CorePower Yoga

I love this place. Every teacher has been great. This place leaves me feeling fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed Allison’s class as well as Christina’s and Briony’s. Having a recent spinal cord injury, nothing eases my back and hip pain like yoga. I feel the teachers are very attentive to every students needs. They have shown me great alternatives to poses I can’t do because of my injury. From the minute you walk through the door everyone is so kind. Worth every penny.

I went here with my daughter who likes a challenging workout. The people were friendly, inviting and immediately offered a free week trial which was nice. The facilities were clean, modern and warm, figuratively and literally. They rent yoga mats when you forget yours and also have cute merchandise for sale. On account of my daughter who is in ridiculously awesome shape and a budding Division 1 college athlete, I took a sculpting class that was too difficult for me. This was probably my saving grace as I had to take some breaks to recover and therefore did not get injured like she did. The reason I gave this place only one star is because by not doing the routine with the class (only demonstrating the asanas) the instructor had no idea of the muscle fatigue level being experienced, neither did she incorporate appropriate muscle relaxation breaks, nor did she have a rythym of the breathing. High intensity interval training is awesome, however, the key is short spurts of repetitive exercise with quick recovery breaks over a short amount of time. These high intensity exercises were repetitive, with the break consisting of another high intensity repetitive exercise (thus no break) lasting an hour in a very hot room. If you took a drink of your water you were already behind in the next exercise. Although the instructor could tell she was «whipping everyone’s butt» which she admitted to her coworker after the class she had no idea that she was setting people up for injury. High intensity yoga with weights in a hot room creates humongous amounts of sweating, creating a huge loss of electrolytes and fluids which can lead to massive muscle cramping. This is what happened to my daughter. In the middle of the night she had such ridiculous cramping that she nearly went to the ER.
What could have prevented this? High intensity interval training with enough breaks to drink plenty of water and rest muscle groups in between. Had the instructor done her whole routine herself she would have been more reasonable in her expectations. She would have also a better handle on guiding the breathwork which is important in any exercise regimen especially yoga. Lastly she would’ve educated the class on replenishing their lost electrolytes. Everyone was soaked by the end of the class.
Could my daughter have done something different? At 17 she doesn’t perceive any limitations to her abilities and just powered through the class unknowing of any risks. I can’t really fault her. This is why people pay $ 129/​month to do yoga with an instructor. It is to be safely guided. The dilemma here is that the instructor also needs to walk around and make sure students are correctly doing the poses. This class was so high intensity there wasn’t much time for that. The classes need to be somewhat standardized and tested so that all yoga instructors can do a complete class themselves before they go improvising a new routine. My daughter had taken the same class 2 days earlier with a different instructor. She said it was difficult but nothing like this. Most likely she lost enough electrolytes in the first class to be already in a deficit.