Open to It: Corrections, Cover Teachers and Change
There’s a moment in almost every class where an instructor walks over, adjusts your shoulder, repositions your pelvis, or simply says, “try it like this instead.” How positively you respond to that moment could really accelerate how you progress.
Correction Is Not Criticism
It’s easy to hear a correction and feel like you’ve done something wrong. But that’s not what’s happening. A correction is information. Your instructor isn’t pointing out a failure — they’re offering you a faster route to the result you’re already working toward. The clients who improve fastest at EQ are almost always the ones who treat corrections as gifts rather than judgments. They say thank you, they adjust, and they move on without making it a whole emotional event.
If anything, the moment an instructor stops correcting you is perhaps the moment to think… why? Honestly, the real compliment is when your instructor keeps correcting you. It means they can see you’re listening.
Welcoming Your Cover Teacher
Every instructor at EQ has been trained to the same standard, but no two of us teach with identical cues or identical pacing. When your regular teacher is away and someone new steps in, you might notice the class feels different. That’s not a problem to solve — it’s just a different teacher’s voice on a familiar method.
Stepping in to cover a class can be daunting, even for an experienced teacher walking into a room full of regulars. Cover teachers earn the same trust, attention, and effort you’d give your usual instructor, and a smile when they walk in goes a long way.
Showing up open-minded for a cover class is about staying present and adaptable instead of rigid about how things “should” be.
Change…
Teachers move on, cover instructors step in, schedules shift. None of that means something’s gone wrong — it just means the studio is responding to what’s actually needed. A new face teaching your usual slot isn’t a downgrade, it’s just change, and change keeps things working well.
So here’s the short version: take the correction, give the cover teacher a fair shot, and trust that change at the studio is usually a sign of care, not carelessness. The more open you are to all three, the more you’ll get out of every class you take.