Yoga’s hot house
Hermosa’s Soho Yoga bends stereotypes On a first visit, one could be forgiven for mistaking Hermosa Beach’s Soho Yoga for a spa. The glass beverage dispenser near a door to the heated studio carries a rotating cast of delicately flavored ice water (Strawberry!). There are complimentary face towels, like the kind given out on nice airlines, but they are chilled rather than heated. A solitary vending machine sells nothing but bottled water. The spell of formality is broken, pleasingly, by a sign in the bathrooms. In the men’s room, it is perched near the urinal, like the sports page at a Hooters and features a list of guidelines for practicing. It addresses common yoga courtesies, like arriving early and removing shoes, but with a kind of jocularity that belies the place’s serious workout credentials. Phones are called “robot devices,” and students are kindly asked to leave them outside the practice rooms. “Moaners” are welcomed, but are asked to be sensitive to those around them. (That this list is posted in the bathroom, where one could conceivably come and go from practice without ever seeing it, only emphasizes the gentleness with which it treats its subject.) “There are moments…
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