SHOONSH (YOGA CENTER)

Despite ancient ties with India, yoga did not have many followers in Armenia. Created in 2007, the very first yoga centre in the capital called Shoonsh (breathing in Armenian) offers meditation and yoga sessions, medicine and soft gymnastics as well as various massages. Not yet a real craze, but the amateurs are more and more numerous and are even putting themselves in the green, about thirty kilometers north of Yerevan, where the Inn Serenity hotel (www.inserennity.com) in the village of Aghts offers them a retreat facing the Arakadz.