We are pleased to present a rare opportunity to attend a Hybrid Workshop Special with Father Joe Pereira this May. Father Joe founded the Kripa Foundation and was both a student and a friend of B.K.S. Iyengar. This will be his first visit to Maida Vale, and we are honoured to host him. He will donate his workshop earnings to support his charitable foundation

We are delighted to announce that renowned senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Eyal Shifroni will be joining us in Maida Vale this April for a Hybrid Weekend Special: Props for Yoga. This is a wonderful opportunity to discover how props can be used in innovative, exploratory ways to enrich your study of asanas, providing hours of enjoyable practice. Join us online or in studio.

Richard Ward is one of the most senior and long-standing teachers at Iyengar Yoga London. Here he shares his yoga beginnings and his first meeting with Guruji with us.

In this fascinating talk senior Iyengar yoga teacher and teacher trainer, Sallie Sullivan, looks at how yoga postures have been represented on paper and in stone through the millennia and compares the instructions in ancient text to BKS Iyengar’s Light On Yoga.

Mark Tully (former BBC’s India correspondent) visited Pune in 1999. The result of this visit was a memorable interview with BKS Iyengar and the BBC Radio 4 production “Head to Toe“. The BBC producer, Vanessa Harrison, has kindly given some of the interview transcripts to Dipika. This is a section [...]

During the winter months, when the immune system is compromised, we suggest the following sequence outlined by BKS Iyengar 

Iyengar Yoga & Mental Health By Patrick Marmion Is the mind a figment of the body or the body a figment of the mind? This is the kind of chicken and egg question that keeps me awake at night. An enthusiasm for such questions was partly what led me to [...]

This year marks the 60th anniversary of B.K.S. Iyengar's Light on Yoga, widely regarded as one of the most influential texts in modern yoga. In tribute, we’ve revisited our archives and are highlighting a wonderful piece by the late Beatrice Harthan, whose crucial efforts helped bring Light on Yoga to publication.

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 [...]

When going to a yoga class for the very first time, some students may be surprised that we start the class chanting ‘Om’ three times. Ainhoa Acosta takes a closer look at the practice and its roots.