Okay, I just wanted to share this with everyone today, because I was trying to find a similar experiences on this forum, Rate your Spiritual Teacher,because my search for good spiritual teachers has been very difficult.
When we first moved here, I signed up, by recommendation, a teacher training yoga program. The place, was on Mario Bravo, it had the smell of India, the look of India mixed with hippie tourist decor, and although I was suspicious already, I signed up for the classes. I paid 400 pesos for the month, and decided, this is a good investment. But the classes were awful, the floors were dirty,never swept, the windows were never opened, and the teacher, who taught the" philosphy" of yoga was so naive and terribly unprepared, it was shocking that she was teaching the class. In fact her students failed the course and were taking classes over and over again. For some reason, they never spoke up. (I now know why) . I spoke to some of the students, saw the frustration in their faces, some bravely, expressing their regret of even spending money and time on such disorganized program, that I immediately decided to request my money back.Surprisingly, they did. A week later , my partner discovered this article.
http://www.perfil.com.ar/contenidos/2011/07/20/noticia_0029.html
They are still in business. The guru to this place was arrested for doing some pretty awful things. Read it and you will see why we need a forum that rates these teachers, so they don't the get this far.
I have had a few experiences here in the yoga, "spiritual" martial arts reiki raw food hippie world, and there are a lot of frauds out there teaching in BA, ripping off a lot of people, foreigners, particularly, who use their power to manipulate their students to bring more people to their awful classes. I am tired of it. Collectively we have to put an end to being ripped off. I had a talk with another teacher about him not showing up for any of the classes, and he was quite arrogant about it, and dismissed my "petty" complaint, no one else was complaining, which is another mystery to me. Since I have quite a few of these experiences, I know that I am not alone.So, I am thinking of making a forum similar to "Rate my Professor", but with yoga, martial arts and spiritual classes, because these people are hurting the practice. I am shocked at how unprofessional some of these teachers are, and how full of themselves they are. So I am proposing as an ongoing thread for us extranjeros, to protect ourselves from bad teachers. What do you guys think? If you have bad teacher post it. We put the teachers name, the place, and rate it. They have to start taking accountability. I know that this could be complicated because in some schools I have gone to, the school itself is crooked because usually the bad teachers are the owners of the school, but there is always a great teacher hiding inside one these spiritual schools and we should praise the hell out of them. Tell me what you think... if you have a better idea, please post it, if you think I am being oversensitive, post it, I want to know your opinion, because it's an issue that has been bothering the hell out of me since I got here.
When we first moved here, I signed up, by recommendation, a teacher training yoga program. The place, was on Mario Bravo, it had the smell of India, the look of India mixed with hippie tourist decor, and although I was suspicious already, I signed up for the classes. I paid 400 pesos for the month, and decided, this is a good investment. But the classes were awful, the floors were dirty,never swept, the windows were never opened, and the teacher, who taught the" philosphy" of yoga was so naive and terribly unprepared, it was shocking that she was teaching the class. In fact her students failed the course and were taking classes over and over again. For some reason, they never spoke up. (I now know why) . I spoke to some of the students, saw the frustration in their faces, some bravely, expressing their regret of even spending money and time on such disorganized program, that I immediately decided to request my money back.Surprisingly, they did. A week later , my partner discovered this article.
http://www.perfil.com.ar/contenidos/2011/07/20/noticia_0029.html
They are still in business. The guru to this place was arrested for doing some pretty awful things. Read it and you will see why we need a forum that rates these teachers, so they don't the get this far.
I have had a few experiences here in the yoga, "spiritual" martial arts reiki raw food hippie world, and there are a lot of frauds out there teaching in BA, ripping off a lot of people, foreigners, particularly, who use their power to manipulate their students to bring more people to their awful classes. I am tired of it. Collectively we have to put an end to being ripped off. I had a talk with another teacher about him not showing up for any of the classes, and he was quite arrogant about it, and dismissed my "petty" complaint, no one else was complaining, which is another mystery to me. Since I have quite a few of these experiences, I know that I am not alone.So, I am thinking of making a forum similar to "Rate my Professor", but with yoga, martial arts and spiritual classes, because these people are hurting the practice. I am shocked at how unprofessional some of these teachers are, and how full of themselves they are. So I am proposing as an ongoing thread for us extranjeros, to protect ourselves from bad teachers. What do you guys think? If you have bad teacher post it. We put the teachers name, the place, and rate it. They have to start taking accountability. I know that this could be complicated because in some schools I have gone to, the school itself is crooked because usually the bad teachers are the owners of the school, but there is always a great teacher hiding inside one these spiritual schools and we should praise the hell out of them. Tell me what you think... if you have a better idea, please post it, if you think I am being oversensitive, post it, I want to know your opinion, because it's an issue that has been bothering the hell out of me since I got here.