Hot yoga heads to the high street: Bakery site set to become a Mosman studio
From hot bread to hot yoga. Mosman’s former Rustique bakery is set to become a yoga studio.
By ANNA USHER
Hot yoga is coming to the Mosman high street.
The old Rustique Bakery at Mosman Junction is set to become a boutique hot Pilates and yoga studio, under plans lodged with Mosman Council.
If approved, the studio would run structured hot Pilates, yoga, and meditation classes, operating from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week. Image: Mosman Council.
The application would turn 801 Military Road, on the western side of the strip between Raglan Street and Avenue Road, into SSTATE Studio.
The applicant is Sophie Fox.
The studio would run structured hot Pilates, yoga, and meditation classes, operating from 6am to 8pm, seven days a week, with up to 22 people per class and two staff on-site.
It would also sell high-end yoga apparel, mats and lifestyle accessories from a counter at the front.
e old kitchen and cool rooms would be removed, replaced by new floors, mirrored walls, lockers and a washroom.
The bakery closed in May 2025 and has remained vacant since that time.
If approved, the studio will have two parking spaces. The D.A estimates that about 30 per cent of clients would drive to the studio, or roughly six cars per class, and says nearby public parking can accommodate them.
A survey counted about 340 public spaces in the surrounding streets and car parks, including the Raglan Street car park. Even at the busiest times, it found between 35 and 55 spaces free.
The building is heritage listed. It is one of a row of Federation shops with dwellings above at 787 to 801 Military Road, named in the Mosman planning rules as a “group of 8 shops,” and it sits inside the Military Road heritage conservation area.
During its history, 801 Military Rd has been a refreshment room, greengrocer, bakery and cafe. Image: Mosman Library.
The row first appears in the Sands Directory in 1901.
Back then the same shops housed a greengrocer, a hairdresser, a bookshop, a poulterer and a milliner. One, run by a Mrs E Minty, was a refreshment room.
By 1904 the strip had gained a Pharmacy and a dry cleaner. More than 120 years later, it could now be reborn for hot yoga.
Military Road was part of the earliest residential and military development of Mosman, linked to the harbour’s defence posts, before it became the suburb’s main shopping street.
The heritage listing means the majority of renovation work will take place inside. The only changes to the street are a new timber door and a re-finish of the shopfront glazing.
The studio would be known as “Sstate”.
The colour palette features tones of red, burgundy and natural wood.
The old kitchen and cool rooms would be removed, replaced by new floors, mirrored walls, lockers and a washroom.
A heritage report lodged with the plans states that the studio would have no adverse impact because the fit-out affects only the ground floor, which contains no original heritage fabric.
The application is now with Mosman Council. A decision has not yet been made.
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