The egotistical need of the yoga teacher
The egotistical need of the yoga teacher
Speaking clearly, the need to be the center of attention, to be seen by others, is one of the most serious social diseases and involves everyone. This need is obviously caused by dramatic insecurity. The result is that it often seems to be in the midst of a population of screaming children who call and need constant attention from adults. Only they are not children and adults, in a metaphorical sense, have vanished.
However, this illness of the Yoga teacher also affects the quality of the class. The teachers should be "facilitators", at the center there is practice and not them. To be at the center, they often feel the need to talk beyond what is necessary and, especially today, it seems that teaching a "normal" class is almost a sin. Everyone wants to do the "special" class by overloading it with unnecessary "quantities" and taking away space for movement and practice itself. The infamous smoke with a miserable roast.
Dear Yoga teacher, if you really want to do something special today, you just need to teach a simple class because it is the simplicity itself that has become extraordinary. If that class doesn't show you as the "star" at the center of the matter, but in the role of a simple assistant/facilitator/instructor that you actually are, the class will be further lightened by your intrusive and egoic presence.
m.m.