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| - I went to Spirit of Yoga for the first time today and I was teetering between a 3 and 4 star. I went with 4 because it's a nice facility, very clean, nice view of a pond (and a strip mall, but I digress...), and the people who worked here were friendly. My class today was free since it was my first class and I was excited to try a wall yoga class (if you haven't heard of wall yoga, and I hadn't, it's yoga using a wall with adjustable straps as your 'prop'). The class was alright.... not exactly what I expected, but ok. The teacher was nice and adjusted us, which I liked, but seemed to be looking up each pose in a book before instructing it... that was a little worry- inducing (since we were hanging off a wall and all...). We used the wall to get a better stretch in each pose, which I liked, but none of it was terribly challenging (it wasn't what I would consider a 'good workout') and it wasn't very 'spiritual' either.... I felt like the yoga was a little lost in this class. Additionally, the straps are very uncomfortable on your (or at least my...) skin... My friend and I both left with red marks/bruises on our wrists from the straps. It was fun to hang upside down, though, and my friend said her back felt a lot better after the class than it had before. I would say my biggest complaint about the class was that it didn't feel like what we were doing would help my general yoga practice (for example, some of the adjustments and poses would not be possible without the wall in the way they were instructed.... I kinda wish that when we were upside down he would have instructed hand placement for if we were to be in a handstand or forearm stand so it would have helped with an off the wall pose... but maybe that's just me) I would like to come back here to try other (non wall) classes and like that they offer free student lead classes several times a week. I'll be back to check that out for sure.
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