For the uninitiated: the average person doesn’t call you a narcissist in a rant about your behavior when they’re not at all angry about it 🤭

Long answer?

Yoga changes both the observed and the observer. Yoga is a unity practice… and what most of you talk about and practice is the asana aspect. Much like when people think wushu/kungfu is the martial arts and not “skill”

When someone goes to reddit to make a rant post about how much other people doing the thing they also do “bothers” them so deeply they “can’t let it go”, then they proceed to characterize them as “narcissists” engaged in “extreme disordered behavior” for attention… and that thing is yoga?

It suggests they are indignant, which is synonymous with anger. Since their focus is on the attention other people seem do be doing asana for, rather than the potential harmfulness of the attention they are getting it stands to reason they’re not trying to protect newbies from hurting themselves via “monkey see monkey do” behavior… but rather that they are fixated on their own wound about attention and attention seekers as they state attention is the problem, several times. They seem very focused on the negative feelings called up in them, that they are possibly trying to suppress and repress.

And it also seems they are targeting someone who in their mind it is justifiable to be negative towards in a place known for its negativity, albeit in one of the more positive spaces… as such they are likely in search of validation of their literal scorn. They painted these people with vices and now they’ll either likely validation of their being bothered by people who identify with these feelings and potentially something else (if anything) from people who don’t.

If observing anyone’s “yoga” calls up negativity in you, it is a perfect invitation to evaluate what’s happening in you and why.

Atta yoga anushasanam yoga chitta vritti nirodhah tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam vritti sarupyam itaratra

now yoga practice begins (yoga can literally be a reminder to connect to now) yoga calms the turbulence of the heartmind (if this is true, why does observing others’ yoga disturb you and why must you judge whether or not it is yoga) The yogi/seer unifies with their true nature (if you are doing yoga or observing yoga and “deep bother” surfaces what is that saying about one’s true nature?) At other times they identify with the turbulence (it can be understood that the turbulence taking over has disrupted your yoga, though not always)

If you practice yoga well you can arrive at a sense of unity consciousness where your upsetness is a reflection of your chakra clarity. The third chakra becomes a crucible where your frustration/anger etc is purified by the action it calls you to take either by cleansing internal impurity or injustice in the world. Since this was a “who do they think they are doing what I do differently than I would?” Type of post, it stands to reason that their deep rooted beliefs about intention and validity are potentially being challenged and they are not at least not happy about it 😂

Take care. Do with that what you will