Om Shanti: A Yoga Blog

Last week, the teacher who normally teaches my favorite Sunday afternoon 2/3 Vinyasa Flow class was out of town, so the studio brought in a substitute teacher. The sub was well-trained and perfectly qualified to be there, but about fifteen minutes into the class, she said something which kind of riled me. She announced: “If you’re here expecting to get the kind of class that [regularly scheduled teacher] teaches, you’re not going to get it, so get over it.” At first, I was a little annoyed by this, but then I just dealt with it; after all, there was not much I could do at the moment, and, besides, there’s always something to be learned from different teachers. But this got me thinking: What, if any, responsibility does a substitute yoga teacher have in terms of teaching/mimicking the class style of the regular teacher? (more…)