The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote a while ago for Australian Yoga Life, to celebrate Mr Iyengar’s centenary in 2018. You can download the entire article here. “In 1918, 100 years ago, the deadly Spanish flu pandemic swept across the world, killing 30 million people, 17 million of them in India. […]
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Yoga, deep time and deep humanity
Last time I went camping I was reading Deep Time Dreaming by Billy Griffiths, in which he explains that deep time is beyond human comprehension. Surrounded by the stillness of the land, I got to thinking – perhaps the deep beauty of nature and the deep humanity of life itself are also beyond the capacity of […]
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Balance, Courage and Caution practicing yoga with MS
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As Peta presciently wrote in 2008 on her first trip to India, “Who are we, if we take away things on the material plane? How much time do we spend to experience ourselves? I’m not Petra, the blonde girl with the blue eyes, if you take away my body. The thing left is the soul, but what is the soul? This is the journey of yoga.”
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Iyengar Yoga helps Geelong Cats’ Harry Taylor deal with AFL pressure
The end of another AFL season sees the winners celebrating and the losers re-grouping to make an assault on the summit once again next year. In their comparatively short careers elite athletes like AFL players face the challenges of life writ large – success, failure, injury. To simply make it to an elite team is […]
Alert like a Warrior – Reflections on Gulnaaz Dashti workshop
Gulnaaz Dashti is an Indian teacher who studied and taught with the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Pune, India. She now teaches outside the Institute in Pune and travels the world teaching workshops. Earlier this year she taught a workshop at the Marrickville Yoga Centre. Tiffany Lee-Shoy is a teacher trainee […]
Pixie Lillas: Always go out the door with some Yoga behind you
Pixie Lillas has been a shining light in the Iyengar Yoga world for almost 40 years. She is well known for her commitment to her practice and her ongoing support for younger teachers through her teacher training and the Iyengar Yoga assessments. She started yoga with three practices a day when she was 26 and […]
Garth McLean: Yoga for MS, BKS says proceed with courage and caution
How I learned to love Jathara Parivartanasana
Surprisingly to me, this is my favourite pose of the moment, jathara parivartanasana. Jathar means abdomen in Sanskrit and parivartanasnana is from parivartti, meaning turning around. As I prepared for my recent JI3 assessment I struggled with teaching this pose – there didn’t seem to be much to it! And it’s a struggle to do until you […]