Practise Iyengar yoga with the country’s most experienced teachers.
We’ve been welcoming new students and experienced practitioners of Iyengar yoga since 1984, when B.K.S. Iyengar helped found the centre and taught here. Our world class team is dedicated to your development.
Live and breathe Iyengar yoga
Whatever your age, ability or experience, you’ll be able to learn, gain confidence and progress at Iyengar Yoga London. From our popular six week introduction to Iyengar yoga course through to a wide range of beginner, general, intermediate and specialist classes, our centre lives and breathes authentic Iyengar.
Run as a charity by our members, you’ll find us a short walk from Maida Vale tube station in West London. If you can’t visit in person or prefer practising at home, you can enjoy our wide programme of livestream and video on demand classes. And with our convenient smartphone app, all the info you need is right at your fingertips.
We’ll support your Iyengar yoga journey
Our class programme offers an array of specialist classes, all delivered by expert teachers in a unique and dedicated atmosphere. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry that you’ll have to be able to touch your toes or do the splits: we’ll support you as you steadily develop your body’s capabilities and harmonise them with a calm and focused mind.
A committed team of Iyengar yoga teaching specialists
All our teachers hold the Iyengar Yoga Teachers Certification Mark, so you can be sure of their individual and collective excellence. As well as offering a spectrum of general and specialist classes including yoga for pregnancy, remedial yoga and pranayama, we are committed to teacher training and the ongoing advancement of our own team.
News and articles
News and articles
Abhijata Iyengar visited Iyengar Yoga London for the first time on 3rd May 2024, forty years after her grandfather, BKS Iyengar, opened the first building of the Iyengar Yoga Institute in London, Maida Vale. The current studio was built on the same site as the original institute building funded by donations […]
Below are extracts from a speech given by BKS Iyengar in 1984 at the opening of what was then called the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, known today as Iyengar Yoga London. BKS Iyengar’s words convey how important it was to him to have established a yoga centre in […]