Could a handstand be your path to joy?

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It’s a Friday evening in Paris, and I’m questioning my priorities as I hold a reluctant plank pose on the wooden floor of a dance studio in the 11th arrondissement. Teacher Julien Mauclert is taking a dozen of us through a series of gruelling conditioning exercises to prep for the key stage of his inversion class: the handstand. In fact, he is wearing a T-shirt…