Yoga Mob Berating Innocent Staff In Viral Video Is Almost Too On The Nose

A mob of spandex-clad yogis stormed a Minneapolis CorePower Yoga studio, berating two staff members for being “complicit” in federal immigration procedures. 

A six-minute video posted by Heather Anderson on Sunday shows the irate, sports-bra wearing women yelling at two frazzled employees, while Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” plays in the background. 

“Give us answers, let’s go … let’s hear it, Why are you being silent?” says Anderson, 51, from behind the camera. 

“Why are you walking away?” Anderson asks an employee, who responds that she’s unlocking the door.

“Let’s go, no, let’s give us answers, say it out loud in front of the camera for all of my viewers, why are you being silent?” Anderson continues. One marvels at the pathetic nature of this scene: A middle-aged woman high on the thought of humiliating the staffers of a cultish exercise franchise. (RELATED: Customers Complaining Their Pricey Workout Clothes Exposing Their Crotch, Butts. Lululemon Blames The Public) 

“Let’s hear it, Delaney, loud and proud, baby. You want to say it, let’s f*cking say it,” says Anderson.

“You should have well-rehearsed corporate action and words ready to go … I sent out $10,000 for people for rent yesterday … Delaney, let’s hear a goddamn answer,” Anderson rambles.

Cue snaps from the mob, a preferred alternative to clapping in activist circles.

“The silence is deafening,” another person chimes in.

When an employee says she’s going to “[take] a pause,” Anderson snaps: “No, don’t take a pause! Come on, you came here to silence teachers … Don’t take a pause, be loud with CorePower corporate’s answers. Let’s f*cking go! What do you gotta say? Louder, Delaney!” she screams.

I think the thing that bothers me most about this @CorePowerYoga video is that it’s about compelled language. I took the CP “teacher” training in 2024. I objected strenuously to their practice of compelling language–🧵https://t.co/Un9NJgDDbs

— Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) February 6, 2026

“Person in the glasses, you have a good answer? Delaney can’t seem to cough it up,” she says. 

“Well, I mean, we’re being berated right now,” that staffer begins. 

“You’re not being berated — you’re being asked hard questions that you should’ve done been answered … Trust me, berating is what our neighbors are living through,” Anderson screams.

The employee apologizes, before Anderson asks whether employees will put the “ICE sign back on the front door.”

“We don’t want to chat, we want action,” says Anderson.

“Is that the ask?” An employee questions, before another woman starts yelling. 

“CorePower is a major corporation, they’re all over this country … The fact that they are staying silent about what is happening in Minneapolis, not only staying silent but trying to silence us in speaking out … That is complicit. It’s not okay. People are being murdered and abducted and attacked here, and it is heinous. I am a nurse, it kills me to see people getting f*cking murdered in our community. This is our community and this is bullshit!” The woman complains, seemingly on the verge of tears.

Cue more snapping.

“We’re giving you f*cking thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars … We can f*cking get a yoga studio someplace else,” says the unidentified woman. 

More snapping.

“I can give a sh*t if you personally care about what is happening here, the fact is you guys are here to … be the face of corporate for us, to give a listening ear.”

“The ear is that everybody’s mad, the ear is that this community needs help, the ear is that, like, just, like, saying ‘Okay, we’ll put the sign on the door,’ that’s not what we’re looking for. We’re looking for more help, we’re looking for the corporations that we give our dollars to to stand up for what we believe in,” another woman says.

My primary takeaway is: “All Night Long” holds up. My secondary takeaway is that self-righteous authoritarianism may be the most insufferable kind. (RELATED: NY Times Not Too Happy Over New Acronym For Liberal White Women) 

“What I said in that video landed,” Anderson told the New York Post.

“When that happens and the other party doesn’t want to engage with a learning stance — there’s a self-preservation stance — then they just dismiss you. They have more power than me, they have a corporation behind them — I am easy to swat away.” 

I think of C.S. Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” 

I can hardly come up with a better description of Anderson and company than “omnipotent moral busybodies.” 

CorePower isn’t helping matters. Chief executive officer Niki Leondakis sent a mass email to customers following the incident, clarifying: “We do not support the violent ICE raids happening in Minneapolis.” 

Leondakis added, “Because of the severity of the behavior on display, we suspended the memberships and access privileges of the students involved.”

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