Yoga Needs

A while ago, I made a list of things I need to have in my life. Yoga was one of them. So when I arrived in Paris, I was pleased to find that yoga alive and mushrooming all over Paris.

Unfortunately, I forgot to be specific on my wish list. I should have specified yoga that
- makes you sweat--I mean, you told me to bring a towel!
- builds on a specific movement or body area or theme for the class and is not just poses randomly cobbled together
- challenges me from start to end--I almost fell asleep once--in a pose, not during final relaxation!
- has a hands-on teacher
- is not routine--which I can tell just by seeing if students would anticipate the teacher's spoken instructions

I didn't think this would be hard to find, especially at 15-25 euros a class. But it is.

Is it only in New York where teachers belt out the chants as though they were on Broadway, make sweat drip down your face to collect in a pool on your mat, push you to do things you didn't think you could do, live yoga as a passion rather than some bland, neat philosophy?

Maybe I should start going to the 25 euro classes, just to see. Such as to the studio in the photo above, for one example, element in St-Germain-des-Pres, one of the poshest neighborhoods in Paris. Those funky dots on the ceiling? Lights designed by Philippe Cholet et Jean Luc Ledeun. They have designers for their lights. Is this why tuition will be so high?