How can you know the breather from the breath?

Yoga as an art form is at once interpretive and creative, scripted and improvised, individual and collaborative. The asanas are an expression and an exposition of an internal act of devotion, moment to moment. Each is born, lives and dies. Each tells its story of...

Pune Class Notes- Prashant (participated) 3.12.19

These are notes from a class I participated in at RIMYI during December 2019, which might be of interest to Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners. 3.12.19 Prashant  The parts in italics are paraphrased, and necessarily represent my subjective understanding of what...

Pune Class Notes- Gulnaaz (observed) 2.12.19

These are notes from a class I’ve observed at RIMYI during December 2019, which might be of interest to Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners. This was a lively, dynamic Intermediate level asana class. Gulnaaz is funny! She has a laugh with her students. She...

Agency and accuracy

I have been really looking forward to observing the medical classes here. I live too far away from a medical class to be able to assist regularly in one, and have had to rely on workshop training. It’s quite a different thing to see the hall full of regular...

Pune Class Notes- Prashant (participated) 2.12.19

These are notes from a class I’ve participated in at RIMYI during December 2019, which might be of interest to Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners. 2.12.19 Prashant  This is my second session with Prashant, and my first asana class.  The parts in italics are...

Pune Class Notes- Children (observed) 1.12.19

These are notes that may be of interest to Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners- they are from a class that I observed at RIMYI December 2019. Sunday 1.12.19. Children  My first class at the institute! I had heard a lot about the ‘Pune’ style of...

Twenty Years Later

1999, Cardigan Road Community Centre, Leeds. An A5 poster shows a black and white photo of a woman in Ustrasana, a long plait of hair dangling down to her feet. It is a pleasing image of dynamic movement, balance, stillness. I go to a class. There are lots of footless...

Yoga for the Young

                  The solid marble yoga hall at Bellur Iyengar Yoga Center is gentled to pink by the sunlight rising through its open doors. Another dawn in the birth-blace of BKS Iyengar, where the legacy of his life’s...

HYC Selected in Top 30 Yoga studios nationwide!

Well, we were selected! Thanks to ALL of our amazing students who bring so much joy and dedication to their practice. It’s great to have a specially designed studio, all the props, the right shorts, and to have the work we do recognised with a gold award badge....

We’ve Been Shortlisted!

We’ve been contacted by one of those organisations that publishes the ‘top 50…’ in the UK. They are doing Yoga Studios, and Hereford Yoga Centre has cropped up in their initial survey. They asked me to forward a paragraph about why I think our...