Krissy Jones wants your workout to feel like the inside of a Cindy Crawford home video—and you’re Cindy Crawford. Jones is the founder of Sky Ting, a New York City yoga studio loved and attended by creative types, fashion folks, and celebrities like Kaia Gerber, with celebrated instructors like Lulu Soni and Beth Cooke. Sky Ting’s new location opens this week in Noho at 324 Lafayette St., marking a new chapter for the business as the first space Jones designed independently since buying out her co-founders a year and a half ago.
The momentous launch deserved an equally memorable video to get the word out, and Jones immediately thought of Crawford’s ’90s aerobics tapes as inspiration. She linked up with photographer and friend Cass Bird to direct, and in the final video, launching today, the supermodel's energy most certainly comes through. A group of instructors, dancers, and models, hair down and bodysuited, spin and gyrate and wind themselves in and out of the space. The video came together improvisationally and was “last-minute, collaborative, and freestyle,” said Krissy. “It was really sweet because we're all friends, and there are a lot of moments in there that just happened really beautifully and unplanned.”
The Noho space, where they shot the video mid-renovation, is what Krissy calls “a comprehensive wellness destination.” With more square footage than previous locations and an airy, intentional layout, Sky Ting will expand its typical class offerings to include dance classes, kundalini yoga, meditation, and breathwork. The upgraded space features two large yoga rooms, infrared saunas, a plunge pool, and a treatment room currently decked out with OSEA skincare products. The studio bathrooms even offer Chanel and Costa Brazil beauty and body products. A roster of Jones’ favorite wellness practitioners—massage therapists, acupuncturists, facialists like the ones from OSEA, and more—will rotate through the space.
“This was the first time that I really, from tip to tail, got to design the whole thing myself,” says Jones of the new location, which she describes as “an elevated version of Sky Ting.” She worked in tandem with designer Courtney Applebaum, whose work is simple, earthy, and expansive, to create a collaborative space. “I want to give my community a sense of ease, openness, and connection when they're in the studio.”
The space is intended to have “a sporty, sexy, ’80s feel” with glass bricks, glossy black accents, brown carpet, and a fully mirrored spa lounge. The Hinoki wood bathroom features backlit shoji screen walls, so the whole room glows. What Krissy didn’t want was something austere. “It’s not Instagram white-wash rooms. We’re funky; we’re playing.”
Sky Ting prides itself on the playfulness of its workouts. “We're not trying to create super-yogis that can stay in handstand forever,” says Jones. “It's really practical wellness tips and tricks and tools to have a functioning body, and a clean, clear mind so that you can do whatever it is in the world you love to do better. It’s not like yoga to get good at yoga. It's yoga to really participate in your own wellbeing.”
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