A hot yoga instructor in New York City lost her job after a influencer claimed that she was being bullied because she tried to drink water during class.
Roma Abdesselam, 29, settled in a Bode NYC on the Upper East Side on January 26, when she suddenly became thirsty in the 105 -degree Fahrenheit room.
At that time she dropped her pose, leaned forward to pick up her Fiji water bottle and took a sip, reports the New York Times.
But then she claimed that the instructor – only identified as Irena – 'plague me, shouts me for everyone and is like' it's not time to drink water. You drink water if I want you to drink water.
“Is this normal?” She asked her 660,000 followers on Tiktok in a video that she left the studio.
“Of course I would get water,” Abdesselam, who identifies on the platform for sharing videos as a stay in the home.
“Is that news for you that I would get water at an AF *** ING Hot Yoga Class?”
Many who saw the video, who has been viewed more than two million times, agreed that the instructor was out of the line.
Roma Abdesselam, 29, claimed in a tap video that a hot yoga instructor plague her when she tried to drink water during class
“Hydration refusing in every training class is a huge red flag,” said a Tiktok user user.
“That person must have control problems, that is really bizarre behavior,” another claimed, while a third said she has done hot yoga for years “and” not allowing water is not normal. “
But traditionally in Bikram Yoga, which is often mentioned as hot yoga, practitioners are discouraged from drinking water until they reach the eagle attitude – about half an hour.
Those traditionalists say that they discourage drinking early in the course because it disrupts internal heat and lowers the body temperature – which, according to them, results in less flexibility and potential discomfort or nausea, and breaks concentration during the current.
During the class in January, Irena said that she did not 'have' command 'from drinking', but instead asked her to 'please try to remember' until the agreed time.
She also claims that she explained the rule at the start of the class – something that Abdesselam denied.
“I was a bit stunned because, as I said, I followed the class earlier and I never had an instructor who would say to me,” the influencer told The Times.
The incident happened in Bode NYC in the Upper East Side of Manahttan
In the aftermath, Bode NYC co-founder Jen Lobo Plamondon held a video set for all people to go through the company's policy and to emphasize teachers that external reviews are being taken seriously.
At the time, she also announced that the studio and Irena were on their way, according to The Times.
“One -off reviews will not endanger your work,” explains Lobo Plamondon. “But when it is so spirits and we see that other people had a similar experience, it will not be tolerated.”
Then she placed her own video reaction to Tiktok and said that Irena's behavior “does not match the standards of the studio and she does not 'micromanage when or how many water people drink'.
But last month another messenger NYC student, Monica Carbone, 28, said that she had a similar experience.
She said she was in class for about 25 minutes and holding a pose with one leg up and clamped her foot in her hand when she started to feel light in the head and decided to take a sip out of her water bottle.
Bode NYC-MEDE founder Jen Lobo Plamondon placed her own Tiktok video in the aftermath and said that the behavior of Irena 'does not match the standards of the studio and she does not' micromanage when or how much water people 'drink'
The non -genuentified instructor then asked the class to wait until the pose was completed to take a water break.
“It just felt focused on me,” said Carbone. “I was in the front row and whether that was the case or not, it certainly gave me a bit uncomfortable.”
She said that when she got up to leave the room after she started to feel thirsty again, the instructor stopped her and offered to fill her bottle for her.
Carbone refused and instead went to the reception to explain a manager what had happened.
“He said:” Yes, I think she is one of the more traditional teachers. And traditionally you only leave Bikram lessons if you follow one of the three PS: puke, pee or faint, “she said.
