3 must-try yoga classes in Paris
To all those who are tired of doing their sun salutations alone, in the cramped living room of their small Parisian apartment, here are three likely yoga classes in the capital that modernize the practice and make you think that well-being rhymes also with collective.
1. The bar yoga class on the ground by KALON at the Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers
Forget everything you think you know about yoga. Chase from your head the images of the thirty-year-old in pink leggings and a hair band whispering “namaste” on a carpet, in a green garden, staring in accordance with the horizon. Let go, too, of your memories of conventional postures – from the sun salutation to the dog pose, including the postures of the child or the warrior – and your preconceived ideas. Invented by those who teach it, the KALON movement offers fitness training designed to develop full-length muscles, like those of dancers. Because the concept was totally invented by dancers from the world-renowned Parisian review Crazy Horse, it adapts to all needs, offering several variations, including dance classes in greenhouses or… yoga. Taking the KALON course means having the opportunity to work on your cardio, your breathing, your endurance and your serenity – all of this via online or physical courses. Since May 16, 2022, teachers and dancers have been giving lessons within the sublime Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, in the heart of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. In the ultra-spacious and impressive room with its Art Deco style, we meet for vinyasa yoga (rhythmic) mixed with the bar on the floor (a winning workout inspired by classical dance warm-ups). Elegant and tonic, the movements almost made you want to embark on a professional career…
Floor barre yoga class by KALON
Sundays at 12:30 p.m. at the Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers
243 St. Martin Street
Paris III
3. Clotilde Chaumet’s morning routine at Daroco
To all those who were looking, through yoga, for the opportunity to exert themselves, we advise you to go your way… Admittedly, the practice can be tiring, releasing endorphins and seen as a stress reliever, but there is no question here of leaving a lesson feeling like you have run ten kilometres. And Clotilde Chaumet understood it well. The one who offers, with her TIHHY Morning Routine concept, very energetic flow yoga classes where – and this is an understatement – you don’t get bored, comes to settle in the most popular Italian table in Paris, Daroco, for a gentle marine routine. Located in the heart of the 2nd arrondissement, rue Vivienne, the restaurant which is always full for lunch and dinner (especially since it opened its second address in the 16th arrondissement) is therefore pushing all its tables to offer the most valiant. five mornings rich in well-being, stretching and musical and sensory awakening. With an appointment at 8.15 a.m., the up early meets in the main room of the restaurant founded in 2016 to follow the sequences offered by Clotilde Chaumet, yoga star in France who trained in Los Angeles – and well-being influencer in her spare time (her Instagram account cumulating more than forty thousand subscribers). On the program: a sharp hip-hop playlist, a few sun salutations and, above all, a sharing between the teacher and her students who, while she burns incense and practices sound bath (sound vibrations emitted to meditate), keep telling them that the world belongs to them. You have to admit it: even if you already knew it, it’s always nice to hear it said.
Morning routine of Clotilde Chaumetlast session of the first session on June 28
DAROCO Scholarship
6 Vivienne Street
Paris II
2. La Montgolfière yoga classes
The social sports club La Montgolfière continues to be talked about. It’s very simple: Parisians, whether they live in the extreme north or south of the capital, gather in this unique and soothing space to exercise, both in groups or alone. Founded in 2018 in a place that has had a thousand lives, where a hot-air balloon factory, an SNCF workshop and even filming studios that belonged to Luc Besson have succeeded one another, La Montgolfière offers, above its co-working space and its Rond restaurant located on the ground floor, group yoga classes. In addition to providing weight training and cardio training machines and providing boxing training, there are, in a room of one hundred and fifty square meters, yoga, pilates, meditation and various dance classes. Here, Number tested vinyasa yoga, an hour of dynamic sequences punctuated by breathing. With an ultra-smiling teacher, you come out boosted, with the desire to try other practices taught here, from yin yoga (designed to release joint tension) to classical yoga (given on a classical music playlist).
The yoga classes of social sports club La Montgolfière can be booked online here.
The hot-air balloon
25, rue Yves Toudic
Paris X