Watch Your Language Yoga Teachers! 😉

Written by Barbara

Just for fun . . . but with a touch of seriousness too 😉, check out my least favorite words to hear in a yoga class!

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I like to think of myself as a peaceful yogi, and as a yoga teacher I also have become more aware of the language I do and do not want to hear or use during a class I take or teach, respectively. Perhaps it is just me, and this language, ah these words, are okay for other yogis? So it be! Yet, when I hear the following words used during a yoga class, well particularly one that I am taking, since I won’t use them as a teacher, I cringe and want to skip out of the class. The words you wonder:

• Delicious:  a yoga pose is not delicious. Let me tell you what is . . . dark chocolate mouse, a coconut milk latte, a home cooked meal - well you get the idea.

• Delish:  Eeek, no compute . . . my mind does not process that my parivrtta trikonasana (revolved triangle pose) is delish - just no, no no no no no.

• Yummy:  What’s yummy?. A downward facing dog, a supine pose, my twist, the way I stretch may hands overhead? WTF - I say no more.

• Sip: I do not sip air in. I sip a glass of wine, which is probably the only thing I sip.  “When you get to the top of the inhale, sip some more air in”. Sipping air, what the heck is that supposed to mean?. BREATHE, that’s what we do in yoga. Inhale and exhale . . . breathe, breathe, breathe.. Oh yeah!

• Scrumptious: when hearing this used in class, the hair on the back of my neck ‘stands up’ and a borderline twitch begins in my right eye! This 11-lettered word is even worse than delicious and very close to how I feel about yummy and delish. Scrumptious to me is the smell of homemade freshly baked bread just leaving the oven. Not my ‘half lord of the fishes’ pose. Seriously folks!

• Yummy delish: okay, this one is just a premonition. Seeing these two words together in the prior sentence made me realize combo words may be coming next! Please no!

Yes, we aim to sit with discomfort during yoga, acknowledge it and let it go. Yes we look to find our inner peace. This is important work we do. But please watch your language yoga teachers! Let’s keep our yoga vocab in the right wheelhouse, the yoga wheelhouse, and not the ‘kitchen’. I rather find my discomfort elsewhere in a yoga class, NOT in hearing that a pose is ‘delicious’ 😳.

All in good fun beautiful yogi’s! All in good fun! Namaste! 😏