Critical Alignment – Yoga En Therapie

Stay away from this place unless you speak fluent Dutch. You would think that since the name of the place is in English, they would be at least a little English speaker friendly, but this is not the case.
I went there for a beginner’s lesson a few years ago, and I spoke some Dutch and had a fair amount of yoga experience, so I thought I would do ok if the lesson was given in Dutch. The teacher spoke fluent English to me before and after class, but she completely refused to speak any English during class, even when she was adjusting me, and spoke Dutch too fast for me to understand her. Before the class she started speaking Dutch very fast to me and when I asked her to slow down she got snippy at me and declared «You don’t actually speak any Dutch, do you?»
I was stunned by her rudeness, because she had the ability and opportunity to make herself understandable to me in English during the class without disturbing the rest of the class when she was working with me one-​on-​one to adjust my positions, but she just flat out refused to do that. I expected that a teacher would be more interested in teaching than in some kind of nationalistic zeal to avoid speaking a foreign language. They also use these weird headstand contraptions that have been known to lead to pinched nerves in the shoulders. Why would someone risk that? Since teaching is not the top priority here, I recommend that you stay away.