Full Circle Synergy School of T’ai Chi Ch’uan

They have a nice studio space, and the staff was friendly, but I was very disappointed with the Evidence-​Based T’ai Chi course I started taking and then dropped halfway because I was not learning anything significant. (I had previously taken superior but less expensive courses elsewhere.) There were about a dozen people in the class, and the instructor first of all did almost nothing to build a sense of connection among us, so there was a certain awkward tension to the meetings. He also gave us very little background or theory on what we were learning, and yet it was also often difficult to relax while we were practicing because the teacher kept chattering about things that didn’t need to be explained. Most of the class time was wasted either practicing very simple exercises that could have been done at home for free, or trying to copy complicated movements which weren’t demonstrated clearly. Most of the people in the class did not seem to be picking up the forms confidently at all; this was most apparent when we broke into groups to practice several sessions in, and no one in my group knew the sequence of movements that we were supposed to be doing. When it came time for a refund, my money was very slow to be returned, and even though I only took half the classes (and they stunk), I only got about a third of my money back. Would you believe that the instructor then had the nerve to ask me to take more courses? Full Circle has its fans, but I definitely wasn’t pleased and would recommend going elsewhere. I had really been looking forward to expanding my knowledge of t’ai chi, but this turned out to be an insulting waste of money and time.
UPDATE 3÷28÷12: I finally got the last part of my money back, but it took three phone calls and possibly this review to get it.