CorePower Yoga

I’ve done Yoga all over the world and I have to say that I had a great experience there today. I’d say that my level is intermediate to advanced. I took my class with their lovely instructor, Sue. Sue was warm, knowledgeable and put us into a nice hot flow that was fun yet challenging to follow along with. I liked that! I was sweating and getting into my breath and body in the present. Vinyasa is the rhythm of breath between movement and they certainly embodied that in the flow. She read the room very well and was extremely caring towards the students. I had a fantastic experience.
Some people have a very rigid view of what yoga is meant to be– and, to me, that is not yoga. Yoga is fluid and is not one thing. It is certainly more than just asana. I really enjoyed myself and I highly recommend people looking for fun in their yoga and fitness routine through an engaging class atmosphere that is also upbeat– you might want to go and see if it’s for you.

I came here yesterday and had the best experience! The instructor was knowledgable and very quick to help with correcting your poses. I took the core yoga 1 and plan on checking out the other classes. This was a great workout!

Wow! I’m surprised by these reviews. This place rocks! I don’t why people have issues with this place. I am used to corepower from LA! They do have a corporate feel– but I like knowing that the classes are high energy and dynamic. I love their diverse schedule! They are a little less ‘granola’ than other studies but that’s a good thing in Atlanta! Providing diversity to the yoga market here! Keep up the good work!

The location and space are great, and so is the retail section near the front of the studio. However, the actual yoga class was average at best. Yes, it is slightly more «mainstream» in that the teacher plays more indie/​pop songs and speaks in a louder, peppy voice that reminds me of a fitness class or something – it depends on your tastes and preferences as to whether this is a bad thing. I did not hate it but do not prefer this style for yoga. I did like that during the middle we paused and did a bit of core strengthening exercises – they weren’t extremely challenging but it was a good addition all the same.
The class itself was the most repetitive yoga class with the most awkward transitions I’ve taken. It was honestly boring, and I consider myself a beginner, so can’t even imagine what the most experienced students felt. Where I thought the class failed the most was teacher instruction. I think the instructor for my class was new, because she did not seem to know how to correct the students’ posture. She almost seemed to be making rounds and just making random fixes here and there for the sake of making adjustments, and sometimes her adjustments were so awkward that the student almost fell over.
Overall there is nothing horrible or offensive about the studio. But if you are at even an average level of fitness and have taken yoga at all before, you can definitely find more challenging, rewarding, and better studios for your money.

I’m changing my review To go with what the one below says the quality of the yoga and instructors is the worst in Atlanta la fitness or the ymca or any indepent studio is way better the atmosphere is ridiculously corporate the instructors have no respect for the practice of yoga it has been reduced to something you would expect on a vhs workout tape loud annoying music flight attendant style announcements with no reverence or respect at all for the practice I will not have my practice disrespected like this this is not yoga but simply a business appealing g to the lowest on trend
Fitness styles under the guise of yoga I hope they go out of business

I am a long time yoga student in the Atlanta area, so i decided to see what this place was all about. I did not have very high expectations to begin with… i never do with franchise yoga places. CorePower yoga doesn’t seem very yogic. You can immediately feel the lack of connection, that corporate feeling… it just seems so… fake. they are annoyingly pushy with their selling tactics, their teachers are not the greatest in the sense that they don’t seem to be looking out for the safety of the students as much as they are trying to look and sound cool. I took 3 classes there and i will never go back. I actually had to get off my mat and help another student who looked like she was breaking her neck. The teacher «ordered» me to get back on my mat and i «ordered» her to keep a better eye on her students. She did not like me… but that’s OK.
Don’t go here if you’re prone to injury.
When i googled teacher pay, it all made sense. Any yoga teacher who has some self-​worth, and a strong teaching background will not be happy working here. While teachers in local studios have the chance to make a decent income by bringing in more students etc., this place is pretty much telling their teachers that they are not worth anymore unless they SELL-​SELL-​SELL. You basically have to be their doormat to make it up their latter.
This is plastic yoga at it’s finest. If you like pretty rooms, expensive drop in rates and cookie cutter teachers… you might like it here.
If you like real yoga with real people who aren’t trying to sell you anything but an ancient philosophy, friendship, support & a sense of community… you will not like it here.
EDIT:
To the lady who said this place isn’t «granola» — what studios in Atlanta are «granola»? The ones that actually teach real yoga? That’s not «granola»…that’s called YOGA. If you do not like the other aspects of yoga and consider them «granola», then yoga is not for you. You can stick to your exercise that you THINK is yoga… but is not. It’s just an exercise that is using the name «yoga» as a selling point.
If you are not learning how to open your chakras, how to meditate, how to practice pranayama, how to not judge others, how to LOVE others, how to study yoga philosophy… I’m sorry, but that you are doing… is NOT yoga.