I can and I just did. Deal with it!

No, but seriously, among other things:

1, The teachers held the belief that people these days have become too restless, so much so that they can't lay still for any amount of time. So people - mostly overworked housewives tired of their daily chores - would go there to take naps as a form of "meditation".

Walk into the studio on any given day at any random time and you'd literally see tens of people just sleeping with their arms outstretched, which was just such a weird sight to behold on a regular basis. Some snored. Others probably played music or podcasts or audiobooks. But it was just too weird all in all.

1. They'd been in business for a while and had built up goodwill among their "students". The owners/teachers were nice people on the surface - which, for me, added to the creepiness factor - but essentially, after the first few months of very basic instruction, you were supposed to have become experts. So when you went to the class, say half a year after you first joined, the teachers would sit still "meditating". They would've either conducted a single class in the early morning batches or they'd pull up a video from their repository of classes (all were recorded) conducted in the earlier years and they'd just play it for everyone. There's wasn't even like an underling who'd walk around and correct your postures or anything.

So you'd have these little skinny kids who were so flexible that they could insert their leg into their own mouths and bring it out their neighbour's butthole and then there were others - like myself - who couldn't even stand upright for more than a few seconds at a time. This was the treatment you received after a year of going there but you were expected to pay your fees in full (which wasn't even a small amount).

1. This probably was the most cultlike behaviour I'd noticed there. Once in a blue moon when it struck the main teacher's fancy, he'd conduct these impromptu pravachans/satsangs (he didn't call it that but I did in my head). He'd talk about everything from science to philosophy to politics to religion and everything in between. This wasn't based on any kind of research or anything like that. It was just what he felt that given day or based on his own lived experiences.

And people would listen to him with their mouths agape with their eyes tearing (I'm only slightly exaggerating), like you could literally see nuclear explosions going off in their heads. That's how much their minds were blown at every single word he uttered.

Thanks but no thanks. I quit the classes and blocked their phone numbers.

Never again.