Down Under School of Yoga - Brookline — Local services in Brookline

I am writing to review Gregor Singleton.

With all the ups and downs we are going through right now, I can’t think of a better investment in our well-being than signing up for the class with Gregor Singleton. I first met Gregor 15 years, and without a doubt, there is no one like Gregor when compared with the best yoga teachers!

Every minute of a 90-minute class with Gregor counts. Starting with ever so gently, “let’s begin’, Gregor will take you through the steps of interconnected movements and breaths, signaling your mind and body to relax and begin to discover the return of your health and self-empowerment.

Every word you hear comes with the wisdom of a master of yoga and the fluency and precision of academic scholar, in a way that only Gregor can craft, as his outstanding education in classic literature and a past career in Royal Arts shapes it.

Gregor makes it easy for anyone to animate the most abstract ideas related to human perceptions and feelings, which is soothing and brings your sense of knowing how to move, breath, and be at any moment.

Gregor’s lessons are often packed, so if you are even a few minutes late, you might end up squeezing your mat at the farthest space in the studio or the most visible spot. Regardless of where you land or how many students are around you, you will likely feel like the only student in the class. Gregor’s reassuring way of speaking coveys such a sense of trust, as if you are conversing with an old friend.

Thank you, Gregor, for empowering the community through achieving our best health and...

I have been doing yoga at the Brookline studio for about a year. The teachers at this studio are friendly and professional. They are pretty good at teaching, and comparatively as good as anywhere in the area.

Recently the studio was having some discussion regarding the metoo movement. They were talking about adopting some strategies for students to opt out of contact with teachers. It is hard for me to believe that adult women are paralyzed or helpless in class, and even harder to believe that women do not already have the ability to express themselves without some sort of esoteric communication strategy supplied to them by the studio. In general this sort of thing strikes me as going against the grain of the women's liberation movement, since I already believe women to be competent to do this thinking on their own. Since there have apparently been no incidents at this studio, the whole discussion was awkward to begin with, and more in line with the cultural progressive currents than about the needs of students. In any case, no harm done.

In truth, I don't understand where ideas like 'trigger warnings' and 'safe spaces' originate from. To me, there really are no safe spaces in the world, and it does a disservice to perpetuate the sort of illusions that we live in separate safe zones, since you are not only still not safe, but you have decided you are not going to adjust or learn anything new.

Overall I can recommend...

I recently started doing yoga. As a complete beginner, I feel so fortunate that this was the place that I stumbled in. The community built on down under is incredibly welcoming, friendly, and passionate.

The studio is super clean. It has showers, bathrooms, and lockers for your stuff, and there is always someone ready to greet you and answer your questions.

They always have events going on, whether its special deals for membership, special classes supporting a broader cause, fun challenges, or they dropped a clothing line!?, and they also have yoga workshops to dive deeper into certain topics.

The instructors are the nicest, most talented people I've met. Every time I've taken a class with a new instructor, I leave the studio happy and motivated to come back.

And they really take the feedback from their members seriously. I've only been coming here for a couple of months, but I feel like I have been a member for years. They ask through surveys about satisfaction with the state of the studio, the quality, diversity, and availavility of the classes, and you see them changing things to better fit the members.

They also have a bunch of different locations around boston, which is very convenient to take a break and dive into your yoga practice wherever you are in the city. There's also an associated wellness center where you can schedule different kinds...