Yoga Teacher Pet Peeves (Part 2) with Byron de Marsé

0:00 All right, listen up everyone, Paul Byron and myself have been working so hard on putting together a platform dedicated specifically to yoga teachers. And the good news is it's almost ready for you soon. This platform is going to be publicly released but we want to actually make a special offer to those who have been dedicated to following us since the beginning. So that's a lot of you listeners right now. We want to make a special offer for you. And if you are interested in

0:28 being one of the founding members, Members of this going pro platform, then you're going to have an opportunity to do. So. All you need to do is just go into any of the description of any episode and you'll be able to sign up to the waitlist for this going pro platform.

0:42 So that you can take advantage of this offer will hope to see you there. Okay. Now we're back part 2. Yes, sir of pet, peeves. You know, what? If you didn't watch the first episode, go back one and listen to those ones. And then we're just going to build off that.

0:56 Welcome to the going pro. Yoga podcast, nugget series. My name is Michael Henry, and I'm Byron de Marseille and these short 15 minute episodes. We're going to be answering some of the most common questions in the yoga industry so that you can walk away with the answers in a short period of time.

1:12 That's right. Michael with each topic, that we choose will be discussing it from two different perspectives. Teacher. And the student, I'll be approaching these questions as a physiotherapist or physical therapist with over 10 years experience, treating some the most common and complex injuries.

1:26 And my guidance will be from the perspective of having taught 7000 classes, roughly 10,000 hours over 10 years. Welcome to our podcast. So, here we go. We're we at next. So next is closed energy and that is such a. I almost feel bad for saying that closed energy. Yeah, because what I mean is, Oh, like them close, like they're not open.

1:50 So I'm constricted if you will, and it's totally why they're in yoga, right? So it's acceptable, but in a comical way, I'm going to bring up the the aspect of when I show up to a yoga class and let's say it's a nice early morning class and I've had the best start to my day.

2:07 I've gotten my meditation in my yoga practice, whatever. I have planned for that morning. I'm feeling on a high. I'm talking to you, thinking about the world is made. Just, this is a all about love. And here, I show up to class.

2:21 And now the energy in the room is just like Jesus, but completely quiet and quiets. Okay, but closed where you just? Like no one's connecting to anything. All right, some people, I don't, I kind of like it when people get in there and they're like, at their eyes closed and they're in their own energy and they're kind of practicing.

2:41 And then I kind of like it when people are mingling not loud and obnoxious lie, but I like that too. and if someone's just sitting kind of waiting, I don't mind that either, but if somebody's like on their phones and or they're just like They just kind of have a dry colder, you know, way about them.

3:02 That makes it challenging for me to start the class. Sometimes sometimes sometimes I overcome it really well in the beginning and I feel super just resilient and other times it's like I absorb it and I'm like, okay, maybe I'm gonna have to bring my myself down a little bit.

3:20 It was thing. Focus more on the sequence today. Is there like a desire to like try to get them to open? Open, or is it for sure? Yeah. Okay. I mean that's the whole reason. I like to teach yoga in general. So rising to the occasion from. It happens, no matter what, and it's important to note that each person has a different there, a different system and I just mentioned this on the last podcast part 1. But they're, they're different system allows for so many so much of openness anyway, so you

3:52 could have had just a class full of people with a very low capacity in this It to even be open. So I get it and I'm just pointing out like for my from my energetic standpoint of how I circulate around the world, and my own openness and close this. Like it's sensitive right in those moment. Right, right.

4:16 Yeah. Feeling into the energy that closed energy. Yeah, I can feel that. I mean, I can get that when you walk into a room anywhere just like people in general, but let alone you being the facilitator, the leader. And then you're literally watching the rooms. Then it's hard not to notice in probably absorbed for someone like, yeah.

4:32 Yeah. Yeah. This is why. I believe that some of the most famous yoga teachers and some of the best ones out there. They have a social, they said stay lack. Some of them, lack the awareness to even really pick up on that right. That'll get bothered by it.

4:52 Yeah, like Bikram doesn't give a shit about that. Yeah, you know and he's not somebody that I would recommend to never heard of Bikram, that's not my teacher. But you know, Bryan kest Legend, he lacks that no doubt, Baron Baptiste. I've heard many stories.

5:09 So many of these people are just, they feel one-on-one, awkward is shit. 100 on one, just rock star rock it out of the park, right? So if you're more of a normal person, there is a you might have an advantage if Whew, if you're a sociopath anyways, oh, should I give this next one?

5:38 So we go on, let's keep going. Let's get going. All right, so when I'm cueing one person and they don't hear it. For example. Michael is in Warrior one right now. You should see him. His form is terrible, his back foots, not turned in enough. His feet are not heal to heal alignment. His hips are tight.

6:01 So he even needs to go, like, hip with alignment and I'm standing over him. Cueing him. I'm cueing turn your back, heel down. Michael. Turn your right heel down. Maybe, I don't know his name. Let's just pretend, I don't know what that is. More realistic, right?

6:17 Yeah, right. Turn your back heel down. I'm looking at him. Turn your back heel down. Bend your right knee, turn your back heel down and this person is not looking at me, listening to me or anything. They're trying to get follow the class, but they're looking at everything except me. They're literally looking at every student in the room. Trying to figure out.

6:35 Well, there's so much to look at. I mean, do I pick that foot? Because that puts like that, and this one's like this and I'm maybe they're not even looking at the foot, but they're trying, but they're not listening. And finally, they'll get it because you'll say it loud enough or you'll finally just Why is this 20 shoot?

6:53 The teachers couple double takes like? Oh shit. He's talking to me like, oh my God. I'm getting talk to you right now. I better. What does he want? This is a kind of love that experience. To, to be honest, even though it's a pet peeve. It's kind of a, it's kind of exciting because you get to get to try it, you know, tries to try using your tools out as a yoga teacher.

7:14 How can I get this person's attention, right? And then you got to get creative with Acumen and I gotta say it a different way, or maybe not at all. Maybe it doesn't matter what you say. That is listening. That's what I'm to the point is, is I could talk about, you know, I could literally talk about what I ate for eight last night. They were in, do they would not know, just turned out but you know what, this this is in was funny as we think this is right. Now, it's funny as we are.

7:38 Let's rewind back to 2004, 3, whatever it was. And here I go walking into my first yoga class and I remember well, I remember looking around that room so much. I didn't know what was going on that teacher could have done.

7:52 Same thing to me. I wouldn't have had a clue. I was so disconnected from being able from all the stimulation that was happening. So there's such a lot of people in the room. Now that you say that I feel like that's the same for me. And I think one of my first classes was Paul actually, okay, and I remember like, oh, this is what yoga is and I was there with some friends because they brought me. Yeah, but like, I don't remember shit. I just remember feeling

8:13 afterwards. Like yeah, I feel good. I can run faster. Now like your hips are more open. Like that's all I thought about, right? I don't do it to the brand new person. If it's their first First time in my class. I try not to write but if it's someone I see more regularly I'd do it.

8:28 Yeah. Okay. Moving on. Yeah, let's keep going. This is the last one. I've written down Urban. I'm sure we can think of more. When they complement, the sounds funny, when they compliment my music, so there's a pad to you and someone commenting music. It's more of just depends.

8:49 Depends if I worked really hard on a playlist and I played it. Yes, that's that's great. I'm a yoga teacher. I'm not a DJ. So I like to be complimented about things related to yoga more often. Now, that being said, A girl in class yesterday, reposted my playlist and then pick and like videos of her dancing to a song.

9:13 She loved that. I played in a flow. She's like, Bayern, yoga plays the best music around. You got to come to his class to flow and I like that a lot because it was like an advertisement, that's applicable to real world, attracting people to my classes and I get a lot of people sharing my stories, sharing stories.

9:36 Of my thanking me or and I love that too. I love that too. But I don't think it's as helpful for some reason. Like, I feel like the actual playlist thing or like a specific, you know, a specific compliment is more helpful to actually Market yourself.

9:56 So love it when it's after, you know, when it's paired with like a, thank you for class. Love it, when it's like, thank you for that sequence is really creative or that. Sequence. So like just after cut your so basic. What I'm hearing is during class. You don't want compliments.

10:12 No. No, I mean after, as in like after after like social media after that's fine. Gotcha, but if it's like, after class like oh my gosh, what a great playlist, right? And that's their way of thanking me. Yeah. I'm less I prefer you didn't come – you didn't come here for music. Yeah, the next all you like in sequential about the yoga sequential order.

10:36 The next Is thank you for class. I love your music. And then the next one is what a? I love the calm Vibes you brought to class today. Right? Can I have that song you played in the flow? Right? Or I love the way you talk to our inner child, you know, this is like the sequential order of compliments that I might receive that.

11:00 I prefer to get. Right? So you don't put someone was coming up and being like sweet playlist. What can you share that with me? Yeah. Yeah, you're like no. Well, it's guys because this happened recently, when I had this deep philosophical theme for class and I thought it was so roomy. You just like Rumi, sadhguru mixed with little, you know, with all the Epic teachers brought in a quote, you know, I don't read quotes very much and this girl, she's just, she's right there.

11:26 Just work for the playlist. I like ice, best playlists ever. Can I, can I like still that playlist and play it. I love it. I'm just sitting there thinking like, yeah, sure you can. But did you take the class to? Yeah, so it's kind of funny, but that's one of my little pet peeves. The last one, that's the last one I wrote down. I mean if if we brainstorm I'm sure we can come up with some more help me.

11:53 We don't have to, we're coming up pretty good on our part to here. We can talk a little bit about the student because we didn't even do that a student. Yeah, what would be a pet peeve from a student's perspective? Yeah, let's do that. Seeing a teacher.

12:06 So this might be helpful for people who teach yoga, never get feedback and then be a different podcast or the same. Now, let's go pet, peeves. So me is this, I mean, I can only speak to This little bit. Sorry. I can only speak to the teacher thing a little bit because I haven't nearly taught as much as you not even close.

12:22 So, at least from my perspective, I can share a little bit about the things that kind of bother me or piss me off pet. Peeve. What are we gonna call it from a student's perspective? I can't help it. But that is really however, the accursed good. I don't have that many.

12:36 I can think of all kinds without writing down and just to preface even though I should have done this before we started the first podcast let alone. This one was that I'm actually trying to To do a thing. Now, with my partner will be, don't complain a lot and this is the complete opposite of what's going on. Yeah.

12:52 Well, I don't know if you guys can tell, but I'm the one with all the pet peeves, here might say a lot about me. Michael doesn't have anything to complain about. So, you know, but we did say that pet peeves come from experience and you have more experience with the yoga teaching site. Sure.

13:03 So there you go. Make sure. Okay. So let's see. Pet peeve as a student going into a yoga class. What are things that the teacher does that just drives me crazy or bother me? Say maybe there's soft pet peeves. But either way, I feel like we should cover a few. Mhm.

13:19 Because it'll be helpful, especially for the audience. Yeah. I want to start by saying that even though I have pet peeves here. I take every yoga teachers class without without caring who it is. I mean, sure, I'm, I gravitate towards certain ones, but I like taking classes from people that I might have a lot of pet peeves with, for the reason that I like to observe these things within me and then kind of see how they shift and use them to my advantage.

13:46 Age. When I teach nice, do your yoga while you're doing yoga? Exactly, bro, I like it. Okay, cool. So, the first one I wrote is when someone talks too much, or the teacher talks too much says, too much is constantly filling in the space of time with words.

14:04 I just find it really hard to relax to enjoy to follow. There's just a lot of things that happen for me. I sometimes I just tune out possibly even do my own thing and then probably not come back to that class. Absolutely. It's a really good one and I'm thinking it's hard because this step out of the teacher mode right now because I'm like, I'm definitely guilty of that sometimes and then other times I don't have anything to say, so yeah, but I would agree that not that you said this but I would

14:33 say that if someone if a teacher does that they fill the gaps in one class. They probably do it most classes, right? I would say that most teachers are probably falling. into the quieter class or the the noisier class, and I believe, that's also my pet peeve but layered with Layered with like what is what's actually do?

15:02 They filling it with? What are they feeling the space with? Not just words but is this an inspirational quote person like a? I call it an active space holder as opposed to like a passive bass space holder where there's a lot of just presence where you don't need to say a lot of things but just things that are going to hit you hard and less words.

15:28 That's a passive way. The Active Space holders. They talk talk, talk talk talk, but it could be great. Stuff like santosha talking about this limb of yoga and contentment and moving to this post to that, and it's all about the transitions of life. And also did, you know, Beyonce said this one time and blah, blah, blah.

15:45 And there's something about that experience. That'll get you some energy, and like, kind of inspire you, but I'm with you, I want. If I could pick my tailored experience, any silence. Yeah. Yeah. Alright, that about sums it up for this episode on part, two of our Pet Peeves in yoga.

16:04 We're going to continue this conversation next week for the final episode on all of the pet peeves. And we're going to talk a little bit more about the students and our pet peeves, us students. So tune in next week. Take care. All right, listen up, everyone, Paul Byron and myself have been working so hard on putting together a platform dedicated specifically to yoga teachers and the good news is it's almost ready for you soon.

16:29 This platform is going to be publicly released, but we want to actually make a special offer. To those who have been dedicated to following us since the beginning. So that's a lot of you listeners right now. We want to make a special offer for you. And if you are interested in being one of the founding members of this going pro platform, then you're going to have an opportunity to do.

16:49 So, all you need to do is just go into any of the description of any episode and you'll be able to sign up to the waitlist for this going pro platform. So that you can take advantage of this offer will hope to see you there.