The Best Yoga Studios In Mumbai
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One advantage of living in a city like Mumbai are the numerous fitness options it presents. Last month, we brought you a list of Mumbai’s most luxurious gyms. Now we present a guide to some of its finest yoga studios. Offering everything from group classes to personal training, Hatha to Bikram yoga – these studios are where you should be headed.
1. The Yoga House
Restaurant, Indian
With a strong belief that yoga is the most valuable Indian inheritance of the present and conviction that it is an essential need of today, this Banda-based studio organizes a variety of yoga classes, retreats, and workshops. The Yoga House hosts more than 30 Hatha yoga classes a week for all levels, and has at least ten in-house instructors on the average. Recent workshops hosted here include one on meditation yoga featuring live classic music, whereas recent retreats include Dharamsala and a tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh. The studio also has a branch in Varanasi.
2. Yoga 101
Yoga Studio
This small studio in Andheri hosts a variety of workshops, attempting to bring all different kinds of yogas and practitioners under one roof. With a uniquely friendly atmosphere, a focus on sharing and learning, and instructors from around the world teaching different schools of yoga, Yoga 101 has much to offer curious beginners as well as advanced-level folks. The studio even contains a library, featuring various donated books and a common area for people to sit and read them.
3. Yogacara
Yoga Studio
Yoga by the sea is just what you need to cure your city blues. Claiming to be an urban sanctuary for the inner-most being, Yogacara offers a range of Hatha and Iyengar classes, workshops, and even teacher training. Besides yoga, classes are also offered for meditation, preventive and rejuvenation therapies, and therapeutic massage. It also hosts various retreats in the Himalayas called the Living Yoga & Hiking Retreats, led by Radhika Vachani, founder of Yogacara, along with Vikram Maira, an experienced high altitude trekker.