In my quest to find a new studio I frequented OmYoga last night down on 12th street. Biggest mistake ever!!!It seems as thought yoga is no longer a practice but is now a means to make money.
I went into the studio not expecting much (trying not to be judgemental and overly critical), the first thing I notice is that the reception area is outfitted with tons of t-shirts to sell (all of them with the word "Om" printed on it as though that will bring you peace and inner balance. So I brush it off hoping that the class would be awesome enough to make me ignore that. My shoes go into the massive clost where there is a sign that says "OmYoga is not responsible for the loss of stolen property" good thing to tell me when I'm leaving my flip flops here. Note: if people that frequent the studio were real "yogis" they wouldn't steal other people's stuff!!
On to the social, I mean, changing room. It seems that no one wants to get into the Zen mode because everyone is changing and chatting (loudly) like there are no people around other than themselves. And the chatting continues even as they go into the area where they are going to be practicing yoga. They have no respect for what the practice really is, I am at this poing boiling, ready to walk out the door. So the class begins, with "Jason" who has the idea that just because he eats organic food and does some poses he is a certified instructor. Note to Jason: wake up and go back to yoga teacher school, if at all possible go to India and learn the truth of what yoga is. Jason's class has no natural rhythm, there is no flow, it all seems to forced and fake, everything is backwards, the sequence sucks and all his talking gets in the way of people trying to concentrate on what they are doing and feel there body trying to bend into all shapes. Which leads me to my next point, Jason does not let people even sink in to the pose, it seems he's more intested in volume that content if you get what I mean.
Overall, I will have to say this studio sucks. It's so commercial and "bubble gum". Everyone is so fake. I have to go to it again because I paid for and introductory package of 2 lessons. Good grief!
2 comments:
FloatingHead,
Have you tried Integral Yoga (13th street b't 7th and 8th)? That's where I used to go and I LOVED it. You can buy a monthly pass or blocks of classes at a discount. The classes are really cool, the instructors are awsome, and it's the best place I've tried so far. My sis and bro still go there, so there's also the added, uh, bonus of running into them during a class. ;)
That is actually my next stop. I heard good things about them but it's just that they are on the west side. To the west side I shall go if that's what it takes to get a decent yoga instructor.
Floatinghead
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