Yoga in Moscow

This is the entrance to my wonderful yoga centre in Moscow. I love this place because its shabby and rough exterior give it a certain authentic rustic feel. It helps in yoga as it takes away all associations with yummy mummies spending their quite hours between dropping children off and collecting them from variuos child care places meditating with their good looking yoga teacher. In our yoga room there are punching bags, cracked basement windows and bars across the ceiling where our good looking yoga teacher does one-armed pulls ups whilst we're holding various poses. I think it's to test our concentration.




This is the hall where we usually have to wait for the previous class to finish. Russians don't do things by halves and most classes last over 2 hours long. I have been in classes that last over 3 hours and finishing after midnight. Sure enough the next day I dozily hobbled around the office. The sleep was so deep after that, that it took me a few days to wake up again. The good thing is that you really get your money's worth and the teachers guage the level of experience of the class and the energy levels so each class is slightly different. I rarely feel underworked or disspointed.



In most places in Russia there is a little woman who looks very similar to this with somme perfunctory role which usually involves exchanging tokens for money, money for tokens, tokens for other tokends and yelling at people that don't understand the token system. She treats you like one of her own and reminds me of one of the matrons at my boarding school. They also never have any change. This particular one managed to leave mid yoga class last week, locking the teacher's belongings in the office and locking all of us in the basement as she left, locking the door behind her. Luckily its not only women that do yoga and we had one gallant man who found a spade to lever open the door. She does ensure though that you pay them the modest amount of 7 pounds a class, or marks off your monthly card if you are a dedicated and regular yogi.



Their website has timetables, prices and directions for all 4 locations around Moscow and also details for St.Petersburg. There are pictures of all the teachers on there too. The site is also in English and they have some English speaking teachers. This is their website here