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| - I hesitate to review this place, because the people I know who love it here love it with such intense devotion that I almost feel I'm personally betraying them by not giving it 4 or 5 stars. C'est la vie :).
My experience level with yoga is moderate, if that helps. I have tried pretty much all the yoga studios in the East End for several classes each. That said, I am a dabbler in yoga, not a dedicated. multiple-times-per week practitioner, so take my review with that disclaimer in mind.
I have three reasons for my three stars:
1) I think the studio smells like feet, and the long, skinny layout of the room offends my inner sense of feng shui :). Yoga Flow next door, in particular, feels so much cozier and more meditative, and somehow manages to not smell like a Sweat Factory (which all these heated yoga studios definitely are!).
2) As everyone points out, this place is a "good workout." The throngs of fit college girls rocking the pricey Lululemon outfits at Amazing Yoga attest that it is indeed a good workout. I'm pretty pumped when I have sore abs the next day after class. The issue is that I am just not 100% sold on the "power yoga"/ "good-workout " style being the best fit for me personally because they move through the poses lightning-fast, which takes away from the meditative/spiritual aspects of yoga, in my experience. I have the fitness/yoga background to keep up in the classes here, but I can only imagine how confused true beginners must feel (including in the "beginner" classes, which I've taken too and aren't much slower-paced).
3) I have almost never gotten corrections in the classes here, which seems like it could be a byproduct of not sitting in the poses longer. Either that, or I am a yoga prodigy (spoiler alert: I am not a yoga prodigy). You are Working Out, not breathing into a gentle and somewhat restful set of poses, which gives the instructors time to walk around and observe.
If you want a very active, athletic sort of yoga (and are fairly fit and experienced with yoga), Amazing Yoga is probably the best studio in town for your needs. It's my understanding that this studio does a lot of teacher training, so you will also get a consistent experience and similar instruction style here. The other heated/power studios nearby seem to vary in intensity and teaching style much more, which is a plus or a minus, depending on one's perspective.
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