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| - I visited Spirit of Yoga through a fitness Groupon that had 5 classes here (and to a bunch of other places). Right off the bat I thought the parking situation was confusing between the office spaces, the bank and the sweet tomatoes, very few spots were free to take for the Yoga studios.
Spirit of Yoga has some great positives and some not-so-great attributes. On the plus side, their Ashtanga class is very very cool. The teachers are very dedicated, the class is fast-paced but long in duration and they go above and beyond to continuously push your body instead of staying in a comfy-beginner level state. I also love that one of its rooms has an all window side, facing a really beautiful garden/reflecting pond where people meditate, ducks swim around and there is a real feeling of peace. It looks like the perfect place to get your 'zen' on.
Unfortunately its quite hard to get any Zen in you, when all the students (coming out of classes or whatever the hell they are doing) are noisy as hell. You hear them running around, conversing extremely loudly, heating up their food (microwave buuuuzzzzz) and eating. I guess the "shhh" sign outside the individual yoga rooms must mean something else, cause it felt like I was at a high school in the middle of recess. And it was like this every single time, without fail. Either the walls/doors are paper thin or they have built-in microphones outside, but the level of noise was so distracting and so disrespectful that it completely took away from the yoga experience.
Short version: great teachers, cool classes, horrible noise. Take that as you will and best of luck!
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