Minneapolis Yoga Students Confront CorePower, Demand Studio Denounce ICE

A viral six-minute clip posted to social media by Heather Anderson captured at least 13 women confronting two female staffers in the lobby of the CorePower Yoga studio at 501 Washington Ave S Suite 200 in downtown Minneapolis, shouting demands that instructors publicly denounce ICE. Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long” can be heard in the background of the clip as customers shout, clap, and film the scene.

Customers and outlets report the confrontation was sparked after an instructor placed an anti-ICE sign in the studio window and the sign was removed. The New York Post and the Daily Mail describe customers telling the story as: corporate allegedly instructed management to take down the “ICE out” sign, the instructor quit, and gossip among regulars precipitated the lobby showdown. Heather Anderson told The Post she has been a regular at the location for nearly a decade and added, “By the way, every single business in Minneapolis has something on their door right now — it’s not like we were asking for something out of the loop.”

CorePower Yoga posted an Instagram statement addressing the incident, and published messaging that sources say outlined opposition to ICE raids in Minneapolis and support for employees. Some coverage cites the company as agreeing to post anti-ICE signage in its studios; that specific commitment appears in opinion and secondary reporting and has not been reproduced in full in the available materials. Conflicting reports also describe discipline: the Daily Mail reports that “everyone in the class was suspended for 90 days,” while Jason Rantz at Seattlered reports Heather Anderson was “reportedly banned from returning.”

First-person commentary and local reaction have amplified the clip. A writer at The Free Press, who said they were a member of the same CorePower for a dozen years, described receiving the video from three people and recounted the mob-style atmosphere: older women filming, snapping, shouting, and the crowd chant, “Let’s hear it, Delaney—loud and proud, baby. You want to say it? Let’s fucking say it.” Daily Mail published novelist Ann Bauer’s account that she left Minneapolis in late 2025 for Kentucky with her husband John Gateley and cited the studio incident as emblematic of what she calls “woke mobs.”

The clash unfolded amid reporting of ongoing federal immigration operations in Minneapolis, a context cited repeatedly in coverage. Opinion columns have turned on tactics as much as policy: on February 7, 2026, Jason Rantz wrote that the episode showed “pressuring, shaming, and cornering staff who have no policymaking authority” and called the tactic “a display of intolerance masquerading as activism.”

Key factual questions remain unresolved in public reporting: whether corporate explicitly ordered the sign removed, whether the unnamed instructor actually quit, and whether the 90-day suspensions or a ban on Heather Anderson were formally imposed by the studio or by CorePower. The company’s Instagram post and any studio-level communications will be central to clarifying what commitments or disciplinary actions followed the viral confrontation and whether the Minneapolis location becomes a test case for how yoga studios navigate political pressure from customers.