anything on the floor because she’s likely to step on it, and b) if she sees anyone even looking at their mobile, it will be confiscated for the duration of the lesson.

Any mobiles in the room tend to be put on the shelf very rapidly at that point Grin

bunhead34 · 21/02/2020 15:10

People who are already standing on their heads before the class even starts?!

(Maybe im just jealous🙈)

RoseLalonde · 27/02/2020 19:13

The thing that annoys me the most at yoga classes is when God himself descends from the heavens to tell me that the dark lord Lucifer is about to consume the entire population of Zimbabwe

Dozer · 27/02/2020 19:18

I have Envy of people able to go to yoga classes: where I am almost all classes are weekdays in the daytime.

Also Envy that you must go somewhere post if there are beanbags and blankets!

MysweetAudrina · 04/03/2020 21:16

Surely all these things that annoy you are your problem and that if you are not using your practice to overcome these feelings annoyance and irritation then are you really practicing yoga. I like the sound of snoring in savasana not that I would really notice it as I am practicing savasana. I am so focused on trying to coordinate my breath with my movement that I don't have the space to be judging others and if I find that I am then I know I have lost my breath and focus. Yoga for me is about learning how to manage my breath on and off the mat so that no matter what situation I find myself in , I can maintain my composure and self control. If something about someone else was annoying me I would take that as a cue to focus more on my own practice and less on outside factors. If I can't tolerate someone elses breathing or smell or proximity then how am i going to tolerate bigger issues in life off the mat.

bunhead34 · 05/03/2020 11:23

The other day I was in a class and the girl next to me had a cold, with tissues around her mat and was snuffling so loudly.
At one point her feet were on my mat.

That wouldn't annoy you?!

Mercurial123 · 05/03/2020 14:20

MysweetAudrina

Lol you wouldn't notice someone snoring is that because you are the one snoring? Google what annoys teachers in yoga classes and you'll find plenty of responses. Obviously they aren't as spiritually enlightened as you.....

MysweetAudrina · 05/03/2020 23:02

Not spiritually enlightened in any way shape or form. I don't practice yoga for spiritual reasons. I mainly do it to manage my anxiety. I find breath work really beneficial for this. When I am focusing on my breathing I am activating my parasympathetic system and so my response to things tends to be much calmer. If someone snoring or breathing is going to get under my skin then what hope have I of standing up and delivering a talk to 200 people or negotiating a position at a tense meeting. If I can't find my inner calm on the mat then I am hardly going to be able to access it off the mat. If something about someone else annoys me then thats my problem not theirs and I enjoy my yoga practice too much to let anyone interfere with it.

bunhead34 · 10/03/2020 20:07

Good job I don't have to do talks to 200 folk, or negotiate in important meetings

Mercurial123 · 11/03/2020 08:13

I've been meditating for years I get annoyed but it's just a fleeting thought and I move on. I had a private lesson with a yoga teacher of thirty plus years with an extensive meditation practice she was slightly annoyed by a student who walked into the studio. People are annoying.

evilharpy · 11/03/2020 09:06

Not much annoys me during a yoga (or pilates) class but I HATE HATE HATE people walking on my mat. It fills me with very unzenlike rage.

ElderAve · 11/03/2020 09:09

Your yoga classes sound awful.

We go, do our best and have a nice chat over coffee after. I couldn't tell you who has "weak practice" and if I could, I'd think well done for trying.

Mercurial123 · 11/03/2020 17:20

My yoga classes are excellent thanks.

Bellainey · 14/03/2020 15:02

I'm a bit worried about the comments about heavy breathing. I have a lung condition and find exercise hard. I frequently struggle with my breathing but find yoga really helps. Some really nasty comments on this thread

Tdaadfb100 · 04/06/2020 22:31

Mercurial123

I love Jason Crandell’s classes and I have done a couple of his his online courses but my yoga mates find him a bit ‘creepy’ for some reason. I don’t see it myself! I think he’s great! 😃

ZaraW · 06/06/2020 16:30

I love him he's such a good teacher, I don't find him creepy at all. His wife is awesome too. Love the podcasts they do.

sixthtimelucky · 07/06/2020 09:34

Bloody hell this thread is an eye opener!

I'm not the most tolerant or relaxed person and I've literally had none of these experiences in three years of going to my yoga classes, with several teachers and different participants. Maybe I'm the annoying one?!?!

I do think that - loud breathers and anybody being really distracting aside, oh and treading on other peoples' mats that's just rude and I've never seen that done - maybe people should be a bit more accepting. Who cares if someone's got all the gear and is 'weak', maybe getting all the gear is part of the experience and makes them feel good.

Bellainey · 07/06/2020 10:49

Loud breathers again. I should stop going. ☹️

sixthtimelucky · 07/06/2020 11:53

Bellainey - are you going to physical classes? I didn't know any had reopened. Loud breathers in life in general are very hard to stomach!