Corporate Yoga on the Southbank

Working here

The Southbank has some of the oldest office buildings we work in — converted warehouses and period buildings along the river, with low ceilings in places, odd-shaped rooms, the occasional step up or down where an extension was added decades ago. It has more character than a glass tower, but it also means every session gets adapted slightly to the room rather than the room being adapted to the session.

Culture and media organisations make up a good part of the working population here, and the pace is different to the City or the West End — less markets and pitches, more project and broadcast deadlines that build for weeks and then land hard on one date. That changes the kind of pressure people are carrying into a session: less the panic of a call in twenty minutes, more the low hum of a deadline that's been building all month.

Walking at lunchtime is already normal here in a way it isn't everywhere — the river path is right there, and plenty of people are outside for at least part of their break regardless. Tourist foot traffic along the water is a strange contrast to how quiet some of these older office buildings feel a few floors up, and sessions here often sit later in the day than a strict midday slot, worked around production or broadcast schedules that don't run a standard nine to five.