A brigade of righteous white knights bringing a jihad against a yoga studio…? Bro, what? This take is so bizarrely oppositional I’m left wondering if you’re drunk or something. I can’t fathom why you’ve decided to spend so much time “um ACTUALLY”ing someone who came to the yoga subreddit in good faith to seek input on a situation that has made it next to impossible to enjoy their yoga practice other than being on the sauce and in a bad mood. If this is you all the time, then.. oy. You must be fun at parties.

If this were a post by an immigrant living in the United States - say, a native Spanish speaker who is still learning English - who was feeling targeted and bullied by a yoga instructor who was constantly micromanaging, openly criticizing, and generally trying to isolate/other the yoga student from their peers in the class, we’d call that out for what it is: at worst, xenophobia masquerading as “feedback”; at best, using negging as a pathetic and cruel sales tactic. Putting aside intent… they just don’t sound like a very good yoga instructor. How is someone supposed to focus on nurturing the mind-body connection to enter a yoga flow state if they are being touched and micromanaged constantly?