Iyengar Yoga Sequence: Hip Stability
Iyengar yoga teacher, Andrea Fulkerson, teaches the action of the hips in this 20 minute video. Learn with Andrea as she teaches 5 yoga poses: creative sequencing detailed instructions and …
Articles and Interviews
How to Stay Motivated
In our latest interviews I interview Anita Webster, a dedicated Iyengar yoga practitioner of 25 years. Anita discusses the Iyengar Yoga Vancouver community, her respect for Iyengar yoga teachers, the …
Supporting one another in times of crisis
These past few months have been challenging for all of us around the globe. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc and forced us to reconsider the way we live on this earth …
Sailing with BKS Iyengar
In 1984, the first Iyengar yoga conference was held in California and for the first time, North Americans were exposed to his teachings and expertise. Following the conference, Mr. Iyengar …
How to Create Equity within the Yoga Community
In our latest series of interviews with Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners, I sit down with Siobhan Sloan-Seale to discuss her yoga journey. Siobhan is an Iyengar yoga teacher who …
Learning from the Fluctuations of Consciousness with Leslie Hogya
Referencing B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Life and The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali, Leslie led an interactive conversation about the 5 vrttris, with a focus on smrti (memory) in April. How …
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Navigating Change
As I sit at my desk thinking about yoga and all it has offered me, this question keeps coming into my mind, “haven’t I always been navigating some sort of …
Taking your Practice Home
This article first appeared in our association’s newsletter published January 2003. New Year’s Resolution: will rise at 5:30 every morning and do pranayama, sitting, and asana practice before carrying on …
How to Connect Cultures Without Language
Interview with Iyengar yoga teacher, Linda Shevloff. Linda Shevloff shares her yoga journey in Canada and Hong Kong from mentoring with Shirley Daventry-French, meeting BKS Iyengar for the first time …
The Gift of Props
When I first began my yoga life, I owned a mat. Period. I would move through the poses one after another, staying briefly before moving on. For me, yoga was …
Photos of the 1990 Iyengar Yoga Conference
My never ending quest of cleaning and organizing our archival material led me to discover a vast amount of photos of BKS Iyengar in Edmonton in 1990 at the Canadian …
Canadian Iyengar Yoga Conference with BKS Iyengar
The following is the complete speech delivered by Shirley Daventry-French at the opening of the 1990 Canadian Iyengar Yoga Conference at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, July 2-6 1990. …
