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 …
Articles and Interviews
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. …
Aadil Palkhivala in Vancouver in 1983!
Digging through old boxes from our archives, I recently came across a photo album containing delightful photos of a demonstration carried out in Vancouver, Sunday June 12th 1983 at the …
How to Boost Productivity
An interview with senior Iyengar yoga teacher, Krisna Zawaduk. As we continue with our series of interviews with Iyengar yoga teachers and practitioners, this month, I interview Krisna Zawaduk from …
The Path of Yoga. An Interview with BKS Iyengar
While going through boxes of old files, I came across a Spring 1991 newsletter from the Iyengar Associations of Greater New York and Massachusetts in which they published an interview …
Blast from the Past!
I’ve had some fun perusing past Iyengar Yoga Vancouver Newsletters recently, several of which include reviews of Gabriella Giubilaro’s Vancouver intensives. Since we are hosting Gabriella this month for an …
Interview with Shirley Daventry French
In our latest video in our series of Iyengar Yoga teacher and practitioner interviews, I talk to long time yoga practitioner Shirley Daventry French. Shirley was one of the first …
Teddy Talk: Yoga is more than a Fitness Activity now on YouTube
On Jan 30th our association members were treated to a free yoga philosophy discussion by senior Iyengar yoga teacher, Teddy Hyndman. Teddy’s talk was lively and engaging, filled with philosophical …
Read more Teddy Talk: Yoga is more than a Fitness Activity now on YouTube
Life is about change and adaptation
Not alone navigating the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all must adjust in ways we never believed would be inevitable and necessary. Just one year ago, I was considering …
