Guest guest Posted June 18, 2001 Report Share Posted June 18, 2001 Alan, I guess you mean a certain person with an impressive thumb-technique? <br><br>If a teacher is GOOD, he/she can go tough on me if that means progress for me. But "good" includes a minimum of respect for the student. A good teacher will realise that you are dedicated and challenge you. But he/she will never demand more than you can deliver. Therefore, I would not tolerate it if someone would insult or hit me. This, I would consider as a sign for a bad teacher. <br><br>I do not think that it is a problem if a teacher is talking a lot (e.g. in the case that many beginners are around) as long as it does not mean that I have to wait a minute until he/she has finished before I know what they expect me to do. <br><br>Mysore-style is OK for "advanced beginners". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 On B.K.S.Iyengar's notoriously violent teaching style - consisting of "blows, slaps in the face, kicks, abuses and humiliations" - there is an interesting article by one of his students at <a href=http://iyengar-yoga.freepage.de/abhyasa3/3mitleid.htm target=new>http://iyengar-yoga.freepage.de/abhyasa3/3mitleid.htm</a> . The article is in German only. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 "I hint and nothing happens. I hit and something happens." <br><br>OK, sure, "something happens". I understand what is meant. But anyway, there is a limit to what I allow s.o. to do to me. I have a western-style ego, I can´t help it. A dedicated student does not need to be hit. And if the student is not dedicated, why force him to become "better" by hitting him/her? I do not see a point in this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 Have you ever wondered why they call him "BKS" Iyengar ?<br>BKS = Bite, Kick, Slap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2001 Report Share Posted June 19, 2001 That a stay at the Inyengar-Institute in Pune is nothing for the faint-hearted becomes clear in a second article on the same website, by two German female students on a visit there, <a href=http://iyengar-yoga.freepage.de/abhyasa2/2institut.htm target=new>http://iyengar-yoga.freepage.de/abhyasa2/2institut.htm</a> . Again the talk is about the screams, the blows, the pain; but this time the tone of the article is much more critical. The report ends in a praise of the apparently "more sensible" Western teachers.<br><br>Reading such articles - too bad that nothing similar is available on astanga yoga - it seems to me that the concept of "the gentle yoga voice" (of "gentle yoga" generally) is basically a Western one. I may be wrong, but my impression is that in its country of origin, in India, Yoga is often taught in fashion that is quite different from what we are accustomed to here in the West. No "gentle yoga voice" there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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