#Hudson Yards’ Edge yoga by Equinox is an elevated outdoor class

“#Hudson Yards’ Edge yoga by Equinox is an elevated outdoor class”
Yogis can now get bendy 100 stories up in the air as part of a new soaring series of classes offered at the Hudson Yards skyscraper, Edge.
The observation deck — known as the highest outdoor platform in the Western hemisphere — teamed up with luxury fitness club, Equinox, to offer yogis the chance to salute the sun for $50 a class.
The rooftop series, which launched on Sept. 18 and is New York City’s most elevated yoga offering, is open to the public — no Equinox membership required! It’s already sold out of several hourlong sessions so far, and has visitors flooding Instagram with eye-popping photos of 360-degree views of the city.
“It almost felt like we were flying above the city while doing the asanas,” said Verena Erhart. “While I am not a big yogi, it was a very rewarding class with a great instructor and obviously, the view can’t be beat.”
But there was a limit for Erhart, 40, who said a triangular glass floor area on the deck — which displays a dizzying direct view of the space below — was a bit too stomach churning.
“Thankfully, I was quite far from the glass-floor section,” said the Crown Heights resident, who leads vegan food and beer tours and attended the 9 a.m. class on Sept. 23. “I did think to myself that doing a bootcamp or any other high-impact class would feel quite weird [up here].”
Yoga instructor Rika Henry added that in her four years of teaching in the Big Apple, she’s never experienced anything quite like this.
“It’s exhilarating, especially [while] upside down,” she said. “With the city in full view, all I can think about is, ‘I love New York.’ ”
Steve Fortner — who also gave the vinyasa yoga class a try on Wednesday — said watching the sun rise from such great heights was “really breathtaking.”
“I could see a fully round sunrise with a slickly orange-and-pink haze to the background of the building,” the 39-year-old Chelsea resident said. “Relaxing music was playing, and I was fully Zen.”
And it wasn’t just the views that reeled Fortner in. “I really missed group fitness,” he explained.
After COVID-19 hit, gyms and fitness centers were shut down until this month when they were allowed to reopen at 33 percent capacity with strict mask requirements.
Equinox and Edge — which only just opened in March 2020, right before lockdown forced the deck to close a few weeks later — also implemented coronavirus regulations, requiring all yogis to sign a printed health declaration, be temperature-checked at the door and to wear masks at all times, except while socially distanced on their mats.
Upcoming classes are posted every Friday at noon, and yogis can reserve a spot on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are just 35 slots for each class, allowing students to spread out safely on the 1,100 square feet of space on the deck.
Just be sure to namaste away from the ledge.
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