CorePower Yoga

This place is spa like and the class kicked my a-​double s. F*ck you chaturanga! I went to the power sculpt yoga which is like a sauna (heated room) combined with Richard Simmons on crack and the meanest drill sergeant you can imagine pushing you with vocal encouragement to go from downward facing dog and lunges and push ups and jumping jacks fast fast fast. It was a packed room and no matter what your level – if you cannot do it just hang on your mat until you can find the energy to do a couple moves. Yep I could only do a little at a time but I still got in a great workout. There are still a few ab muscles screaming at me a few days later underneath all the fat I have covered them with in the past few years. There are easier classes for certain so choose what makes you happy. The locker room is crowded and not designed with good flow as everybody clogs up the entry. It is just not very big for the amount of people they have going there. The staff were super nice. It is expensive but all these organized classes, gyms, exercise places are! Namaste Biatches!

I frequent this CPY location the most due to not just proximity, but parking! Private lot versus the mess that is Grand Ave or Highland, both of which need at least 10 extra minutes to ensure parking.
Otherwise, the staff are all great at ensuring a clean environment, even in the wintertime when salt, snow and other junk tends to muck up the floors. The locker rooms do get a little bit crammed, which is to be expected at all locations, and the shopping inventory isn’t as robust as other locations. There is also a spa here, where they do massages and facials.

There’s something about this CorePower that seems to give off an air of a blasé suburban experience. I can’t put my finger on what’s wrong. This CorePower is located in a suburban strip mall so parking doesn’t seem to be a problem. It’s also located off the freeway so that’s convenience too. Rolled in here one Sunday for a 90 minute Hot Yoga class. My instructor was Marina. She was nice and was an adequate instructor. Room was sufficiently hot enough and there were about 15 people in the class so there was plenty of space to move without bumping into your neighbor. Marina didn’t skip any postures. The dressing room seemed kind of cramped though in terms of how they configured the lockers, dressing area, showers, bathrooms, etc. You need to bring your own lock for this studio. Like other CorePower locations, they provide mouthwash, tampons, soap, body wash, shampoo, conditioner, etc. which is nice. I don’t know. For some reason, I expected this studio to a lot bigger than what it was. The configuration of the studio, like the dressing room seemed kind of cramped and long. The experience and the studio was fine but I don’t think I’ll be coming back since Woodbury seemed like a hike to me but if I lived closer I might consider going to this studio more often just because of proximity.