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On a cobbled stretch of Camden Passage, on a mild London morning, Kerry Spark arrives with a smile and a familiarity that takes me by surprise. We hug, say hello, and fall into conversation almost immediately. It’s only the second time I’m meeting him, but he remembers more than I expect — that I came to one of his classes last June, that I was there with John, and that it was in Brentford, at the back of a bar where he was hosting an event, called Sip & Sound Healing by the

The first thing you notice about Emmanuel Stroobant is that he does not look like a man who cooks for a living. When he rises to greet me in the kitchen of his Sixth Avenue home, he is wearing a fitted black V-neck T-shirt and loose linen trousers. His hair is cropped short, flecked with silver. His body is compact and muscular, the body of a former boxer — broad shoulders, thick in the torso, built more for a ring than a restaurant. There is a roughness to him, a raw masculi

Victor Chau is the kind of yoga teacher other yoga teachers look up to. Tall, lean, and tanned, he meets me as the lift opens to his floor in an apartment in Orchard Road. His hair is neatly combed, posture relaxed but upright. He greets me with the practised warmth of someone used to being at the front of a room. It’s 3pm in the afternoon, and his home is quiet, spacious, filled with natural light. During the interview, we sit outside on his balcony that overlooks the back o