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Aggressive teacher still on staff & gouged $ when I requested to depart after years as a member

I had a really bad experience with a teacher at Body Electric Yoga after many years as a full member. Then they gouged me for my membership fee rather than making it right even though they admitted what this teacher did was absolutely out of line. I'd been a member for many years, but was unpleasantly bothered by one teacher who always made negative comments re: me not taking his class. I took all other classes, all other teachers, happily. Both I (and others this guy pestered) politely declined, saying "oh gosh - just doesn't work for my schedule.') But then one day he was subbing for my class and said possibly the most rude, aggressive, insulting thing to me (after again chiding me for not taking his classes). I've since heard around town that this is his mojo. I told him directly and I discussed with managers Abby and Lauren. The end result was that it seemed "discussed" but also "well he's been here 8 years and we've now talked to him so" - I knew that I needed to find a studio that would make me feel good & safe when I walk in at 7am to do healthy, hard things. Here's the rub - after many years of membership, I'd just paid my full annual membership in May. I asked for a prorated refund. They instead only refunded $424 (less than half of what I was due) b/c they said they "charged me back" for non-member costs of my May-June classes. I was trying to be fair and just move on. (E.g. I did not lawyer-up or such.) I said "I'm not a regular customer leaving on a whim - your staff member was aggressive and insulting - I'm only asking for a fair refund of the 10 remaining months I'd paid for." They disregarded my many years of membership payments to them and evidently they needed those extra couple bucks one wee little yogi, me, trying to move the money forth to pay for a nicer studio. So those bucks are my gift to them. #Karma