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| - I've been coming to Yoga Sanctuary for many years now and I've never met a teacher I didn't like. Maybe I pick good classes (Ashtanga I, Hatha I, Hatha Restorative) or maybe I have good luck, but something tells me TYS just happens to hire and train excellent teachers. Among the teachers I've had: Lauren, Myriam, Jenny, Cathy and most recently, Rosie. All have been excellent, supremely patient, kind and encouraging.
The studio itself is gorgeous and I have yet to find a more aesthetically pleasing setting in which to do yoga in Toronto. Located in a 120 year-old office building right at Yonge & College, it's a former ballroom with hardwood floors and 12' ceilings that looks just like the audition room in Flashdance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV6CPhsxmkU). It was famously used as a painting studio by the Group Of Seven in the 1920s. How's that for Canadian cred??
The lone studio is huge and can probably accommodate about 40 students (a guess), and classes fill up quickly. My favourite thing about this studio is the schedule - you know how some studios have unreasonable class times? 6am "early bird" (yeah right), 12pm "not-a-chance-in-hell-you'll-get-a-spot-among-the-rat-racers" and then 6pm "after-work-rush"? Not here. In addition to those popular times, they offer classes every day at 10am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm and my favourite: 8:50pm.
At 8:50pm, no matter the time of year, it's dark and lovely. I can't tell you what a joy it is to do a class as your last activity of the night and then going to bed straight after (or during, whatever). The Sunday, Monday and Tuesday 8:50pm classes are very popular and at the end, while in Savasana, you'll be hard-pressed not to drift to sleep as the instructors come around with blankets, tuck you in and coo you to sleep. You may not want to get up at the end of your class.
What would elevate this to a 5 star review for me would be a better waiting area and change room. The change room is quite small and offers little privacy for those of us that are modest about disrobing in front of people. There are no lockers or showers and the bathroom is shared with the other tenants on the floor. These would be "nice to haves" but the waiting area is a must...if a group is crowded in the hallway waiting for the previous class to let out, it can get quite noisy and distracting, and then when the students rush out of the studio, a huge logjam ensues and you're in everyone's way. A small price to pay for a beautiful studio steeped in both charm and history.
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