[QUOTE=yogini_spirit;20324]Hi, I feel impatient when doing yoga sometimes. I don’t like it when the instructor talks too much. I especially find it disturbing when they like to count 1…2…3… it’s like I try so hard to concentrate, only to feel that these numbers are making me more nervous, like I have to reach that certain pose by the time he reaches 10.
I also find myself being lazy at times and not following what the teacher is doing, like I tend to give up too easily. At times, I find time passes so quickly with certain teachers, and for some teachers, it takes forever to end that lesson. Whats wrong with me?![/QUOTE]
Impatience, sloth, and torpor, in a fully developed adult mind, are obstacles impeding movement along the path of yoga. These same qualities, expected to be present in the adolescent mind, are dealt with using an ashtanga practice - just as it was taught to Pattabhi Jois and BKS Iyengar as young men in their teens by the late Tirumalai Krishnamacharya. The furtive mind is occupied by constant doing so that it cannot roam to boredom, laze, or impatience.
If you are in your teens and do not carry excess body weight then a frisky practice is an appropriate recourse, presuming you are not ill of health.
There is another concept raised here in your post and that is the concept of balance. This is not an unfamiliar concept in yoga but its often missed, mispracticed, or mistaught. It is no more appropriate to be addicted to change (for the sake of it) than it is to be addicted to remaining stuck. They are both positions at the end rather than the middle of a continuum.
A fecund experience, whether a yoga class or marriage, will likely provide you with plenty of opportunities to look at your self on the deepest of levels. This is not FOR the purpose of change. It is only for the purpose of change relative to your dharma or life’s purpose.
Not all teachers are for all students AND not all students are for all teachers. You will get lessons from those who abuse you (until you learn to value yourself more than they do) and you can get lessons from those who teach effectively using compassion and honesty.
What has to be determined here is whether the counting teacher is moving you forward toward your Self or merely grating across your nerves. The balance in yoga teaches us that both are possible. You may need to stay and process through it or you may need to find a teacher more suitable. This, only you can determine. We cannot.
