Inside Sanctum, the hot new fitness class that will make you cry | Style
Posted On February 19, 2023
There’s a simple rhythmic chant coming from Peckham’s gorgeously crumbling Asylum Chapel. The chanting gets louder as I stoop through the little wicket gate in the high old oak doors: “Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.” The chapel is dark, save for a hot cluster of candles arranged around the baby-faced blond man in microshorts on the raised altar. In the gloom, where congregations once sat under pockmarked memorials, is the black outline of 50 people — and where the man goes, 100 blue lights on Bluetooth headsets follow, still going, “Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.”
Welcome to Sanctum, which sits somewhere between church hall aerobics and a Shaolin monk’s silent disco (listening to the class on headphones helps with focus and introspection, apparently). We are
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