Moksha Yoga Windsor

Definitely best place for yoga in Windsor. Teachers are great, very professional and knowledgeable. Great place to relax, clear your head and get some workout of course. Very flexible hours and different types of yoga for those more advanced, but also great just for beginners. Can’t beat great location in heart of Windsor on Ottawa street with its own well lit parking in the back of the studio.

This is an excellent yoga studio. I have attended two of Kents classes, one moska and one yin. Both were great classes, however I think I prefer the yin.
I really enjoyed the spiritual script reading at the start of the yin class.
Overall the studio is very appealing and clean. Classes are always nearly full capacity.
One nice feature is they allow bicycles to be stored in the studio foyer and offer free yoga matt rental to customers who cycle to yoga class… great green living inspiration.

One of a kind yoga studio with a welcoming staff. You can feel at home your very first visit. The room is heated and the hearts are warm. Big thumbs up!!!

This studio is in really great location for me-​really, could not be more convenient unless it was in my living room. The first time I came here, i was surprised how unwelcoming and snobby the girl at the front desk was. I was «welcomed» with: «excuse me, are you here for yoga». This was my first time there and I wasn’t offered a word of where the change room, restroom or class set-​up, etc.
Nonetheless, a friend of mine wanted company to use up her gift certificate and I didn’t want to make a hasty judgement so I came for several more classes. Each subsequent experience has been just as disappointing, until one day my friend offered that she would much rather not use the remainder of certificate than keep coming back. I was so relieved and we have not been for class then!
Since then whenever Moksha comes up with friends or acquaintances, I am surprised to hear that everybody i have come across that has been there, has had a disappointing experience.
Such a shame, as I am such a fan of hot yoga and I love Moksha location, I really wish somebody who is truly understands and appreciates yoga would run this studio.

I don’t wish to harm Moksha’s business by writing a bad review, but I think it’s important to hold studios accountable for their space and the things that go on within their walls.
My partner and I bought a month of unlimited yoga here, and went to a number of different classes with different instructors. Everyone is perfectly nice and the classes were ok, but there is a big problem here with the «guru» mentality that can come up when the ego is allowed to enter into one’s teaching. The first instance of this I observed when one of the instructors was giving me an adjustment. Rather than waiting until I naturally exhaled, she told me forcefully «EXHALE», in the middle of my inhale, as she pushed me way deeper into a twist than was comfortable for me. This is totally improper and inappropriate. I have observed the teachers on several occasions taking the position that they know what is best for the student more than the student him or herself– trying to coerce people to move deeper into things they may not have wanted to that day, for whatever reason. I don’t like that «rock star yoga teacher» thing that makes some teachers think they know better than the students. This is the ego and it has no place in a safe space to practice and learn at your own pace.
More importantly, no one at this studio has ever asked me my preferences for adjustments, yet I have received adjustments from all of them. I firmly believe in asking each student if he or she is ok with adjustments before just walking up to someone and putting your hands on them in a very personal way. Not everyone is comfortable with that, and this should be respected in all yoga classes. There is a male teacher here who gives out adjustments LIBERALLY. I wasn’t totally comfortable with him adjusting me in child’s pose without asking my permission first. Had I been asked at any point, I would have said that I’d prefer to just be given verbal adjustments.
Finally, the discourse that goes on at the front desk is really inappropriate sometimes. I’ve heard a number of gossipy stories, and once one of the instructors actually told me about how drunk she got the night before, and how glad she was that she vomited before going to bed since she was teaching the next day. Great! Perfect information to share with your student.

For the first 15 minutes I was at Moksha, I was happy I chose this yoga studio during my holiday visit to Windsor. Check-​in was smooth and the staff was helpful and friendly. The studio was bustling, but it didn’t feel cramped or loud. I loved the spacious locker room area. Most importantly, I felt like I was able to take care of all my pre-​class business (changing, filling up my water bottle, setting up props, etc.) efficiently.
But once the class started, I was disappointed. I’m used to hot yoga, but this was beyond anything I’ve experienced before. The instructor actually said after class that she intentionally cranked it up for the holidays. What? I’m sorry, but you can’t just haphazardly decide to crank up the heat without telling anyone or advertising it first.
Heat aside, the class was pretty basic, but lacked any detailed instructions about the poses or how to get into them deeper. I saw the instructor give a few different adjustments to people – not enough to make me feel like she was really making a difference or paying careful attention to alignment. As a matter of fact, as she passed my husband trying to get into a humble warrior, she said, «Someone’s got tight shoulders» and then breezed by. To me, that would have been the perfect opportunity to hand him a strap and show him how it can help open him up and provide more range of motion. Instead, the comment felt like a snippy judgment, a reaction that simply has no place in a yoga studio.
I was super excited when the instructor announced that it was time for the «flow» portion of the class since I’m a vinyasa girl. But she roamed the room, without any instruction for specifics or suggestions for safety, and made it feel like a speed competition. I heard her say, so-​and-​so «for the win!» as she passed a man who was doing chaturangas like there was a gun held to his head. That type of competitiveness just isn’t my style when I’m in a yoga class and it left a bad taste in my mouth.
I wish I had time to experience a different class with a different instructor. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll come back to this studio.

The only hot yoga studio in Windsor, just opened as of this weekend (Nov 2012). Beautiful interior space, very green and Eco-​conscious. Great instructors. I really enjoyed my first experience here, it was tough and sweaty but we felt great when it was over. Highly recommended, check it out!