Why Jennifer Aniston and other celebrity fitness enthusiasts have joined The Class
Founder Taryn Toomey says her ‘music-driven practice of self-study through physical conditioning’, which has followers around the world, is for everyone
The Class by Taryn Toomey is not your average fitness workout
It has been attracting women from around the world – including celebrities such as actresses Naomi Watts and Jennifer Aniston – to transform themselves and continue to “live the practice” outside the fitness studio.
Women and men of all ages experience The Class for different reasons – a great workout, a way to break through a creative block, or to move their body to thoughtfully curated music
Life-changing experiences are just some of the side effects of The Class, she says.
We caught up with its founder, Taryn Toomey, to talk music, her favourite hotels and what it is that’s so different about The Class.
What inspired you to start The Class?
The intensity of life. It was really an organic process, that built slowly over a few years. But, when it first started, it was after my career in fashion.
I did yoga teacher training to deepen my own practice – I remember thinking I would study and then potentially go back to fashion. But I was led to stay the course to The Class by an unsettled feeling – a dull ache in the soul, if you will – that was hard to define.
I kept moving, gathering and exploring. I taught the earliest days of The Class for two years before I even called it anything formal. I wanted the name to allow people to experience in whatever way they needed, without labels or expectations.
How did you develop the workout and know people would have such great results?