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| - The logo on the building was too cute not to be noticed so I got a 2 week pass several months back to see the best class I could possibly attend to on a regular basis. Generally, this place is nice. A little too tight in all the rooms but nice and clean.
The biggest disappointment was the teaching staff. I've been to a number of yoga places like The Yoga Studio at Eglington Ave.E, Extreme Fitness at North York (where we used to live), and community centers in Richmond Hill. But never, and I say never, have I felt so anxious and threatened with the possibility that I will actually tear a muscle or damage a joint on the spot.
They pushed for poses at the wrong skill level, they gave too much and unnecessary detail (e.g. this pose actually helps induce the better calcium retention in your bones... and this you don't have to do but if we do it will benefit your urinary gland...) thus delaying the execution and retention of the pose, and made in-your-face criticisms that everyone can hear when some students including myself made a wrong pose from what was told - a mistake that could have been corrected with a nicer and calmer tone. Many of the people in class were beginners and getting back in shape. What were they expecting.
The impression was that the teachers are all new to the practice, are inexperienced, and pretty caught up with the ego which is one of the primary things that needs to be thrown out the door before a yoga practice. Just one of the important reminders I often heard at the other studios. In my opinion, they simply are not well enough to teach. They're good as practitioners or competitors (yes, yoga is now a sport) but perhaps not as instructors.
One teacher told us of her injuries and tears in many parts of her body from yoga how she was recovering. Was that supposed to impress us like scars from the battle field? No, she did not make warnings and precautions succeeding that story. Another teacher told us to make this pose with the ropes on the wall - to hold on to it from our back as we lean forward towards the floor, hard enough not to damage the shoulder joints then she asked us to deepen more and stepped on one of the students backs to show low it should go. All these she just learned and practiced from her class,where she's a student, that afternoon. WTF!
With that 2 week pass I was hoping to stumble upon a very experienced and nicer teacher but he or she just wasn't there. I never came back. Too bad the location would have been so convenient for me.
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