Closing a north London yoga centre where regulars include Kate Moss and Gwyneth Paltrow would be like shutting a hospital, campaigners claimed today.
Triyoga in Primrose Hill is facing the axe to make way for offices if a planning application being considered by Camden council is approved.
Nadia Narain, the centre’s instructor, said: “It would be like shutting University College Hospital. At UCH they give you medicine, here we give you a different type of medicine, not just physically beneficial but emotionally healing too. Yoga is well known to prevent health problems.”
PKS Architects is named on the 2012 planning application, along with landlord Durley Investments. Sean Sohrabkhani, practice manager at PSK, said all plans for the Triyoga building were “confidential” but added: “This decision was made by a board at Camden council. So, if Triyoga does close, that’s nothing to do with us.”
Jonathan Sattin, who set up Triyoga in 2000, said: “Yoga is about accepting change and that is why, while we would rather stay here, we are happy to take any suitable place in Primrose Hill. But we must stay in the area because Primrose Hill benefits hugely from us.”
