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| - I had been practicing hot yoga for a year and a half before moving out here in August. Since then, I've been having some trouble 1. finding time to practice and 2. finding a decent yoga studio to practice at. My friend introduced me to Sumit's Yoga after she saw an ad for it in a magazine offering 2 weeks unlimited free. I had gone a few times to a different yoga studio in Chandler and didn't love it, so I decided to give Sumit's a go.
Well, after my first class, I'm not sure about it. I didn't dislike it, but I also didn't LOVE it. In all honesty, I don't think I'll ever LOVE a place as much as the place I left in Chicago, but I want to at least come out of the studio and be like, I LIKE this place! I came out of Sumit's being like, I'm not sure what just happened. I have to come again...maybe. Let me give you a re-cap.
Upon entering, Sumit the owner was at the front desk chattin' it up with someone. He seemed to know a lot of the people coming in, so that was kind of nice. He had me sign a waiver (as all yoga studios should) but didn't really explain it to me because he was busy chatting. Understandable that being personable is important to the sustenance of the studio, but what if I was someone TOTALLY new to hot yoga and didn't know what I was getting into? I think it's important to take a minute with a newbie to discuss some of those things before going in to make that person feel totally welcome. Granted, he did take the time to point out where the women's locker room was, but I could've figured that out on my own. I may NOT, however, been able to figure out how my body was going to feel the next day or that I should continue to drink plenty of water even after the class (things newbies might not know).
When I entered the studio, I was really surprised the see the floor was actual floor (some type of wood or maybe bamboo). All other yoga places I've been to have had a carpeted floor. Not actual fuzzy carpet, but you know what I mean. I thought it would be uncomfortable during poses that required me to be on my back, but it actually wasn't so bad. Anyway, the first half of the course was led by someone other than Sumit, but the last half was instructed by him, and I have to say, I liked that part the least. It's some sort of power yoga where he pumps up the tunes to a ridiculous volume and makes you plow through the poses really quickly, which I don't think is very safe. We were being put into poses that we didn't go through in the first half of the class, so I thought damage could've been done to some of those unused muscles all of a sudden being used at a very fast pace. I thought stretching some of those muscles out suddenly wasn't very safe, either. The volume was up so loud, too, that I couldn't hear anything Sumit was saying, so at one point, I just stopped. At that point, I'm looking around the room, and I see that a girl was resting on her back with her eyes closed, and Sumit was pouring water on her chest from her water bottle! I was like, What is going ON here?! She didn't seem to mind, though, so I was concerned that this was something he did often. That was what really threw me. Up until that point, I tried to keep an open mind and say that all studios are different, but THAT was a little too different for me. I also didn't like how the ad that my friend gave me advertised yoga with music (which was something the other studio I went to did NOT have that I did not like), but only the loud-blasting music during the second half of the class was it. Still, I liked the first half of the class for the pace, the second half for the music, and I came out sweating like I should, so I'll give this studio another try.
Bonus: You can see who is teaching the different classes online and reserve your spot online prior to going.
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