Bikram’s Yoga College of India

Word of caution: Unless you have practiced yoga in amounts that you can achieve a state of complete nirvana and ignore everything within your immediate surroundings, dont go to this studio.
This studio consists of:
space heaters
free mats (that I highly doubt are washed between practices)
office carpeting INSIDE the studio (absorbing bucket loads of sweat that is the immediate byproduct of practicing hot yoga)
really dirty changerooms
The teachers are learned and patient but very true to Ms. J’s review. They do criticize and/​or turn back heavily «scented» first-​timers, and completely fail to actually smell their own studio (which stinks by the way).
The studio offers a $ 30 for 30 days hot yoga challenge which seems to be the only attraction. Still, if youre in such dire straits, turn the heating up and practice the crane pose in the comfort of your own home.

Visited this location (Bikram Yoga Annex) with a friend and we were refused in a very rude manner by Aranka Shkolnikov, the wife of the owner — Sasha. The reason was that we had «fragrant scents» on our body (in reality hair shampoo). No problem, we would have come back another day, except Aranka took the liberty of telling us that «perhaps this studio in not the place for you». What? Based on what? Being people of colour that statement did not go down well. Aranka offended us, and didn’t seem to care. We called Sasha to relay our feeling of unwelcomness, and he didn’t seem to care either. Well figures, they are Bikram and Bishnu Yoga Instructors. That means like Bikram Choudhury, the multi-​millionaire Indian yoga guru and the founder of Bikram Yoga, they are lacking any real sense of spirituality or humanity.
Somewhere in learning the «authentic» Hot Yoga Sasha and Aranka became too selective of whom to share it with.