Modo Yoga LA — Attraction in Los Angeles

Until recently, I've only attended the heated HIIT Pilates classes here. No complaints at all about that one - I've had two different instructors (Madisyn and Florence), and they were both great. This class was always challenging and I would leave feeling like I got a great workout in. Both teachers had great energy and were helpful and encouraging. Based on the HIIT Pilates classes alone, I would have rated this place 5 stars.

However, I had such a baffling and bizarre experience here recently that I don't anticipate ever returning again.

I decided to try out my first hot yoga class here, and my instructor was Simonee. I arrived to the studio 10-15 minutes early. There were two staff members (a man and a woman) at the front desk who were each helping a customer, so I waited in line to check-in. The female employee finished with her customer first, so I went to her, smiled, said hi, and gave her my name. Being that it was a hot yoga class, I needed to rent a sweat towel. However, not only did she not ask if I needed anything for class, she just didn't say anything at all - it was very bizarre, she literally sat silently, staring me in the eye, with a disgusted look on her face.

I didn't really know what to do, so I kind of just stood there feeling awkward and waiting for her to acknowledge that I was checked in so I could rent my sweat towel and be on my way. After quite literally about 30 seconds of this, another customer entered the studio behind me. The employee literally JUMPED out of her seat and excitedly greeted the customer by name, gave her a hug, and started making conversation with her... meanwhile I'm still standing there not knowing what to do. At this point, the male employee finished up with his customer and offered to help me out. He was kind and efficient.

Once I was in the class, the instructor walked in the room... lo and behold, it was the female employee from the front desk. The class itself was very challenging, but it felt very different vibe-wise from other yoga classes I've taken. It didn't feel like the spiritual components were there, it felt more just like pure exercise. I got a good workout in, but the yoga classes I enjoy most also leave me feeling spiritually nourished, and this one didn't do that.

The class environment was kind of odd as well - the person to the left of me was doing literal acrobatics, which is fine, I'm happy for her that she can do that, but it's like girly we are supposed to be in happy baby right now and you're doing a stationary cartwheel. The person to the right of me put his mat down so close to mine (he had plenty of room on the other side) that the whole time, his sweat kept flicking all over my face and body. At other studios I've been to, the instructor will gently handle it if a student is being distracting or getting too close.

As I was exiting the room after class, Simonee and I made eye contact. I gave her a polite smile, and she responded by LITERALLY looking me up and down, curling her lip, and giving me a completely disgusted look even worse than the one she gave me at check in! I was so shocked, I didn't even react.

I've never met this woman before in my life, it was very bizarre. Maybe she was offended that I, not knowing she was the instructor, assumed she worked at the front desk and thus approached her to be checked in..? Or maybe this class is just for regulars, given how warmly she treated the clearly-repeat students throughout class.

Regardless, it was such a shocking customer service experience and made me feel completely unwelcome here. Despite my positive experiences with other classes and instructors, moving forward I will likely avoid this place entirely because of this experience.

I have never been treated like that at any business establishment I have ever been to in my life. Perhaps if Simonee chooses to be more in tune with the spiritual, love and unity based side of the practice of yoga she could feel compelled to...

Whether you’re experienced or unexperienced, I strongly suggest you pass on this La Brea located studio. Don’t waste your peace, practice, energy, or $32 on a class here. There are far better yoga studios in LA that offer a better (cleaner and unpretentious) yoga experience.

I’ve been here plenty of times (including other Moda locations) to discern at this point that this is just a physical exercise for this particular location, it is not a place of peace, moral virtue, etc. that the philosophy of the practice harnesses.

I’ve practiced yoga for twenty years (around the world) and have never been to a place that doesn’t honor the purpose of the practice as much as this studio. The studio is not the tidiest and it is not an authentic yoga studio filled with spiritual, welcoming, socially conscious individuals that are leading with unity and love (two concepts that are essential to all limbs in the yoga philosophy).

It is also NOT a cultured place to practice ( I am a person of color, a blend of cultures). The uncultured part never bothered me so much until today when I felt a prejudice.

Before the class started an older white woman who wanted to position herself where she was comfortable (meaning I had to move my mat I placed before she walked in) LIED on me. She went out to the front desk and lied and told the instructor (Deacon) that I was on the phone while I was stretching. I was never on the phone and would never be on the phone when entering the business, studio, before class starts, etc.

She also told him that I wasn’t on the red tape. Not many were, most were on the black tape. She had been weirdly eyeing me out while I was stretching as if she was bothered by my presence, but I paid it no mind.

Well, the instructor (Deacon) stormed in, not to make an announcement to everyone, but to stand over me and my mat and single me out… demanding that I put my fanny pack (that I carry my emergency contact info in) in a dirty locker (they’re never cleaned) and made me move my mat.

As I walked to other end of the wall to move completely away from the woman, I noticed that not all practitioners were lined up to the red tape, but he never made an official announcement to everyone. It was about singling me out and making me move to make her superior.

I would have handled that completely different, but again, it’s this particular yoga studio that has this bad energy looming.

The irony of it all.. before the class started, when I checked in at the desk, the concierge asked if I had any special requests, and I simply responded “for the instructor to go easy on me” and the instructor, Deacon was sitting there and heard me.

The times I’ve practiced here, the instructor (referred to as Deacon), has had a hard core rude personality and carries himself with an unnecessary level of superiority. It is a very unpleasant energy, but if you love sarcasm, have a high threshold for being talked to rudely and having your positive spirit nudged for unnecessary petty things before class starts, and can tolerate prejudice…you’ll be fine. I live 5 mins away, but it won't be an option going forward and I'll never recommend it to anyone. Ever! By far the worse yoga studio I’ve been to in Los Angeles. Set your...

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