Can We Make Slow October a Thing?

What we’re craving as the days gets shorter: empty calendar pages, lazy yoga, gingerbread

Searching for sunshine… © Design + Know-How

After a Rentrée that felt like a marathon to catch up, we are planning a slow October. This means looking at the weeks ahead and ensuring that the quadrants on our calendar reflect back a balance of work and play, busy squares and quiet blank ones.

Not always easy to accomplish but like yoga itself, it’s a practice.

To kick off this new month, our suggestion is to focus on building up your vital energy reserves, known as Ojas in Sanskrit:

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Ojas, Baby

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Stockpiling Ojas can be as simple as canceling an appointment to gift yourself some alone time (new/old favorite activity!) to baking gingerbread (thanks to

Farrah @Substack

for the reminder!) to giving meditation a try to doing some lazy yoga.

Not exactly lazy but how about a Sunday yoga class in a beautiful setting?

This Sunday October 6th, stretch and bend and breathe in Musée Carnavalet’s stunning ballroom. There are two sessions to choose from — one from 12h-13h30 and another from 15h30-17h. These classes are Iyengar (definitely not anyone’s idea of ‘lazy yoga’!) however they are all levels so you’re pretty much guaranteed maximum stability and zero acrobatics. At 7€ a pop, it’s a steal so reserve quickly if you’re interested.

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After the jump, weekly classes and a series of workshops to help you begin the process squirreling away energy for the longer nights ahead…