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| - While I generally ignore reviews on sites that allow anyone to post biased and often grammatically incorrect opinions capable of damaging business, I felt after reading the post from BB, it's high time I capitalize on my posting capabilities.
It is important to note that my opinion is exceptionally biased in that I have been practicing at the Bikram Yoga Institute for 2 years, and not basing my review on one 5:30am class. No promises, though, on the correct grammar. Oddly enough, this particular class BB is referring to is taught by Mandy, one of the most passionate and dedicated Bikram instructors. She is the first person to make sure every posture is performed safely and correctly to help the student get the most benefits for their current stage in the practice. She is one of the most detail oriented instructors I have experienced, staying so true to the dialogue I find myself learning something new every class I take from her. Sometimes, she'll make sure I learn something new, by calling me out in class if she knows I can go further in the pose. I listen to her because I have complete trust in her abilities as an instructor...and also because has an awesome body and I'll do anything someone thin tells me to do. Regardless, she teaches at other Bikram locations; coincidentally one of the locations, BB also reviewed with a stellar rating...weird. Anyways, let me help out some readers here who may have been jaded reading some experiences from non regulars at this studio.
In addition to doing Bikram everyday (it's true, I'm awesome like that) I also run on a treadmill. Sometimes I run for an hour and feel awesome, and sometimes I walk on the treadmill for an hour convincing myself my ass looks good without all this pointless running. Though, the latter generally ends with a cookie binge and subsequent tearful phone calls to my mother about how I'm a quitter and no one likes me. The point is that I don't write a bad Yelp review about the treadmill claiming that it wasn't motivating or exciting enough. I don't blame my bad workout on the very tool I was using poorly. I eat cookies, cry to my mother about being lazy and then workout harder the next day. It's true...much to the chagrin of my mom.
Now, everyone comes to this studio for a different reason: weight loss, weight gain (ridiculous), stress relief, meditation time, 90 minutes away from screaming bratty children, etc. What you put into the class, is what you will get out of it. That is the truth. Every instructor does read from a "script" (that they spent a baffling 10k and 9 weeks to learn), so that every class is consistent. Meaning that the student get the same instruction at every class, in any studio, in any zip code and still have a great or crappy class depending on how his/her body was feeling that day. Bikram instructors are there to guide you through YOUR practice. The Bikram Yoga Institute focuses wholeheartedly on this, which is what keeps its students returning. Everyday, you will need something different out of your practice and this studio, its amazing instructors, selfless manager and unconditionally loving director will be there to help you find it. They aren't there to berate you or beat you into submission if you aren't doing the poses correctly...unless you're not locking your knee, apparently that is beating-worthy. They guide you through your practice. If you really need someone else to keep you motivated through YOUR workout, go to a boot camp, get a trainer, or, I don't know, try that Zumba nonsense that's all the rage these days. Leave the Bikram Yoga Institute to those of us who want to be there for ourselves...and to burn off the latest cookie binge.
In the words of Bikram, "It's just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward."
In the words of me: Get bent.
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