After attending a Hot Yoga teacher training at YYoga, if you pay to attend a training, you automatically get a spot in the next upcoming audition. Of course, working toward becoming a studio teacher, I attended the audition. It was my first audition I have ever done so I was not heartbroken when I found I did not get the job, there was some great teachers at the audition. However, what was disappointing to find out after (since I continued to work at YYoga as just a GE (Guest Experience), was that some of the other teachers who in my own personal opinion were no stronger of a teacher than myself (and to be honest, I felt were actually perhaps worse), were offered positions to teach while I was not. I don't know how exactly, but I feel like there is definitely some corruption or unfair biases in the decision making process for who to hire as a teacher. I feel this especially because I have been to some really awful and terrible classes at YYOGA (particularly Yin classes), in fact, probably the worst Yoga class I've ever been to (by a long shot), and I am left wondering how these people remain employed at YYoga. There are also a LOT of extremely rude, stuck up and egotistic yoga teachers at YYoga in my own personal opinion, as a GE, I even witnessed a teacher and student get in a fight with each other, which ended in the yoga teacher yelling (in the main entrance to the studio) at the student. Yelling, literally shouting, I had to step in and remind the two that we were in a yoga studio and if they wanted to keep fighting then to take it outside. It is so disappointing to see a yoga studio operate this way and continue to employ yoga teachers that are like this, especially because I know there are so many more great teachers out there looking for jobs (like myself) who work so damn hard !!! This was just my own personal experience though. I got sick of working for what I thought was a crooked and corrupt company and decided to pursue my goal of becoming a yoga teacher else where.
