Paris Studio Spotlight: Ashtanga Yoga Paris
A mindful, compassionate yoga experience whether you’re a beginner or experimenting with advanced postures
One of the first things that greets you upon entering Ashtanga Yoga Paris is a dancing figure of Ganesh.
As always, Ganesh stands at the threshold, an elephant-headed, human-bodied harbinger of transition — between the busy street outside and the calm of the studio, between the known and the unknown, the “you” before your practice and the “you” afterward.
Doorway to more
Ganesh represents a doorway to more, and that’s what Ashtanga Yoga Paris celebrates. In addition to a full schedule of daily Mysore, Ashtanga and Vinyasa classes, there are more meditative sessions like Restorative Yoga or Pranayama, as well as workshops and trainings.
Co-founders Gérald Disse and Linda Munro have trained nearly every teacher at their studio which means there is a kind of high level quality control at work: you are pretty much guaranteed a mindful, compassionate yoga experience whether you’re just beginning your Mysore practice, or experimenting with advanced postures. Gérald and Linda are long-time yogis themselves (doing yoga before it was even trendy) and have never forgotten what it’s like to be a newbie. They — and by extension, their teachers — share a wealth of knowledge built up over years of daily practice.
FUN FACT: Ashtanga Yoga Paris was one of Paris’ first yoga studios to offer sessions in English in addition to French.
