Gold’s Gym Hot Yoga Studio

I’ve been doing Hot Yoga for some time and have been to many different studios and even taken a college course on the study and tradition of yoga. This yoga studio is by far the absolute worst I have ever encountered. Tara, the Hot 26 instructor, sat on the floor playing on her cell phone the entire class. The class was only 60 min instead of the regular 90 min class. She didn’t conduct the class in the proper Bikram format with breathing techniques or doing each posture twice. She was loud and hostile when people were in the wrong position or not understanding technique. A proper yoga instructor walks around during the class, not on their cell phone, and adjusts yogis into the proper position quietly and privately without calling anyone out and making them feel insecure. Yoga is about peace and relaxation and my experience with this instructor was the opposite of that. It was hostile and cruel. I came out of that class frustrated and pissed. I have not returned to that studio nor do I recommend it to others who ask.