More about yoga
Iyengar Yoga
The Iyengar method of yoga is named after our teacher BKS Iyengar. The teaching helps you focus on correct alignment of the body in poses ensuring you’re working safely, with maximum benefit to your flexibility, strength and wellbeing.
Classes generally start with simple poses and gradually move towards more advanced poses, ending with a period of relaxation and sometimes incorporating breathing techniques.
Props, such as belts and blocks, are sometimes used in class to allow us to work correctly and achieve our full potential.
“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”
- BKS Iyengar
Patanjali and the eight limbs of yoga
Sage Patanjali is known as the father of yoga who wrote the Yoga Sutras in around the 2nd century BC. The 196 sutras (aphorisms) provide wisdom on how to live the most meaningful lives we can. The eight limbs guide us in how to conduct ourselves and how to behave with others, how to use our bodies effectively and feel ‘comfortable in our skin', how to manage the breath, how to gradually turn our attention inwards through concentration and meditation and finally moving towards liberation and bliss (if we are very diligent!).
Artwork by Sue Lovell