As each a pupil and a trainer of yoga I’ve noticed the tendency for college kids to develop an affinity to a sure trainer’s model and loyally observe that trainer. As a pupil I’ve discovered a number of lecturers over time through which I discovered the steering that I wanted on the time and due to this fact attended their lessons as usually as I may. As a trainer, it’s a great affirmation to develop relationships with college students that get pleasure from your lessons and attend usually. This trainer loyalty might serve the scholar by permitting them to progress down a sure path or enhance their observe of a selected model of yoga. In some unspecified time in the future, nevertheless, can trainer loyalty develop into limiting, like being caught in a rut?
There is a principle about college students and lecturers that claims a trainer receives the scholars that they’re ready to show. By the identical token, I feel that college students can profit by being receptive to the lecturers that come to them. That is to not say that to be yogi each pupil should love each trainer from whom they take a category. I’ve actually had the expertise of discovering lecturers that didn’t resonate with me for one purpose or one other. I’ve additionally discovered that if I permit myself to simply accept that trainer, regardless of no matter facet of their educating model or character that I discover difficult, I be taught one thing from them.
It is essential to do not forget that every yoga teacher brings completely different influences to their educating. They might observe completely different colleges of yoga or deal with completely different elements of the broad and numerous observe of yoga. Experimenting with completely different lecturers might increase a pupil’s yogic horizon and introduce them to a brand new pose, observe or method that can have a optimistic impression on their yoga observe and their life.
I’ve seen college students disengage from a category if there’s a substitute trainer, or cease coming to yoga class altogether if a favourite teacher is now not educating. I’ve to query this type of response. It suggests to me that some yoga college students suppose there’s a proper or unsuitable means of educating yoga, or that there’s just one means that they care to observe yoga. To my mind-set, such viewpoints are opposite to the philosophy of yoga.
There are such a lot of kinds and approaches to yoga and its educating, and all of them have worth. Maybe if a brand new trainer crosses your path there’s something so that you can be taught from them. Attempt to let your thoughts be open and contemplate that completely different shouldn’t be essentially unhealthy.
It is doable that one thing that new trainer has to supply is precisely what you want on the time. Perhaps you’ve got a current harm or medical situation, and this new trainer introduces you to a brand new pose, or mentions the advantages of a well-known pose, that may alleviate your ache. Perhaps you have been underneath a whole lot of stress in current weeks, and though your standard observe together with your favourite trainer is kind of fast-paced and difficult, the substitute has a gentler model which lets you discover some a lot wanted rest. Because the music goes, “You’ll be able to’t all the time get what you need, however when you strive generally, you simply may discover, you get what you want.”
I am not asking that you just break up together with your favourite yoga trainer, however give your self the chance to contemplate that one other trainer may additionally have one thing to give you.
