Today, in yoga class, the teacher, who owns the studio, was amazingly insightful in handling an uncomfortable situation. In recent weeks I’ve heard some undercurrent about some people not being pleased with a certain instructor and I’m sure they let the teacher/owner know about it.
During class she told us how she took that particular instructor’s class last night. She was laughing about how he drags out the dialogue and has a way of holding them a little longer in the poses. Then she spoke about how good it was to take classes from a variety of instructors. She said you don’t have to like them all, but you do come away with different things from each one. She told us she had a person ask if she could tell whose going to be teaching the classes, so she could not come when a certain instructor was teaching. She then shared something she learned from one of her teachers during her teacher training. Her teacher told them that if you are unhappy or angry with someone, the reason could be because you’re really seeing yourself in them, and lots of times it’s something about yourself that you don’t want to face. This small piece of insight kind of hit all of us and gave us something new to ponder.
She went on to say that’s part of what coming to yoga is all about – staring into your own eyes in the mirror and really seeing your true self – all the parts. Coincidentally, just before class yesterday, I was talking to a young girl. We discussed how we both came to our first class and never stopped coming. She told me she has friends who couldn’t come back because they weren’t ready to face themselves in the mirror out of fear of what they’d see looking into their own eyes. She said some people just aren’t ready to do that. Wow. Intense.
Both of these incidents gave me much to think about as I moved through the poses these past two days. Seeing your true self behind your own eyes in the mirror being so riveting that some can’t handle it, and being irritated with others because you see something of yourself in their actions or manner, is, what I describe as, cause for pause.
I feel another resolution coming on. Maybe, when the hot iron of anger strikes, or the itch of irritation starts, pause, and just take a quick look to see if we are really looking at our own reflection in a human mirror.
And so, as another day goes by, seems our true selves can be hiding in the strangest places, and …I have written.
Resolution Count:
1. Swallow and digest the explosion
2. Let time and patience prevail
3. Pause, and see if you appear in those
you have issues with
I loved yesterday’s class too. Meg always seems to offer nuggets of wisdom that help the mental side of my life.