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Businiess name:
Bikram's Yoga College Of India
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Review by:
citysearch c.
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Review content:
**It should be noted for yoga newbies that Bikram classes are run the same way globally (yes, globally), have intense instruction, and are vastly different from all other hatha yoga classes**
I took a class with Carol Stocks, the owner of Bikram Yoga St Louis, at the Clayton Rd. location not very long ago, and I will never return to her studio.
I recently moved to St. Louis from California where I have been practicing yoga for 10 years (Bikram included) in both San Francisco (the US's ""Mecca of yoga"") and in Los Angeles, at the actual Bikram Yoga headquarters. I have practiced with Bikram Choudhury himself a dozen times, so I know what a class should be and how it is to be properly conducted as per the Bikram Studio Guidelines...
Well... this was my first (and last) class at this studio, and I was DISGUSTED with the way the owner treated customers and ran our yoga class.
She actually made a a young woman cry when the woman could not complete an exercise. Instead of asking the girl if there was a problem, Carol made a passive-aggressive rude remark which was audible to myself and those around me... and we were on the OPPOSITE side of the room. Carol then actually chastised this same woman like a child after the class was over as the young woman was leaving the studio, saying that the woman was rude to her when it was clear to several people in my class (myself included) that the young woman was just standing up for herself when Carol was yelling at her in the middle of the exercises.
Honestly, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, so I thought maybe they knew each other and had some personal issues. I asked the young woman when she left the studio if classes were normally like that and she told me she had no idea because she was a grad student who had just started practicing yoga at Bikram Yoga St. Louis that month and had never had a class with the instructor or even met her before!!!
All of this put together outraged me as a fellow yoga enthusiast and a human being; thus I felt compelled to write this review of my experience.
I have never in my life seen such disrespect in a yoga environment from an instructor, let alone the OWNER OF A YOGA STUDIO!
Yoga practice comes from a place of LOVE. It is about finding one's balance and center while getting a great workout, and there was no way a single person in that studio could find peace or even concentrate on the practice after that psychotic outburst by the instructor. This behavior has NO PLACE in the yoga community, Bikram or otherwise.
There seem to be no other Bikram studios in St. Louis (besides that 2 that this company has)....
so do yourself a favor and FIND SOMEWHERE ELSE in St. Louis to do a hot yoga class because this place is run by a holier than thou dictator who has no clue what it means to be a yogi, how to run a business, or how to treat her own customers!
PROS: you can practice Bikram Yoga here
CONS: the owner treats customers/practitioners like crap
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