Ami H
October 23, 2017 04:07
am saddened to give this place such a low rating, however I feel it is justified. When I first started taking aerial yoga classes one year ago, they were amazing, and I would have given Yoga on High 5 stars. In the past few months, they have rapidly gone downhill.
There is one instructor in particular who makes going to classes here intolerable. She is inappropriately loud and chatty and often delays the class. She attends most of the classes as a student as well as instructs her own, so there is really no way to avoid her. In the last class I took, she delayed the class by ten minutes by chatting and walking around with her cell phone to show pictures. She also kept making jokes about the forward fold and skyward dog positions as "aerial twerking". It was very inappropriate, and she just would not stop. The instructor was laughing along and encouraging her.
The actual instruction of the classes has been simplified to the point of being watered down as well. The level one class used to include a move called the angel flip which has since been removed. Even holding a plank with your feet supported in the hammock which used to be held for about 20 seconds has been completely removed. It is basically the same simple moves every week.
The room itself is a hard cement floor. There are circular mats, but they are not very soft, and I find my fingers often slip off the outer edges onto the floor as I try to get a deeper stretch. This is very painful and uncomfortable.
The last class I took was a level two class. I have taken a few of these before, so I am not unfamiliar with the poses, but not yet proficient either. In this class, my foot got stuck as I tried to slide it up the hammock and cut very painfully into my ankle. I had to call for the instructor as she did not notice, and she delayed helping me until she helped everyone else. When she did get to me and confirmed I had set up correctly, she simply shrugged and said it might be because of low arches. I have very high arches and pointed this out. She simply said she would look into it. She is the only level two instructor, so there is no alternative.
I love doing aerial yoga and stuck it out as long as I could at Yoga on High. I hoped that by taking the level two class, I might be able to progress, but I am done. Every class I have taken for the past few months has been a frustrating experience, and I simply cannot recommend it to anyone.