Mar 25, 2020 | News update, Uncategorized
A Perfect Time Personal health, public health, our bodies, our breath, our behaviour, how we live our life from moment to moment is at the forefront of our minds for much of the day. These minds are focused on ourselves, our loved ones, our immediate environment, our...
Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Excerpted from “Yoga: A Journey Within” by Derek Biermann (self-published, 2011). I HAVE HAD A NATURAL INCLINATION toward yoga since my early childhood. From the age of three or four, whenever I saw my father practicing, I would try to imitate him. I...
Jan 15, 2015 | News update, Uncategorized
Message from Shirley Daventry French This is a time of great sadness at the death of our beloved Guruji. His guidance has inspired our practice of yoga and enriched our lives immeasurably. As we mourn his passing, it is also a time for reflection and gratitude for the...
Sep 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Leslie Hogya Sr. teacher from Victoria B.C As I remember Guruji, B.K.S. Iyengar, every day, I am in awe of his gifts to us. He left such a legacy for us all. There is a lifetime of reading to do, asanas to practice, pranayamas to attempt, philosophy to understand...
Aug 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
From the Introduction in Light on Yoga I am neither ego nor reason, I am neither mind nor thought, I cannot be heard nor cast into words, nor by smell nor sight ever caught: In light and wind I am not found, nor yet in earth and sky – Consciousness and joy...
Jul 18, 2014 | Sutras, Uncategorized
2:33 Vitarkabadhane pratipaksabhavanam Principles that run contrary to yama (attitudes to cultivate – truth, non violence, non stealing, not wasting of energy, not being greedy) and niyama (observances to cultivate in oneself – cleanliness, contentment, austerity,...
