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| - I have practiced yoga for 16 years now. I have visited yoga studios all over the country and enjoy yoga tourism. I think I have visited at least 200 different studios over the years.
I have attended roughly 150 classes at the Studio - Madison this year. I only attend the Yoga Flow Classes. I joined for the 6 months for $99 a month.
The good? If you want to do a lot of yoga, you cannot beat this deal. The space is gorgeous and every single person who works there is polite and nice.
The bad? Many of the instructors are still pretty new to yoga, and the classes are generally large (more than 40 people in the evening). Consequently, advanced or experienced folks receive very little assistance. Instead, the instructors are busy stopping newbies from hurting themselves.
There's also a pervasive new-age, faux-buddhist, crappy existentialism that permeates this place. As a Buddhist who just want to exercise, it gets on my nerves. But, hey, this is also a common problem in yoga studios...Yoga instructors 15 years my junior giving me spiritual advice - completely unnecessary. Today they cancelled my class to discuss the "art of Feng Shui with local decluttering queen, Jane Antonovich." Seriously? What does that mean? WTF
I love yoga, but I gotta admit, much of yoga can be pretty douchie.
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