Classes

Teachers

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  Judith Richards

  Tel: 07761 078251
  Email: yogadham223@gmail.com

  Judith finds that learning yoga is a lifelong process, and brings to her teaching a wealth of knowledge and experience balanced with humour and compassion. She continues to develop her own practice and understanding of yoga and regularly attends workshops, seminars and intensive courses with the world's greatest teachers in Britain and abroad, including BKS Iyengar's parent institute in Pune, India, the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI). Judith obtained her full Senior Intermediate Certificate in 2008

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  Anna Holmes

  Tel: 07528 848474
  Email: annaholmes1@btconnect.com

  Life is about keeping a balance. Yoga is one of the things I enjoy and it is increasingly central to my life. I came across Iyengar yoga classes more than twenty years ago, after experiencing different yoga approaches, and I have studied with Iyengar teachers wherever I have lived in the UK from that time: Newcastle, Lincoln, Cardiff, Bristol and now in London with Judith. After a lifetime involvement with dance and dance teaching I came to yoga teaching quite late – qualifying in 2008. Like many people I spend too many hours working behind a computer each day, and I need my daily yoga practice to counteract this inactivity. Yoga is a part of my life and if gives me pleasure to share my knowledge and enthusiasm with others.

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  Dolores Pinto

  Email: dpinto@uk2.net

  I qualified to teach Iyengar yoga in 1992 after working in the health and fitness industry for some years. I have found yoga to be a valuable tool for change in my life and feel that the skills and experience I have gained will enable me to motivate others to enjoy the physical, emotional and psychological benefits that this ancient discipline can provide.

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  Jane Howard

  Tel: 07768 023213
  Email: janehoward111@hotmail.com

  I passed my Iyengar teacher training in 2002 and have enjoyed teaching ever since. I currently teach 4 regular weekly classes, to which beginners and more experienced practioners are equally welcome. Yoga has something to offer to everybody and for every stage of life, and my classes provide an opportunity to experience the physical and mental benefits that yoga can bring.

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  Janette Browne

  Website: http://www.yogaloka.com

  Email: janette22@tiscali.co.uk

  Janette Browne has practised different forms of yoga for over 28 years. She initially qualified as an exercise to music teacher but found that Yoga was her true path. After many years of searching for a teacher she discovered Iyengar Yoga in London in 1987. Janette was lucky enough to attend classes with Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta, the family that set up the first Iyengar Yoga institute in the UK, also the authors of 'Yoga, The Iyengar Way' Since then she has been a total convert to this method. Janette is now an Iyengar Certificated and Insured teacher to Intermediate level and is offering classes in Southwest London and Surrey. Her presentation skills and a sense of fun make her classes very accessible to those wishing to reduce stress, improve their general health and gain an overall feeling of well being.

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  Jenny Kemp

  Email: vintagehobbs@hotmail.co.uk

  I started yoga in 2003, trying various different styles. I came across Iyengar Yoga in 2004 and I haven't looked back. The discipline and the connection between mind and body, really brings self-awareness to the forefront in my day to day life. With regular practice I have deepened my understanding of the asanas. I qualified as a teacher in 2013 and I am enjoying teaching classes with Yogadham where my journey began.

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  Sharon Kipps

  Tel: 07530 135738
  Email: yoga@easy.com

  Join me for an Iyengar yoga practice that will bring healing to the body and a positive attitude to the mind. I have practised Iyengar yoga for three decades and have been teaching in Surrey for the past ten years. Classes are suitable for all levels, my aim to encourage and maintain freedom of natural movement and to develop a quiet mind and bring balance to all aspects of daily life.

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  Charlotte Palmer

  Email: lottebythesea@yahoo.co.uk

  In my 20's when friends asked why I loved and practiced yoga my answer was twofold. Firstly that I had found a philosophy in which my own understanding of life fitted perfectly and secondly that I wanted to grow old gracefully. At 22 this seemed strange to others now at 44 with two young children, the benefits of the practice are invaluable. I love sharing my experience and have been teaching classes since 1996, over these years I have studied with many different teachers and hold Introductory I &II, and J Intermediate level I teaching certificates.

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  Sarah Donnelly

  Email: sarah@lsd-design.co.uk

  My yoga practice began in earnest in 2002 and I have recently completed my teacher training, qualifying in October 2013. I continue to develop my own practice by regularly attending classes and workshops with senior teachers. Yoga is an important part of my life and helps me make the most of every day by keeping fit, healthy and happy. Now I have qualified to teach it gives me great pleasure to think that I have been given the chance to help others to do the same

Yoga

Yoga is an ancient discipline which promotes mental and physical health and well being. You will learn movements to discover strength, suppleness and poise and to become at ease with your body and yourself. No special abilities are needed to start; many minor tensions, aches and pains will disappear.

The practice of Yoga has been around for about 6,000 years in India. The word 'Yoga' means union. It has the same root as the English word, yoke. The union referred to is the union of one's true self with the universal - in modern language - "to be at one with the world".

Iyengar Yoga

Iyengar yoga is the method of practising yoga developed by Mr BKS Iyengar. It is charactarised by precision and attention to detail. All aspects of yoga are incorporated into the way postures are performed, so that the student comes to his or her practice from a life of treating themselves and others well; in the correct alignment of each pose the natural breathing is enhanced and the student can become absorbed in the action so that a quiet, meditative state of mind is achieved. As in music, the richness, subtlety and depth of understanding which is possible in the study of Iyengar Yoga reveals itself through years of practice.

Yoga as therapy

There is a long tradition in India of using yoga to cure or alleviate illness or injury. The body can be supported in positions which improve blood supply to organs, enhance the actions of nerves and glands, and put bones in the optimum position for healing. If you are unwell or in pain, don’t stop coming, but ask your teacher how to modify your practice to enhance your recovery.

BKS Iyengar 1918 -2014

BKS Iyengar was born in India in 1918. Today his method is the most widely practised in the world. More that fifty countries have national Iyengar Yoga Associations to teach and promote his method and maintain his rigorous standards. IY(UK) is the oldest association in the world and has over a thousand teachers.

BKS Iyengar developed in himself an unsurpassed ability to observe the fine changes that are brought about by movements and the subtle mental and physical effects of each pose and each adjustment in each pose. He showed that the mental and spiritual effects which are the fruits of yoga can be attained by attending to the body and its actions.

Certified teachers of Iyengar yoga are required to maintain contact with Iyengar’s institute in Pune, Maharashtra, India, named after his late wife – the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) – and his senior teachers. They have an understanding of the body and posture work which is unequalled in other schools. All the teachers at Yogadham are fully qualified and certificated teachers of Iyengar Yoga.

Contact

yogadham223@gmail.com