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I took the worst yoga class here in my years of practicing yoga -- and I'm not someone easily disappointed. The instructors -- and there were two teaching the class -- were completely insensitive to individuals' experience, and instructed everyone as if they were beginners. There was one point at which one of the instructors was actually hitting students lightly with some sort of rod. One of the worst parts was when they asked which women were ""on their period,"" which is really priviileged information, guys. Usually the protocol is to mention that if it's that time of the month, you do *this* pose, instead of that one. But the pose in question wasn't even an inversion -- they just wanted those mensturating, for some reason, to do the pose on only one side. In any case, a real invasion of privacy. Ironically, the class was a mix of the sort of chanting you'd find among real yogis -- or in Pune, where we're not -- and then extremely annoying and non-meditative barking of orders, even during the final, allegedly restorative ""corpse pose,"" from an egomaniacal instructor who may been practicing yoga half the time I have. The ""cute"" comments and ""performing"" really got old fast; I felt like a captive audience required to worship the instructor, and that's not why I came. The studio advertised this particular class as ""all levels,"" but it was an extremely unchallenging class filled with beginners, advanced beginners, and more mature folks -- I am older too, and not a Gumbi-doll, but have been praciticing for years with excellent, well-respected instructors here, in San Francisco, and in New York -- even if I am a little stiff. I spent the entire 90 minutes increasingly angry at the instructors, and at spending $16 for this treatment, and will not be returning. If you're serious about yoga, avoid this place.
Pros: Large, well equipped studio, good location.
Cons: Invasive, egomaniacal instructor, parking difficult.
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