A neighborhood café makes room for a small yoga class
Zaza Café Studio in Montpellier combines a coffee counter with a teaching room for groups of up to eight.
At Zaza Café Studio in Montpellier, joining a class is only one reason to come through the door. The new address pairs a movement studio with a neighborhood café.
A meeting place around the timetable
A November 9 L’Essentiel Montpellier profile introduces founder Émilie Arcos, a former press officer who trained in yoga in 2024. The report describes a team of around ten teachers and classes in yoga, Pilates and sculpt, with a maximum of eight participants.
The business’s own website confirms the combined café-and-studio format and its Faubourg-du-Courreau location. It also describes the café as laptop-friendly on weekdays, giving the space a use beyond the class schedule.
Arcos tells the newspaper that she wants people to feel able to visit for a coffee or some work before considering a class. That is the founder’s intention, rather than evidence that the format has already widened participation.
The practical idea is a familiar threshold: a public-facing counter beside a small teaching room. A person can get to know the place before deciding whether its classes fit. The café and the studio share an address without requiring every visitor to become a student.
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