[Lauren_]

Oooh, Caliana, those are tough questions -- probably worthy of a spinoff thread.

I taught a special-topic Saturday class for another instructor not too long ago and was approached by a student before class who said 'will you please make sure to stretch us out before we get started? I feel tight if I don't stretch and don't want to get hurt." I *think* this particular student comes from a classical dance background. No way was I going to convince her that her lifetime of 'start-with-stretch' training wasn't the best route.

Looking back, I wish I'd said "I like to warm up the body with simple technique-based movements rather than stretching cold muscles. If you feel that your body needs something different, you're more than welcome to use that area over there to give yourself whatever you need before class."

But that's a student. You'd have to have a good mutual-respect relationship going on with your instructor before you could correct her teaching style -- and even then, there's no graceful way to do it in class. You can probably say 'Oh, I'm sorry, it hurts me to do it that way and Hadia suggested I do it this way instead.' That might get you a personal reprieve.

I understand the desire to 'save' all the other students, but I don't see an effective way to do it. Maybe you could pick ONE very worst thing and talk to the instructor quietly after class one day, saying 'what do you think of this info I got from Hadia, I'm not sure how to incorporate this in my teaching" That approach would allow you share the info from Hadia while still treating the instructor as a teacher rather than reducing her to pupil.