She has been coming to our school once a year to teach master classes.
The first year I was too intimidated to attend (see also, thinking she was insane)
The second year, I sucked it up and took the classes. And - wow! No matter what her motivations are, she is a great teacher. She can take a room packed full of people of varying skill levels and still provide an intense and personal experience. She pays attention and doesn't believe in being false. Also, she had three other advanced teachers moving throughout the classroom to provide individual attention (which (the multiple teachers) was a feature of the classes at my studio when it was new, but now it's fairly rare that the teachers have the time to double up lie that)
The third year I did not go. Not because I was intimidated by her anymore (since it's a professional interaction, instead of having to ask her about her philosophies), but because the classes bring in people from several states away and end up crowded like New York City classes, and I decided that I didn't need that then.
Next time, I'll probably go again.
But it's also that we've had several people from the studio go through the teachers' training and come back not only knowing their shit, but also good teachers. There's a part of the training on avoiding the airline steward voice, and how to enunciate clearly. There're sections in the training on how to teach poses that aren't particularly comfortable for you. And she makes the people learning to be teachers really work on their own bullshit in ways that I don't have to. But they come back really having gotten full value for their time and expense, which I don't know is true of every teacher training program, and makes me believe that the quality of teachers for the style would be reliably high.
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The first year I was too intimidated to attend (see also, thinking she was insane)
The second year, I sucked it up and took the classes. And - wow! No matter what her motivations are, she is a great teacher. She can take a room packed full of people of varying skill levels and still provide an intense and personal experience. She pays attention and doesn't believe in being false. Also, she had three other advanced teachers moving throughout the classroom to provide individual attention (which (the multiple teachers) was a feature of the classes at my studio when it was new, but now it's fairly rare that the teachers have the time to double up lie that)
The third year I did not go. Not because I was intimidated by her anymore (since it's a professional interaction, instead of having to ask her about her philosophies), but because the classes bring in people from several states away and end up crowded like New York City classes, and I decided that I didn't need that then.
Next time, I'll probably go again.
But it's also that we've had several people from the studio go through the teachers' training and come back not only knowing their shit, but also good teachers. There's a part of the training on avoiding the airline steward voice, and how to enunciate clearly. There're sections in the training on how to teach poses that aren't particularly comfortable for you. And she makes the people learning to be teachers really work on their own bullshit in ways that I don't have to. But they come back really having gotten full value for their time and expense, which I don't know is true of every teacher training program, and makes me believe that the quality of teachers for the style would be reliably high.