Need to stretch out some tension, lose weight or just enjoy the mind-body-and-soul approach to exercise? Yoga in all its forms has become an increasingly popular activity for all ages, and Luxembourg has plenty of places to try it out – from family yoga sessions and beginners' Yin classes to advanced hot box Bikram. We also cover Pilates at the end of the article.
If we've missed your favourite yoga studio in Luxembourg, let us know and we'll add it to the list.
First...some advice from the yogis
The most popularly practiced forms of yoga are listed below, but yogis will tell you to try a few classes and teachers to find the right one, as it's a bit like finding a good therapist.
Beginners should make sure that teachers have a good level of training, understand anatomy, and are able to adjust your pose or posture to ensure you don't do any damage.
Types of yoga popular in Luxembourg
Hatha yoga is ideal for beginners, and incorporates most yoga styles using posture and breathing exercises usually in a relatively gentle and slow format.
Vinyasa yoga is very popular and taught at most yoga studios. Postures are usually done in a sequence where movement and breathing flows, often to music.
Ashtanga yoga is the most traditional of Indian yoga and means "eight limbs". Usually performed in silence, it also synchronises breathing and movement.
Iyengar yoga emphasises alignment using breath control and props such as blocks, straps, bolsters or balls (it's also considered a good option for beginners). Postures are held for longer to ensure alignment is correct.
Bikram yoga consists of the same 26 poses and two breathing exercises and is usually done in a room with a temperature and humidity of 40 degrees (hence the term hot box). It's more intense and probably best for those who have experience of yoga postures.
Yin is a restorative yoga that uses supported postures (with blankets, bolsters or bricks) which are held for two to five minutes to open up fascia, ligaments and tendons and create a sense of mental calm. It's often combined with Yang yoga to build muscle strength.
Yoga Nidra also known as “yogic sleep” is relaxing guided mediation often performed lying down. It’s used to reset the nervous system, to reduce stress and anxiety and improve memory and learning ability..
Yoga studios
Yoga Balance – Walferdange
Yogis give a thumbs-up to Jennifer Crisman who runs Yoga Balance and offers a range of classes mainly in Vinyasa (including hot Vinyasa) and Hatha styles, but also in Yin, Yin/Yang and Nidra, Chakra, bar yoga, and beginner's and pre-natal yoga. There are also classes for kids and teens, with different age groups and classes during the week and at weekends.
There are a number of different yoga specialists, men and women, and the team run retreats and workshops. You can find the full schedule for Walferdange here.
Yogaloft – Kirchberg, Limpertsberg, Gare, Strassen, Parc Merl (seasonal)
Yogaloft offers classes in Yin/Yang, restorative Yin, Vinyasa and Somatic yogas, plus mindfulness meditation and gentle back yoga, in addition to classes especially tailored to seniors and Tropics Hot Box yoga. They also offer yoga for post and pre-natal mothers and children (including toddlers but also aerial yoga for kids aged 7-10). Yogaloft also has a sanctuary offering different types of massage (including baby massage) and reflexology, available at their locations in Kirchberg and Limpertsberg.
Outdoor classes are held in Parc Merl during the warmer months.
Yin and Nida practitioner, Valérie Metta also has weekly classes on Wednesday evening at the Kass Haff farm and special workshops and retreats.
BYLU – Limpertsberg
Offering numerous Bikram classes with Polly, Emilie, Victoria, Vanessa and Shireley at BYLU you can also try Yin yoga on Saturdays and Wednesdays, plus an early morning FIX yoga class at 6.30 on Monday and Wednesday and hot Pilates at the same time on Tuesday. They also have teen yoga for 13-18 year olds, and an on-demand service if you are away.
Jivamukti Yoga – Limpertsberg
If you're looking for something that covers the spiritual as well as physical, then Jivamukti Yoga has classes in Jivamukti (translates to soul liberation) yoga taught by Dr Magali Lehners and her team. It also offers beginner Vinyasa classes, Yin, senior and gentle yoga, and has a range of levels starting with beginners. The outfit plans to start online workshops with Emma Henry who is based in London.
Iyengar Yoga - Luxembourg City
Based at Studio 5 next to Konrad Cafe in the old town, this fairly new yoga studio, offers daily classes for beginners, experienced yogis and even teachers, in a welcoming environment with Floriane and Beata - both speak English. You can take one class, or a card for four, 10, 12 or 20 classes. They have restorative, back care and healthy aging classes.
AeroYoga Luxembourg – Gare district/Esch-sur-Alzette
AeroYoga ® was created 10 years ago and allows you to do yoga in a hammock equipped with stirrups of varying lengths so you can practice yoga postures in total or partial weightlessness. You can find out more about this unique form of yoga, the schedule and prices here.
Ongizatea - Luxembourg City
Based at rue de Louvigny in the old town this yoga and Pilates place offers individual or group sessions with a focus on flexibility, muscle strengthening, reduced stress and breathing techniques. You can check out the group class schedules and prices here.
They also host parent-child yoga workshops once a month, a good introduction for kids, and a chance to relax for a parent. The workshops are organised in age groups 3 to 6 years and 6-10 years, once a month on a Tuesday from 15.00 for the younger age group and from 16.30 for the older one.
Mana Yoga - Bonnevoie & Neudorf
With daily classes at all levels and all teachers certified by Yoga Alliance International, you can sign up for Hatha, Power Flow, Yin and Nidra, Vinyasa, Yang Yin and classes for 9-14 year olds, Sophro Yoga, and Slow Flow. You can sign up for regular classes or just take a discovery package. You are asked to bring water and a towel, and if possible, your own mat, and to leave phones or i-watches outside.
Sarah and John - Altrimenti/Kirchberg
'Look up to the sky' at one of husband-and-wife team, Sarah and John's, outdoor yoga sessions in Luxembourg, held at Kyosk Kirchberg, Parc Riedgen in Strassen, and Kinekswiss in the city during the summer for beginners to super-yogis. The pair also offer Sunday Salt Cave yoga, a meditation guided tour of the MUDAM, and Stand-up paddle yoga.
Yoga la Source – Luxembourg City, Strassen, Bereldange, Walferdange
Yoga la Source brings together a number of yoga practitioners offering a variety of yoga classes in Luxembourg City, Walferdange, Strassen and Bereldange. If you want to try out different forms of yoga, this place offers classes in Hatha Ashtanga, Sivananda, Yin, Nidra and classes for the lower back, hormone and pregnancy yoga.
FNELY - across Luxembourg
The National Federation of Luxembourg Yoga Schools (FNELY) has teachers that hold classes in Luxembourgish community and sports centres or town halls across the country. You'll find a list of teachers, the classes they run, locations, times and languages spoken (many teach in English) here.
Yoga Sante
Therapeutic yoga for your back, children's yoga to help with flexibility, posture and calmness, for all levels, from 4 years old, and seasonally-appropriate outdoor yoga, Yoga Sante has a number of workshops and can also provide individual Yogatherapy for joint pain, gastrointestinal problems, respiratory, cardiac, insomnia, depression and hormonal balance.
More Yoga places
We love yoga in Luxembourg has a Facebook page and website giving details of classes and workshops. Ashtanga Yoga has classes in the city.
Katy Mitchell has online classes which you can join via Zoom and the chance to replay them if you've signed up. Lisa van Laarhoven has classes at Mamerhaff on Thursday mornings from 10.00 until 11.00.
Outside the city, check out Yoga Shala in Roeser for drop-in sessions lasting 75 minutes in Hatha, Yin, Ashtanga and Nidra, plus kids' classes. Yoga John Schlammes in Medingen and Yogatime with Christine in Saeul are other options. Le Garage by Grace Luxembourg offers barre, aerial and other yoga classes in Fentange.
Prana Works in Junglinster offers PowerMama Core Restore, yoga and yoga with meditation has beginners and advanced classes.
Pilates
If Pilates is more your form of exercise then Respirit brings together several practioners offering classes on line and in Strassen. It brings together numerous independent practitioners for regular and one-off classes. Pilates is considered a good exercise for people with recurring back issues.
Thrive Studio (formerly Claire Marie Pilates) gets a reader's recommendation, and offers pre- and post-natal pilates at their studio in Hesperange. Whitney from the USA runs Rise Barre Pilates at the Yogaloft studios in Strassen and Limpertsberg, which also offers aerial classes using a silk hammock. There's a Pilates Studio in Luxembourg City, the Flow Studio on rue de Hollerich.
Body Positive Pilates in Strassen offers classic Pilates for 1 hour, or an extended version at 1.5 hours, in group classes and private ones.
Pure Pilates in Roeser has individual and group classes for all levels. You can join group mat classes at Centre "A Bosselesch" in Mondercange, or book duo or private apparatus classes including pre- and post-natal ones at Leudelange, with Stephanie at Time2Pilates.
You can also find more details on parent and baby yoga and massage in this article.
Many gyms and fitness chains in Luxembourg offer yoga and Pilates classes. You can check out a list of gyms in the article below.
