Wow, I don't think I'd fully appreciated how universally positive my experience with instructors has been to date. And/or appreciated the ways in which age-dismissal might differ from size-dismissal.
But unless the class was described as being for advanced participants or for people that already have X or Y experience, then the failure of the instructor to provide any kind of guidance about making exercises easier or harder as desired or modifying them due to any physical limitations, or about what kind of pain might signify muscles being used in a new way (good!) vs bad form (bad! but easily correctable) vs any type of medical condition that might make yoga a poor fit (bad! give suggestions of other forms of exercise that might be more appropriate to the individual's particular incompatibility with yoga), is just such an utter failure on the part of the instructor. You know, in addition to the age-dismissal.
Every class I've taken in recent memory has started with a "stop at any point if you have to, join back in as soon as you're able if you can, every exercise can be made easier or harder as desired and I'll show you what the modifications are as we get to each new thing but also as a general rule do this to make things easier and that to make things harder, if you have any wrist/knee/joint issues or any other medical problem that might require different/additional modifications let me know and we'll find something that works for you" preamble. ...I'd kind of assumed that every instructor would start off like that, but I suppose I've been very fortunate.
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But unless the class was described as being for advanced participants or for people that already have X or Y experience, then the failure of the instructor to provide any kind of guidance about making exercises easier or harder as desired or modifying them due to any physical limitations, or about what kind of pain might signify muscles being used in a new way (good!) vs bad form (bad! but easily correctable) vs any type of medical condition that might make yoga a poor fit (bad! give suggestions of other forms of exercise that might be more appropriate to the individual's particular incompatibility with yoga), is just such an utter failure on the part of the instructor. You know, in addition to the age-dismissal.
Every class I've taken in recent memory has started with a "stop at any point if you have to, join back in as soon as you're able if you can, every exercise can be made easier or harder as desired and I'll show you what the modifications are as we get to each new thing but also as a general rule do this to make things easier and that to make things harder, if you have any wrist/knee/joint issues or any other medical problem that might require different/additional modifications let me know and we'll find something that works for you" preamble. ...I'd kind of assumed that every instructor would start off like that, but I suppose I've been very fortunate.