Ok so I'm trying to remain calm here...the new teachers have arrived and I had thought that we would meet and discuss things before they took the Mysore program but it seems that is not going to happen. Now I appreciate that they only arrived 2 days ago but it's really important to me and I thought it would be important to them to have an idea of the students and their practices before they came in. I guess they work differently. Ok...but then I spoke to, well let's call him Bob just to be safe...We chit chatted a bit and he asked me where I was from. He was like "Oh, I have friends who own a studio there." I was at a loss for words. These friends of his are hard line ashtangis who won't let you thru the sequence if you can't jump thru!! I had gone to practice at their place as they wanted me to teach for them but because I wasn't jumping thru they didn't feel I had what it took to be a teacher - I've been doing this 6 years and I can teach jump thrus....anyway, that's not the point! The point is that they recently hired a guy with 6 months PRACTICE experience and NO teaching experience just because HE has a "bells and whistles" practice!! And the new teachers are friends with them! Which may mean they are hard line ashtangis too!! Crap...I know I'm probably over reacting here and even if they are I can always chose not to practice with them and go practice with my buddy at the other studio, so I have options. It's just a question of respect, and I feel like I'm not being shown any. I think my ego has just had a severe beating and it's fighting back. I'll let you know how it goes...