Why I Quit Being a Yoga Instructor After 10 Years
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2020
- After 10 years of teaching Yoga I stopped teaching it entirely due to very important reasons which I will share in this video. I ran my own yoga school, taught in yoga festivals, went to India for a spiritual trip and did the whole thing. Yet after it all I realized that no matter how much positive claims yoga instructors make - there is a very dark side to it all that needs to be addressed.
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For years I used to have a lack of critical thinking. I used to believe many things which had little evidence or truth behind them. These beliefs led me to decisions which did not turn out to my favor. Eventually I discovered critical thinking and changed my life for the better. Now I choose what I believe in with much more care. Make better, more informed decisions and enjoy the results. Yet it doesn’t take much time to see that many people still fail to separate true information from false. That’s why I created the Practical Critical Thinkers channel.
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In this channel you will learn what is critical thinking, various critical thinking skills, find critical thinking exercises, learn how to use critical thinking in a debate, learn about the best critical thinking books out there, find critical thinking tutorials what results a lack of critical thinking has and much more.
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You’re sunshine personality shines through it’s a joy to listen. Thank you for the insight.
Dude, honestly, you are explaining WHY you should continue. Ostensibly, yoga has several components. You only discussed the Asanas, and you left out the spiritual component. That's honestly what I found lacking in most Yoga teachers. I am fortunate that I began practice outside of the United States, but very few teachers here in NYC bring any spiritually information into their class. Be the change you want. I've seen your other videos and you can actually be someone who helps Yoga grow.
All the points you made are so good. Thanks for bringing up these questions.
I just wanna say thank you for your honesty and bravery! To reveal these points and specifically, quitting your career as a mentor!! however you’ve been a kinda experienced yogi for many years!! You’ve made an incredible decision based on your intuition! Even though it was tough of course!
World is proud of you for having such a good guy!😊👍🏻
While I’ve been contemplating about the path of Yoga training, I can across your video and haven’t realized that you’re from Lithuania, too. Great and thorough content! 👌
Good solid info, thanks so much!
I am sorry that you have had bad teachers and a bad experience. I did not feel ready to teach after my first 200hr training, but I went and did another one, and another one, and another one.. What I realized actually is that 200hr training, which is the Yoga Alliance minimum requirement and what most teachers have, is really not enough to be a teacher. It personally took me 10 yrs of learning (and it never stops). It is sad that many teachers don't get further education but I believe it is also the practicioner's responsibility to seek out the teacher who has had more education. Few of the things you mentioned in regards to alignment that you have heard from other teachers are absolutely ridiculous and shows how little knowledge they had. However, it is their lack of education and not yoga that is at fault, and unfortunately yoga gets a bad rep because of that. I have been teaching now for 20 years and I can still say that it is the most rewarding and fulfilling calling. I have never had a student injure themselves in class while I've seen amazing transformations in both physical and mental aspects. At the same time I know that many get injured and I have also had a teacher injure me in the past, but that will happen in any activity where the teacher isn't properly trained. What I'm trying to say is - yoga teachers: get more training in areas where you're lacking. Different schools will have a different focus so if your first training was with school that was more esoteric for example and less focused on physical practice, anatomy and alignment, then this is where you need to get more education, and vice versa. Yoga practicioners: it takes a lot of searching to find the right teacher but in the end it is worth it. A knowledgeable teacher will approach the practice progressively, with correct anatomical alignment and sequenceing, adjusted always to the audience and its ability and in a loving way - making suggestions but always encouraging you to listen to your body and develop the inner teacher. They will recognizing the student's optimal alignment on each day as it changes - it's alive, organic, and approach it accordingly. I believe that yoga has so much to offer and it is really a pity that the standard for becoming a teacher isn't higher and then people have bad experience when they could be life changing.
You teach online? I am from India. Where should I go to learn? And do you have any handle where I can follow you for yoga?
Nobody becomes in 200hr a teacher in anything I also think thats the whole issue of the (western)yoga hype, they pop-up from out of nowhere.
even Iyengar said himself the the knowledge was escaping him for at least the first decade, he was mechanically practicing until then. as a uni teacher myself I can confirm that everyone is learning and understanding at a different time and pace. putting a number on knowledge like you said about the 200 hours may be beneficial to create sellable programmes, but it's also plain stupid. you (everyone) get it, when you get it 🙂 nice comment 🙂
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Your video is like a fresh air. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I don't like teaching yoga in a group because of the reasons you listed in this video... I totally agree that teaching yoga or any fitness is a LOT of REASPONSIBILITY not just for your body, but for other people's bodies... KNOWLEDGE of ANATOMY and KINSIOLOGY is a MUST. I prefer on-on-one sessions, where I spend more time with the person... And even then, it's so individual and it totally depends on person's anatomy... Great video. Thank you!!! Amount of fat in your hip in trikonasana ???? Really??? LOL
Really love and resonate with this. A lot of people are hesitant to say what you’re saying but I definitely agree. I have a very similar story as yours with practicing the other aspects of yoga - meditation, breath, yamas & niyamas etc. and the asanas came much later. Fast forward, have been practicing yoga for about 10 years and 5 years in martial arts I have continuously found the importance of studying more and more anatomy and physiology and a more evolutionary approach to the physical aspects of yoga (on top of the spiritual practice) and it began to make A LOT more sense. Thank you for sharing this!
I appreciate your opinions on what you have experienced as a yoga instructor and what faults you see in the yoga teacher training certification. Being a yoga instructor myself, I do have some questions:
- why were you being told how to structure your yoga classes? You speak on being told to teach certain postures that you didn't feel comfortable with, but I have always had free reign on the entire construction of my yoga classes. If there are any poses I am unsure of or don't want to practice I continue my studies on it or just refrain from teaching it altogether.
- If you have read many ancient yogic books, then you must know yoga was not brought into the US until the 1970s. While this was 50 years ago, do you feel that we could have the accurate scientific knowledge behind the benefits/effects in the body after only that amount of time? Yoga has been around being taught in the East since at least 2700 BC, so I feel this is not a fair argument for us to truly have accurate data for the long-term effects of yoga in the Western Hemisphere. Many feel anxious at the thought of Eastern science as well, so this is also an important point to consider.
- do you offer different variations or child-pose "breaks" for students in the classes you had taught? I know you mentioned asking students if they had any injuries that may hinder them in their practice (as every yoga instructor should do) but as you also stated, many who attend may feel self-conscious and choose not to disclose. Did you keep this fact in mind and offer props for different variations of your poses, or offer students the option to not participate in certain poses at all? I try to make sure and inform students that they have this option as well as incorporating props into my practice as well.
- while I agree that there is a lacking of education of anatomy in yoga teacher training, I do think there should be a sense of duty in each instructor to continue their yoga education daily, whether it be through physical practice or researching information. If you did not have the passion for yoga and knew the amount of education it required, why did you continue despite feeling your knowledge was lacking? Had you been a practitioner of yoga before taking on the role of yoga teacher training or jump in without previous knowledge?
The goal of yoga should be to achieve Brahman (Enlightenment) through practicing the eight branches of yoga simultaneously while staying present in our day to day lives. It seems your experience with the asana (postures) was not intertwined with the Yamas and Niyamas causing it to suffer. Thank you for giving your experience on your yoga journey and giving some insight to the parts of yoga that are not often discussed.
I totally agree with everything you said. My first red flag watching this video was him saying he was "not passionate" about it like some people. I personally choose to practice and to teach because I'm so passionate and I think it can help others. I agree with him about the lack of anatomy knowledge among many. When I went to Yoga training I knew way more than most of the students there, but I also have a personal training cert as well as some prior education in nutrition which gave way to anatomy and physiology classes.
@@pulse3554 I read and gather my knowledge from many books; the Bhagavad Gita, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Tao te Ching to name a few.
@@pulse3554 I must be using the incorrect yogic term for enlightenment then, as I practice yoga outside of a religion-specific context. Yoga was practiced long before the rise of Hinduism, so I suppose there is a different term more appropriate for the way I intended to use it. If you have any reading materials you would suggest I would love to take a look at them.
@@pulse3554 the same can be said for Buddhism or Jainism. If there is an acknowledgment and respect to the culture in which it was created and used and a continuous search of knowledge in that practice I dont find that to be appropriation. People in the world are hurting for something more than prescribed and recreational drugs to find what we commonly like to call “God” in this life. So many feel hopeless and that life has no meaning. How wonderful it is to share the art of yoga with those individuals-Hindu or not-to give them some relief in their hurt and pain, to give them a community welcoming them with open arms and to learn how they can feel good in their skin again. I will continue to do my studies on the history and culture of yoga, but i will not assume that sharing the gift of mindfulness, community, and respect for others and self is in any way harmful to the world. Who wouldn’t want to share this beautiful gift with others?
I love these talks!
Thank! Really glad to know that! More will come 🙂
i like that he gives zero fucks about what the new age yoga community thinks of him when he speaks facts and logic
Thanks for sharing your story. I am working on a podcast called "Stop Stretching" and one of the episodes is titled, "How Yoga Teachers Should Teach Yoga." I might slide in a quote from you. Great story, and these need to be talked about more openly.
Stop stretching???? Yin can be considered stretching, it’s yoga! It’s your perspective. Telling people to “stop” = not good 😢
Great info. I teach a stretch and strength class in South Africa and i have had lots of members with injuries from yoga. I totally agree that some instructors need more knowledge about anatomy and how not to force members into postures/asanas. Each person's physical history needs to be evaluated and accomodated. Stay safe 🇿🇦🙏🏻💪🏻
How did you study it? Whats the name of the course?
@@yhh850 hi i did workshops in South Africa and self taught
@@kimdhotman9199 Im interested in streching in general not necessarily yoga so I thought of becoming an instructor. Are there specific courses for being a stretch and strength instructor?
You will have to check in your area
@@kimdhotman9199 ok thank you
I recommend the book: How to Not Practice Yoga, if you were ever disillusioned by the yoga world😱
Yoga.... I did enjoy it mostly. And yes my lower back went slowly from 8-9 days of pain out of 10 to 0,5-1 out of 10 and much more bareble. I liked the physical parts and even the relaxation and focus bits. Meditation up too a point. Our instructor was very much invested in injury prevention etc. But then some folks go way of to the esotheric side..... Not for me at all.
“ Know Thyself , Know the Other； a hundred battles yield 💯 victories “ .... fr 🇸🇬
Just ignoring all the important stuff for a moment: holy hell, that camera just won't stop focus searching! I'm guessing Panasonic?
Yep, that’s really annoying. He should uss manual focus next time, it’s hard to focus on what he is saying when even the camera can’t focus hhahaha
Lovely that you are being so honest on a public platform. Just a guide - your first intention to start yoga was just to make money means it wasn't coming naturally and yoga is beyond our monkey mind. So you can never understand yoga unless it comes naturally. Other thing , asanas burn fat as when you keep the hold for longer time you experience heat , a rise in temperature which indeed kills toxin and burn your fat . May you experience the real bliss of yoga through your experiences not your books . God bless you.
Yoga teacher trainings across the board are notorious for not only skimming lightly over anatomy, which is ironic since almost all yoga classes are 99% Asana, and the anatomy lessons in yoga teacher trainings are usually presented as one-size-fits-all, and do not account for the almost infinite individual variety of human bodies. Just look around, and it's obvious that no one actually looks like the "model human" presented in anatomy books. We are all very differently shaped, & sized, and this of course affects which asanas are easy or difficult, and like you said, which asanas are perhaps not even beneficial for us. Most teachers are not trained to recognize this and and instead taught that we all just need to practice more and "work harder" or be "more dedicated" and that whole "do your practice and all is coming" nonsense will somehow magically make us all slim, glowing and able to sit in lotus posture. I appreciate you speaking up about this. Thank you.
Why didn't you do a course in anatomy, science, endocrinology, biology or something. What stopped you from pursuing further education in yoga?
I actually miss doing yoga I think it was overall a good experience for me the physical practice of it. I don't think the "spiritual" aspect of it always made sense though. Some people are naturally more flexible than others from what I've read and so I don't think any person should be made to do things that don't feel right for their bodies. What really turned me off was the mass-marketing of yoga clothing and such. At one point yoga was being used in a commercial to sell kitty litter.
Human are designed to move but not to the point it's getting uncomfortable. There's more to life, and life should be balance. 🌼
Hallo. Great to know you. First thing I noticed is "yoga teacher". To be honest the title should be asana and breathing instructor not yoga teacher. People don't understand the difference between both. Losing weight is not just about cardio. It's can happen through any form of exercises definitely asanas are one of them. It's not about burning calories it's about initiating body's mechanism to use fat reserves. A steady state of breathing and required amount of tension in muscles while holding asanas will help alot. We can activate the adipose tissues in the body as they are connected with the nerves to central nervous system. Cardio will be the last thing weightlifting can help alot. Even a relaxation in savasan and allowing the parasympathetic state to get activate will reduce the chronic stress and body will be ready for the repair mechanism. Cardio will actually increase stress and the person will eventually fail. You should change that advice in your video which is still dangerous. The danger is not the system is the person who is using it actually. Speaking from experience. Millions of people entitle themselves as Asana practitioners and yoga teachers without being able to practice them alone with deep connection on various aspects their inner architecture. They practice in the group and teach for the group vanish in the group. Yoga cannot be practiced like this for long. To understand these practices you should know the periods in which this tools are invented and the purposes behind. If these basic things are taken care one can help others in bring a little relaxation to the fellow human beings to understand themselves better. Just basic observation of ourselves deeply. Even touching a plant observing how much pressure is good for it and what will break it can help someone to guide other. It requires a depth in mental state and a keen observation. At the end of the day you should take responsibility for what you chose not blame on others I was a not doing critical thinking back then all that stuff will not help. Even now you are giving a bad advice with all the critical thinking. Have you really started observing what you are saying?
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There are standard physical trainer certifications. I wonder how Yoga would be different if the yoga teachers were all NASM or ISSA certified.
That's a great question and something I keep asking myself too. I have a feeling that the yoga world would be quite shaken if high level, universally approved standards would be applied
Being a yoga instructor myself I was so surprised, if not disappointed or even shocked about that weird approach to yoga that you experienced. One of the most essential things that I teach my students is that they always always should listen to their own body (feeling). I do not consider yoga postures as a contest, as something you have to achieve, no matter what. Discipline or stamina might be good but to put pressure on yourself and force your body into a posture which does not feel good, is certainly harmful.
During my teacher training - which was 16 years ago - I realized that you have to develop a good amount of intuition what is appropriate for your participants and what is not. Never follow a rigid pattern. In some of my classes there were students in their 70s or even 80s - and asanas have to be adjusted to this age group, of course. Science is not that important to me, but to be in touch with my participants and to feel what they need.
This channel is gold! I’m glad I found it.
The name is spot on cause you’re using critical thinking im everything and that’s awesome!
i can relate to most of the talk and the fact that most of the ppl don’t think critically makes me feel kinda lonely in this world since I don’t share the same view as them.
Yoga is not fitness and it has nothing to do with burning fat and feeling knee pain ... and it is definitely your responsibility to decide what is correct to teach and how. I believe that like everything there is always room for improvement. If you didn't feel ready to teach, why did you do it? Yoga is based on respect and truth, it seems that you have not respected yourself, forcing yourself to do something you did not believe in, or did not feel ready to do. For me the mistake was yours not of the system ..... It is also your responsibility to research if the TTC is done by a competent teacher or not. I am happy that you have finally found your way to your truth and stopped teaching, but personally I think that discriminating against yoga entirely for your personal experience is a little excessive ... however I agree with you that most of the schools around are of very low quality and that "yoga industry" has NOTHING to do with yoga. Have a good time.
Am struggling to leave yoga.. Because i live and earn through yoga.. But am am always have a doubt to teach and am not feeling free to teach.. I want to come out from that..!!! I want to leave yoga completely.. Its been more than 10 years!!!
Sometimes you dont need to have All the knowledge to be a good teacher or instructor. I remember when studiyng my degree that the worst teachers were the ones that had the most knowledge. As long as you keep yourself safe and do t teach things that you are not sure about..i think its ok. Most of the times people just need a good teacher that makes a good time, that they connect with, and they enjoy the discipline that you teach. As long as you are honest with and teach just what you know...I think its good!
Great points Daniel. It's true that experts of a narrow field may sometimes be very 'narrow minded'. And that honesty and the acknowledgements of limitations makes a huge difference. I still think with practices such as yoga, where someone can get directly injured it's important to be as knowledgeable and careful as possible. But I guess if the person is really mindful of that, maybe he doesn't necessarily have to know everything... :)
No surprise really.
@@Rokasleo they dont care if someone gonna break a bone or something, as long as they live for now, get their monthly fee quotas in, and have some yoga insurance on the side
@@mauricematla1215 yeah, I thought I was spiritually aware and awake, studying the new age deception agenda for a while...got conned at yoga studio purporting to practice authentic yoga...pffft
the worst teacher are those with a "guru attitude" yet lack the knowledge and wisdom behind yoga and spiritual practices including lacking fitness knowledge... it does not help you act and talk the part but beneath that facade you are really dumb af when it comes to the subject matter
I have quit my teacher yoga Training 200h in India, because I didn’t trust my teachers. They were young, unexpected and teaching program was not fulfilled (170 actual hours). I am a responsible person and I don’t want to hurt my students. I want to have a great knowledge about anatomy and limitations and how to modify asanas to not to hurt anyone. I know many people, who got injured during yoga practice.
I have quit my 500h TTC in India too for some of the same reasons. The Guru was experienced but not the teachers ( they had their TTC the year prior ) so def not enough experience to teach other future possible teachers. Plus, it didn't feel safe at times. I made it to the 200hrs part and left. I've been followed by 3 other students.
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yoga depends on body type too..basically three types of body type people...depending on body type they should focus on poses and timing,,,etc.
I simply feel bad after yoga, emotionally physically, just a very unpleasant experience, tried several studios and gave up.
How many channels do you have now? Can you put the link(s) to the other channel(s) here?
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Thanks for asking Danny! At the moment it's just two: "Martial Arts Journey" and "Critical Thinkers". Before my second channel was "The Journey", but I decided to give it a much more clear direction and renamed it into "Critical Thinkers". If you are interested I share more details what I did with "The Journey" in this video: ua-cam.com/video/tw8iz2W5KNY/v-deo.html
@@Rokasleo, I thought this was Martial Arts Journey, but renamed! What was the old name here?
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@@dannyarnold4201 Martial Arts Journey is alive and happy 😁 This channel used to be "The Journey" and now it's "Critical Thinkers" :)
Becoming @@Rokasleo is indeed a part of the Journey too, I should imagine!
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I had to smile to myself when I first looked at my notifications. You see, I also am subscribed to The Critical Drinker's channel as well! The English dude who rips on bad movies and TV shows & stuff like that! He's a very different channel, of course! Lolz!
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@@dannyarnold4201 Indeed! I agree that this is very much a continuation of the journey!
Haha, I didn't realize my channel's name will be similar to The Critical Drinker's 😂 Sounds like a great channel. I'll check it out
Dear Mr Rokas you must understand the difference between circus and Yog.Yog begins from self,through self,to self. Hope you can understand after knowing Yog and the important part is,Yog is not for business.
Bro u didn't mentioned about your food habits bro while doing yoga u can clearly notice that your amount of consumtion of food will be reduced and it happens naturally while you doing yoga . which will gradually increase ur flexibility bro and in India there is many peoples who know the things but due to lack of English they are failed to deliver the thing which u expecting
Great video. Yoga is absolutely one of the least effective ways to get flexible, be spiritual or relax. Most yoga instructors have little to no understanding of what the body actually needs to be healthy or stress free or fit. I've been an exercise therapist for 23 years and when I started doing yoga about 3 years into my career (for my own health goals) I realized how cultish and elitist and just physically wrong it is. I left studio practice shortly after starting and just practiced online with various well known yogis and that was o.k. but only because I knew exactly how to modify every single sequence and every pose because of my functional training background. Most yoga instructors have zero clue how to modify anything for their students. After doing a ton of research more recently I also learned that the yoga brought here around the 60s is really just a form of European calisthenics that hardly resembles the yoga that originated in India. This is why I also do not teach yoga but I do incorporate the most useful poses into bodyweight workouts that help tons of people get fit, healthy and relieve stress. Nobody in America teaches actual yoga that is a fact!
I actually wanna become an instructor and i am in my 40s :) i just love ashtanga.
Ex yoga teacher did not know what lung capacity is or how it can be developed... during a pranayama module, dissing cardio and fitness exercises that improves lung capacity...how the hell you suppose to develop lung capacity for proper pranayama and meditation breathing without a proper fitness regime outside of yoga?!
The physical part of yoga emerged only in the 20th century. King of Aundh's The 10 Point Way to Health introduced the exercise Surya Namaskar. Surya Namskar before that was only a religious ritual where people prostrate to the east in prayer. It was not seen even as yoga then. The guru of Paramahansa Yogananda used the practice of 18th century Hatha yogis who used to do aerobics to entertain travelers to create nearly 200 asanas( Hatha yogis had only 20-50 asanas) to entertain Oreintalists who came to India seeking "Eastern Wisdom". He and his disciple made a lot of money out of it. It is what they call Yoga Capitalism. Yoga as a meditation is a good distraction and helps to calm your mind but the rest of it is purely pseudoscience. You could get into serious injuries practicing it.
I am leaning to quit after 30 years due to low pay, travel prep time and clean up and at times needy students
You just don't teach it but do you still practice it?
fat loss is not just about cardio and calories in/out; there is also a huge hormonal component; you can have identical twins engaging in the same exercise and eating identical diets but if the stress hormones and the rest of the hormonal profile is off -one twin may struggle with extra weight. yoga acts on the meridians and the hormonal system to balance hormones. I thik this is where the claim for weight loss might be coming from
I am sorry for you didnt had good mentors. You had 10 years to learn the science that you are talking about and practice it and also teach it. But you took the negative part that others do. You can lead by example you know that. Btw, i can burn fat only by meditation. I think you didn`t took the spiritual journey also, you took notes and words in your mind only.
A Yoga teacher first is a student, for himself, and only after he feels he can teach what he knows and pass it forward he/she will do that.
You started for money, to have a job that you like maybe and so on, like your martial arts.
( and did the whole thing ) This words say much about you.
Even Sadhguru didn`t do the whole thing yet. :)
Bless you.
There's waaay too much hype around yoga. Hardly anyone, since the "community" is filled with hysterical groupies, makes a point that it can result in..negative structural side effects. Don't get me wrong, yoga can do a lot of good but personally I prefer another approach, like qigong. Especially the more static practices like da jin fa and zhan zhuang. Whereas yoga ( the relative modern practices like hatha and asjtanga) tends to force from outside to the within, qigong and zhan zhuang do the opposite and much more naturally. Same result though except.....less to zero risk on injurie or misalignment. As an example, if you understand the workings of a simple yet profound exercise like ba duan jin, you'll get overall better results without any risk of overdoing the physical structure. Especially the yoga groupies don't seem to understand that practices like asjtanga are quite modern, put together somewhere around 1930-ish. In terms of proven reliability and safety they're nowhere near other practices that stood the times since looong before. In terms of Indian yoga, vinyasa practices like the four tibetans and dand baitak are much older and proven healthy. And things like pole standing, well...I'm not saying Lucy did it but...Me personally, when asked what I do to keep fit, I just answer: I walk and stand. Not a soul who knows what I mean. Doesn't matter. As long as I know what's good for me... And trust me, I know. I broke my back in three places in a horror crash three years ago. I'm not supposed to be able to walk at all and yet.. So, I really do know how certain yoga asanas can put a lot of strain and do more damage than good.
When did the channel change its name? Very interesting
I actually made the change around a month ago. There's a video where I tell in detail what happened if you are up for watching it :) ua-cam.com/video/tw8iz2W5KNY/v-deo.html
I understand what you are saying, but it has nothing to do with YOGA. It only has to do with ignorant Teachers of any physycal training: Yoga, fitness,pilates whatever... There are plenty of Ha-Tha teachers with good anatomi knowlage. Anyways YOGA is not about fitness and Fat reduction. it never was. Asanas have only ONE purpuse - To Give you ability to Mediatate with straight spine for many hours. All of that modern Ha-tha stuff is just modern fitness. And modern fitnes SHOULD be Scieentific and correct. I study Yoga and anatomy for years and it blows my mind of how ignorant most Yoga and fitness teachers are...
Appreciate your comment. Can I get some book recommendations and maybe links to online classes that you appreciate. There doesn't seem to much humility in this, which would seem a pre-requisite for any practice. Thank you for your kind attention
He explained why he quit instructing in the first minute, he isn’t passionate for it, everything else is his evidence he found of his lack of enthusiasm for it(tapas) and reason to quit. Knowledge is infinite and lifelong, even science is changes. Being a teacher to me is less about what you know and more about what lights you up.
I don't do yoga, but if I would, I would like my teacher to have your mindset and rationale, precautions and honesty as well. I cannot say about yoga teachers in general but in martial arts, especially in those with strong tradition I've met instructors who don't question anything and for me it resembles too much blind faith than I'm comfortable with.
The new channel feels more "grown up" or mature if that makes any sense. Good job!
Thank you Tomi! I really appreciate the feedback.
I am doing my best to make this channel into a proper, quality UA-cam channel 😊 There's still a lot more work to do, but it's getting there! 🙏
I am doing yoga teacher training with a different yoga teacher now, for the same reasons. Previous yoga teacher didn't know anything about fitness, or how to take her time to teach people to know the right things on how to teach... I am signing up for a more strenous program, after the yoga teacher I was previously at terminated the course, because I didnt fall for her bullshit.
and to add it seems that some yoga studios are more interested in cultivating little cults, groupies or high school drama politics than actually being interested in yoga...I did not expect this level of unprofessional behaviour from "yogis"... I signed up for an 18 month course, terminated abruptly after I came closer to understand the underbelly of the new age yoga world...and simply could not see a child barely out of her teens, as a guru or knowledgeable in the field of yoga... mainly new age yoga is there for the glitz, glam, money and high school drama politics. If they wanted to go back to high school so bad, they should have gone back to high school instead. Wtf
From last minutes of the video I can tell that you connected with people, and that’s what they loved.
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It is impossible to really teach yoga in big class - too many different people.
I like Iyengar detail oriented approach with explanation of bodies differences, but constant references to guruji is tiresome.
Ashtanga is much more straightforward, fun and prone to injuries. :)
And of course yoga is not just asanas. ;)
This clip quality is terrible.
I think it's possible to teach yoga to a big class (many people do), but I agree with you that then the level of connection would significantly decrees. Also - quality too.
About the quality 😄 Will work on it 😉
Don’t see yoga as a spiritual discipline but as a kind of physiotherapy. There are schools like Iyengar who strictly follow physical preconditions of the scholar and are extremely attentive to the preconditions of human body in general. So critical thinking includes to go into detail and to differentiate and not generalise. So I would agree with you to warn about yoga styles or gurus whose arguments are not based on physics or are let’s say obscure.
Recently had the worse yoga teacher ...she would be very lazy going through all the yoga teacher training modules, spent half an hour or so during lectures. 2 days max on anatomy and let you watch videos, sometimes she did not even know on which page we were on or what module we are actually busy with. What people won't do for money hey, rush through things like a race horse, only for that monthly fee ... some truly care more about money then people's health. They will even go so far to say they see zero improvement in your postures when they never gave a damn how you did any posture, as long as they got paid.
What you’re not understanding is the different so called “stretch positions” actually something.
Yoga is being marketed as harmless but it is very harmful to your spirit.
Side effects include depression, suicide and torment from devils.
Please use the word asanas not yoga. So much difference exist inbetween. Physiotherapy is not yoga. Yoga needs a conscious attention of a person a Physiotherapy is just asking someone to help you come out of your condition.
Hay, quick thought that's sort of unrelated but... Have you ever stopped to wonder WHY Atheists DON'T WORSHIP SPACE AS A CREATION GOD? I mean, think about that one logicly for a moment. When I was 16 years old, I LOVED SCIENCE CLASS and I even read my science book for FUN. Biology and geology were FASCINATING to me and I read a TONE of sections on both subjects. Biology stated that to be classified as a living being you needed brain cells or cells period. If anything lacked cells it was considered "nonliving." Rocks for example didn't have cells. They were made of atoms and molecules only, so they weren't alive.
Space too wasn't seen as having cells because it was made of a mysterious non living substance called "Antimatter". As I learned in Astronomy. Atoms were believed to function like "microscopic computers" that ran on a set code unless altered by some outside force, like wind or animals. These "computers" NEVER CHANGED THEIR PROGRAMMING ON THEIR OWN. This was why rocks stayed still and never changed shape unless an outside force moved or cracked them. Like a person picking up the rock and carrying it someplace else.
All of this made sense to me and sounded highly scientific. But then I found "The Big Bang Theory" and "Evolution" and they DID NOT MATCH UP WITH THE REST OF THAT BOOK AT ALL. One sounded like "mythology" and the other like "magic". Evolution COMPLETELY IGNORING The BIOLOGICAL ELEMENTS of INNER BREADING. Making it look like lizards could have LIVE BIRTHS with mammals, biased on the OBSCURE IDEAS that everything was "related". But that's a tangent for another day.
Getting back on topic, simply put, The Big Bang either claimed that "The universe created itself because it had to, or it was a giant computer program that was programed to create life." Meaning in that first definition it was THINKING LIKE A LIVING BEING. BUT! Anti matter DIDN'T CONTAIN CELLS or BRAIN CELLS to allow space to THINK. So my FIRST QUESTION was "How can a non living things think unless its SPIRITUAL?
The definition of a creation god is commonly something like this. "A being who created the universe and life, by choice, instruction of other gods, or by accident that people worship." Like Ra from Egypt who created the Earth and mankind according to some ancient Egyptians. And while I know no one is worshiping SPACE for "The Big Bang" the REST of that stuff DOSE APPLY HEAR. "The Universe created life." "Creation gods create life." So even if space WAS ALIVE, then wouldn't it count as a CREATION GOD? That's scientifically ridiculous!
And don't even get me started on the other "Big Bang" idea that says space was programed like a COMPUTER to make life. That goes against the stuff we know about how NONE LIVENING THINGS CAN'T PROGRAM THEMSELVES. Computers need a HUMAN TO BUILD AND PROGRAM THEM to funchion. WE chose how the computers function biased on what WE program into them.
We can also change the programming of atoms and molecules by means of atom splitting, chemistry and other methods I forgot how their done. But again WE HUMANS have to make those atoms CHANGE because they cant change their own programming on their own.
AI's even require US to build them FIRST before they can funchion. So my second question is "If space is a huge computer WHO PROGRAMED IT?" And going back to that "Creation god" definition, wouldn't the programer of space COUNT AS A CREATION GOD TOO?
Frankly from my understanding THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GODLESS WORLD. Science CAN'T EXPLAIN EVERYTHING in a FULLY SCIENTIFIC MANNER or this "theory" wouldn't point to "A CREATION GOD OF SOME SORT". So if SCIENTISTS BEST THEORY LEADS TO A SPIRITUAL BEING WHO MADE US ALL, then why think SCIENCE is ALL theirs is in our world? This doesn't seem logical to me. But that leads to the question of WHAT GOD CREATED US? Because some god had to with THAT in mind!
In tensed situation yoga doesn't work and it won't work, what a waste of time !
You sound like you were limited by your teachers, yoga is a school of thought-a philosophy, you are talking about asanas.
Asanas and pranayama shall be done slowly, and under expert guidance only. It takes years and it is upto your body, prexisting conditions etc. Yoga benefits are numerous sorry to hear about your bad experience, you should read further about the science of yoga.
If something was going wrong you were doing things wrong.
these people exggerate first by joing any courses and without proper guidance.... then they reduce things to their own bad behaviour and selling it as if this is the reality behind things and everyone shall avoid it.. promoted by some christian channels 😂😂😂
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I NEVER CARED FOR YOGA, BUT I AM FORWARDING THIS TO SOME OF MY FRIENDS. THEY ARE BRAIN WASHED WITH YOGA. I AM IN MY 70+ YEARS, NO ISSUES WITH HEALTH. I WAS NEVER AND NEVER WILL BE BRAIN WASHED. THANK YOU AGAIN. I HOPE IT GOES INTO THE BRAINS OF SOME PEOPLE.
The sideways camera doesnt add value only diserupts
Cool, thanks for the feedback! This is the second time I hear this so I'm leaning to listen to it and not use it anymore :) What do you think would work better? Would one camera be enough?
@@Rokasleo Face shots with occasional inserts of clips from your life or stock clips to illustrate your message is the best approach IMO. And please fix the focus hunting on the face shots. It is even more distracting than the side shots. If you are not ready to upgrade the camera, simply stop down the aperture, which should help the camera to stay in focus. Wide open aperture dramatically reduces the “in focus” distance (sometimes to just a few millimetres), so every time you move your head the camera has to re-focus. This effect only increases at closer distances, like you have on the front shots. Stop down the aperture and you will fix focus hunting. The drawback Is that you will lose the “bokeh” (background blur). Experiment with different aperture settings to achieve some blur, if that’s what you want, and to reduce focus hunting to a minimum.
Thanks VoidedTea! That's really great feedback 🙏 I'll make sure to fix this mistake from now on and will see if I can invest into a new camera too
@@Rokasleo No problem. One other thing you can do to avoid focus hunting is to switch from auto to manual focus and pre-focus the camera to where you want the focus to be. Test the results before you record the actual vlog to make sure you like how it looks (particularly that you are not out of focus for whatever reason). It might be challenging to pre-focus if you are alone, you need to place something where your face will be and focus on that object. Then you need to remember not to make big moves back and forth, but I don’t thing you do during actual recording, so shouldn’t be a problem. Usually from that distance you should have about 20-30 cm of “travel” where everything remains relatively in focus.
@@VoidedTea Cool, will work on that! I'm also considering to switch my filming location and start recording at home. Much less noisy and I have a good condenser mic on my table too. I decided I should start being more respectful to my video quality :)
Wait, i thought you used to be an Aikido instructor?? 🤔
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The yoga you were talking about is all related to physical and also your experience of learning 10yrs ago was more seem to had been focused only on physical aspect... this also looked like fitness trainer injured lower back instead of strengthening it...
I have a good instructor and I detest Yoga!
So the problem is not Yoga it’s how it is tought! I started yoga when I was 45 now I am 52 and not injured! I guess I had the chance to be tought by good and knowledgeable instructors. I definetely don’t listen to UA-cam and whatever anyone puts on and for 2 years now I am practicing Iyengar and started listening to my body and observe it. The problem is that people are not devoted to it this is why they get injured. We should not blame yoga because this way we should blame every type of other practices
What does yoga do that simply hiking or high intensity interval training doesn’t do other than make pseudoscience believes think they are attaining some level of spirituality which is as silly as believing in a God?
Not devoted? Have you seen the body of Bikram Yogi or Yogi Bhajan (Kundalini charlatan)? They look like the couldn’t do a damn push up.
I am a yoga instructor and certified personal trainer. I also read books on self help and psychology as a hobby.. While the claim about targeted fat loss is absolutely a myth I must say some things that may seem psudo scientific have from anacdoldel personal experiance proven to be absolutly true. I have had otherworldly experiances thanks to yoga that go beyond feeling well. If you take concepts such as bhakti(chanting and yoga of devotion) and karma (yoga of action) as well as chakras more seriously you can observe them first hand. In science this is known as Ras or reticular activating system. If you do not observe that the chakra is activated it will not happen. To see that a chakra is activated a big focus is on mindfulness and awareness is necessary so we can observe such things happening. Once I got deep into yoga I could perceive things differently (third eye) and became filled to the brim with joy. I have all these benifits as well.
you may quite not have learned the right yoga.. I think that many people think that by going to India and get a diploma ( a piece of paper) will make them able to teach yoga... Yoga is I think a very complete and efficient practice BUT .. competent teachers are very rare and I know a bit on the subject. I'm not convinced by most of the videos I see on UA-cam about Yoga. But i's a delicate topic as many people try to make a living out of it... and they are sincere. They have good will. It's in their honor. but what is offered to them in terms of content is very very poor. No offense. One day i'll start giving key, eye opening yoga practice explanations to some sincere, good willed people around the world
Calling hinduism and buddhism fake and devil exposes missionary and rotten mindset of pastor dont forgot they are oldest religion and christianity is a 3 year old Child in front of them research proves that yoga is good for individual help them to be strong mentally as well as physically you are individualy decide do not dictated by anyone or sheep mentality please dont vomit poison about yoga
Yoga as become a business nowadays
I remember my dad saying how people were eager to teach yoga for free just because they wanted people to enjoy and learn the benefits it has to offer
Nowadays yoga or any form of excersise as become a business stunt and just to get fame and money
Hope we get back to the old yoga times and I hope people stop making it a business(I am not suggesting to teach yoga for free but to teach yoga with a good mindset to help people and there problems)
I believe the 30% of the movements come from gymnastics actually could be more. When the british took over india the Indias took gymnastics moves from the west and put into yoga. So when yoga people do crane stance what they actually should be doing is frog stance. If you want to get better at yoga learn gymnastics.
What a joke! Yoga is centuries old. Britain was in dark age then.
@@aniketsatpute2389 “Yoga Body” by Mark Singleton goes in depth on this topic
Sweet now teach me yoga. 😅
I left yoga for spiritual reasons (yoga is really a spiritual practice that comes from Hinduism). But when it comes to the physical asana practice, in my teacher training course the anatomy part was really poor and rushed… Also, I remember getting injured at an introductory ashtanga yoga class I took once coz the teacher forced me into a pose that I wasn’t even close to making, then I wasn’t able to clasp my hands behind my back for a few weeks coz of pain…
Western yoga is money making set of asanas with some pseudo religious slogans taken out of context from the real Yoga where asanas are only tiny part of it. Yoga first of all is about spirituality : opening mind into Brahman (God) /Ultimate reality. Asanas are only tiny aspects of it. The ultimate goal of Yoga is moksha(enlightenment) There is no difference between mind and body and both are this same like everything else.
YOGA IS TOP 10 JOBS CREATION INDUSTRY IN USA ALONE, 10THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS GOT EMPLOYED IN US SCHOOL AS YOGA TEACHER , OVER 50K YOGA INSTRUCTOR AROUND USA ALONE DOES THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER WITH YOGA . SHAME ON IF YOURE HATING 10000 YEARS OLD TRADITIONS
All you say, is about your own experience, that your own responsibility what has happens to you, so don't généralise all the yoga fields, if you start teaching that was your responsibility towards yourself is not the false of yoga, dont blame other for your misunderstood of yoga, yoga and Chinese martial art is two different art, mixed up Man yoga will keep on with you or without you, stay in martial Art and Dance Mister know better6u than everyone. Yoga will keep on in without you.Mister teaching after a 200hrs at 19years old ha ha ha.
Yogis do not drink coffee
LOL to see how absurd you are, just assume that Baptism is an underwater exercise! Real yoga has nothing to do with anything you are talking about.
If you want to have a thought provoking discussion I would advise not to start by saying: "to see how absurd you are". Now you just vented and we both gained nothing from it.
@@Rokasleo Since you are "obviously" blind to your ongoing insult to Yoga, are you able to critically think? If you can handle it, more than happy to teach you about Yoga; we can do this here and/or by e-mail classyoga@aol.com First define "critical thinking."
Dude you had some bad teachers. You bring up some good points. But this yoga bashing makes you sound like you never didn’t learn anything. Your teaching martial arts is teaching yoga. You had bad teachers.
So much cursing.