Pure Yoga

this review is a complaint against their yoga teacher, Anjan Kundu, and the teacher’s management.
Anjan was rude and arrogant when he saw I hid my phone under a towl in his class. without understanding my need of tracking my heart rate with the watch/​phone because of medical reasons, he gave me a lecture on their no phones policy and made me explain in front of the whole class.
when I tried to explain further in private after class and tell him I would really appreciate a more considerate and private approach in the future, he was simply unapologetic and told me that a rule was a rule. I totally understood but I did mention my medical issue when I signed up with the studio and certain considerations were set beforehand. he didn’t want to hear anymore of that, and asked me to go take a private class instead, and never show up at any of his classes again. I agreed and Anjan goes, THANK YOU… WTF?!
now I’ll NEVER, EVER go back to any of Anjan’s classes, he really got off on the wrong foot. on top of that, his pushy and sacarstic teaching style is not my cup of tea. I understand helping students to achieve more and all, but who wants to be yelled at when you can’t repeat a down-​dog/​high plank/​up-​dog/​down-​dog/​stand/​jump sequence 30x after a long work day anyway?!
i filed a complaint with the front desk manager, but apparently the teachers have another supervisor. it’s been 3 days and I still haven’t heard back from Anjan’s boss.
now I’m forced to give them 1 star…
take Anjan’s classes at your own risk! you been warned!

My favorite studio!!! This is the cleanest and most modern yoga and fitness studio I’ve ever been to.
The girls’ locker room is just beautiful. Asia Standard Tower studio blows The Centrium and Soundwill Plaza out of the water… I’m sure it has nothing (which I really mean everything) to do with the fact that Pure HQ seems is located within Asia Standard Tower.
It’s always packed here, and I can see why! I enjoy coming to this studio much more than the others. Very happy that it’s super close to my office. :)

Great class variety, and nice facilities. No need to bring your own yoga mat, props, or towels — all of this is provided (and set out prior to class) for you! Bless them.
The ladies locker room is spacious and contains many «vanity» stations for the ladies to blow dry their hair and do their makeup. There is also a wet clothes spinner so you can rinse out your sweaty yoga gear and spin it for a few seconds to dry (to avoid that mildewy smell from developing before you get them into your laundry). Perhaps the most useful feature of the locker room is a smartphone charging station — tiny individual lockers with iPhone 4, ⁵⁄₆ chargers and Android/​Blackberry chargers built in. There are also regular sized lockers, too. But, as with all gyms, a good number of the locker keypads are broken, which can be a bummer during the busy periods.
The smoothie hotline in the locker room is also kinda cool — just pick up the phone in the locker room and call downstairs, and they’ll have your preferred smoothie ready and waiting for you to pick up when you’re done changing out of your yoga gear. In addition to smoothies, they also offer a wide variety of snacks, sandwiches, salads, soup, juices, coffees, and mylks by Nood food.
With the great variety of classes comes a great variety of instructors. I’ve taken 2 classes here so far. The first instructor I was not into at all — she was not very yoga-​esque, and I felt like it really detracted from the experience I could have had there. My second class redeemed Pure for me though. So, I’d say just try out a few instructors, see who you like, and stick with them. You know what they say — different strokes for different folks. The best thing to do is to talk to a sales rep, ask for a week-​long complimentary pass to try out the place, and if you like it, sign up. If you hate it, who cares — you just got one free week of yoga at a pretty posh yoga studio.