Sep 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
“My body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.” B.K.S. Iyengar The photos above were taken during a quiet moment at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in November 2008. It is where Guruji practised, taught, and inspired all who came to learn the...
Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
True yoga is perfect harmony Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmony of body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true Yoga. …..B.K.S. IYENGAR At the start of the pandemic I wrote an article about the...
Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
We started exploiting nature. Walking outside was taken for granted. Now all that has changed. Abhijata Iyengar
Sep 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sustaining alertness For the duration. Memory is necessary to see whether we are regressing or progressing. If you use memory to live in past experiences alone, it becomes your foe and hinders progress. Memory is a friend when used for progress. B.K.S. IYENGAR Today...
Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Power of Unity Abhijata Iyengar May 2020 In May seven of the teachers from the Iyengar Yoga Centre of Victoria participated in an Intensive taught by Abhijata Iyengar and hosted by the Iyengar Association of America. The title of the seven day, on line course was...
May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Glass Float A Book Review by Leslie Hogya A glass float used to hold Japanese fishing nets in the sea is fragile, but yet, not. Some make their way across the whole Pacific and land on our shores in British Columbia. Glass Float is the appropriate title of the...
May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Early Morning Musings For fifty years I have practised yoga: all over the world, in all kinds of weather. In spaces large and small: quiet and noisy, cluttered and uncluttered, clean and not so clean. For fifty years yoga has been a major resource for my body, mind...
May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Health is the state when the soul is given the key of the body to roam at will. – B.K.S. Iyengar Health, of our loved ones, our self, our world! This is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even the deniers one reads about...
Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Yoga in the Pandemic My husband and I have been isolated at home since mid March, like so many others. I waiver between despair and hope. Living in this time of a pandemic, each day is filled with stories of struggle and hardship. Nonetheless, the trees blossom and...
Apr 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Written by Julie Cohen Iyengar yoga is an essential part of Brandy Baybutt’s daily routine. When Brandy Baybutt was 13, she took at yoga class that she never forgot. She spent the next decade looking for a way to repeat that experience. While undergoing professional...
