We all know the physical benefits of yoga. The standing poses strengthen leg muscles, increase suppleness and strength in the spine and tone the cardiovascular system. In forward bends, the sympathetic (fight, flight or freeze)...
Life means to be living. Problems will always be there. When they arise navigate through them with yoga—don’t take a break. - B.K.S. Iyengar
I have worked hard for other things in my life, but this time it was different. ...
SOS … Stay Humble!
A Weekend with Jawahar Bangera
By: Joni Barbagallo
The Kelowna Yoga House was full of nervous chatter. The studio was filled with wide eyed, enthusiastic yoga students anxiously...
The talk of the day among us is how to beat winter blues! I am thinking what a yogi meditating in his matha (hut) in Nepal would suggest? Surya Namaskar, Sun salutation, for sure. Nevertheless Surya Namaskar is a cluster of asanas. To remind...
Not a Journey: a Visit to the RIMYI
by Krisna Zawaduk
For those of us who have made a life of practice and teaching in the Iyengar tradition, it is a feast to return to the source. To spend a month immersed fully in practice...
I'm an active 61-year-old male still trying to act like I'm in my twenties...sound familiar? After my wife Sue and our dog Nikki, my passions are music (the louder the better) and slalom water skiing.
I was introduced to Iyengar...
Iyengar yoga began its search for me when I turned 40 years old. Up until then, I had never tried anything remotely close to yoga. I was a long-time advocate of the aerobic dance movement and I never felt that I would have the mental and physical...
Q: I’m used to flow yoga classes—why are Iyengar Yoga classes so “choppy”?
The flow classes that many people are used to taking are most often based on some version of a sun salutation with other asanas (poses) inserted...
Happiness is a mind state that can be cultivated. New shoes, a tropical holiday and chocolate may help our brain release dopamine, a feel good neurotransmitter, but they don’t really lead to the road to happiness. Just as we...
My plane ticket to India was bought and my apartment in Pune was arranged so why was I so hesitant about this third trip to RIMYI? The obstacles were looming their ugly heads one by one: doubt, confusion, laziness, pain, or more precisely...
