by Jenny-May While | Dec 6, 2019 | Blog
I went with a friend to find an ayurvedic doctor today, for a consultation and massage. We got lost. When we finally found the address it turned out he had moved. A young woman came out on the front porch of the neighbouring apartment. ‘Are you from the Iyengar...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
Ooh, what a cracker of a class. It was balanced, intriguing, challenging, and delivered with gentle ease and contagious joy. Perhaps it was due to jet-lag, but I found this combination pretty intoxicating. Usually a good sign when you can’t really speak or...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 4, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
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...
by Jenny-May While | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
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...
