The Hatha Yoga Studio

Leave your ego and your $ 100 yoga butt pants at home and come here focused, sincere and ready to deepen your practice.
Judith Hirt is the real deal. The style is Iyengar, so the focus is on perfecting your form and holding the poses for a long time. It’s likely you’ll only do 4 or 5 poses in a session, so you get the opportunity to make tremendous progress.
The classes are super small, 3 – 6 students, and Judith takes time to understand each person’s needs and limitations and tailor the class accordingly.
Judith has helped me so much over the years by teaching me the right movements and poses needed to overcome injuries and chronic pain. She has decades of experience and I trust her methods.
If you are looking for workout or ashtanga-​type yoga, you won’t find it here. Best to go to one of the ubiquitous vinyasa schools to get your sweat on. Come to Judith when you want to go deeper in a small class with a master.

I have been coming to this studio at least once or twice a week. Judith is the regular instructor and she really has helped me advance in my poses. She is able to understand her students’ capabilities and limits. This class is very small that can fit about 4 – 5 people. At one point I had a one on one class with Judith because I was the only one in the class and she only charged me regular price. She is not intense or competitive with her students like most yogis in the city. This studio is great for beginners who really want to experience and understand yoga.

I’m surprised at Kristin’s experience, as mine has been the opposite. I hope she’ll give the studio another chance.

I’ve now been coming here for a year and I continue to feel the same — actually even better — about Judith and the Studio.
If it weren’t for Judith, I don’t think that I would have been able to remain committed to yoga for so long. She’s really made it accessible and enjoyable for me.
BTW, I can now touch my toes. Doesn’t sound like much but after 15 years of not being able to do so, I think it’s pretty cool.

I came here for the first time not knowing what to expect. My boyfriend has never done yoga ever! So this was his first class. We ended up being the only ones attending! I have never had a class where so much attention has been given to me! I am used to funky door and yoga classes at the gym like at 24, equinox and crunch. We did very few poses, but i think it is because she was going very slow with us and taking her time with my boyfriend. I have never seen so much detail and precise instruction from a yoga instructor before. She showed us poses we could do together and use our body weight to help each other get deeper in our poses. My boyfriend was a pure natural at yoga! His triangle pose was able to get so advanced he was at a point some people take years to get to! I will for sure be back and continue to practice at this studio. Only doing about 6 poses and I was so sore the next day!

I’ve been going here for almost a year now, and I feel very comfortable in the studio. Currently, all classes are taught by Judith, an extremely knowledgeable and talented instructor. I enjoy how she can demonstrate advanced positions but not make her students feel intimidated. Her small classes allow for a lot of guidance, and she really cares about her students’ advancement in their practice. I appreciate how she knows almost all her students by first name.

Wow, I’m really surprised by Kristin E’s review — maybe she had a sub instructor? I’ve been coming here regularly for 2 years, and have never had an experience like the one Kristin describes… Maybe give it another chance?
I practice here at least twice a week, and love it. I’ve had classes with all of the instructors, and while they all have different styles, they all genuinely care about the students’ overall well-​being.

Judith is a master whose teaching reflects a profound understanding of yoga.
Everyone looks for something different in yoga; everyone can find what they’re looking for with consistent effort, patience, and a mind that is open to the exploration of myriad things in the practice of the poses.
Regardless of how many (or how few) poses we do, I know that I am doing something incredibly meaningful in the time that I spend at this school. Even if we did one pose the entire class, I know that there are infinite possibilities and infinite opportunities there to explore something exciting and experience something beneficial to my mind, body, and spirit.
I wouldn’t presume to judge what a good yoga school is, nor a bad one. Nor would I presume to judge what is a good yoga practice or a bad one.
What I feel most strongly, however, is that…
To me, this is as true a yoga practice as I could have ever hoped for. This is NOT American post modern yoga. This is yoga. And Judith is a true master of yoga, in practicing it, in teaching it, and sharing it with others.

I went here a while back when I was first trying to make yoga a regular thing. I’d been to a few other studios that were further away from my house, and wanted to find something in the area… and then a friend said she saw this one on Unilocal…
I thought, «Perfect! It’s like five feet from my front door!»
Turns out that it was not so perfect, and essentially was a waste of time and money. The instructor was thorough, which could be perceived as a good thing in certain situations, but not in a class when you only do 3 or 4 poses throughout the whole class cause the teacher wants to tell you the history of the pose and wait until everyone is perfectly in their pose…
and then she talked about levitating while she was in India, and was somewhat secretive about it…
All in all, I have to say that I would go elsewhere to practice yoga. But maybe I just went to the wrong class on the wrong day…

Would Never Go Back!
* Slow slow slow in an hour and a half we did three poses
* No Flow to the Hatha Flow
* Instructor mumbles and is difficult to understand
*Not relaxing, Not a work out, Not Practice
Two Good Notes
* If you must try this place she will take less than 13 $
* The instructor did help me figure out how far apart my legs should be during warrior poses.

The Hatha Yoga Studio is a great, comfortable, focused hatha yoga studio for regular small group (2 – 8 students) work. I have regularly practiced yoga with Judith for more than 7 years. Classes are focused and ever changing, there is always something new to work on. Judith is an incredible instructor