Term 1 finishes on Friday April 11 and in the meantime the Holiday Timetable operates until Term 2 starts again on Saturday April 26. See you then or at one of the following yoga offerings! Saturday April 12 7.30-9.30am – Jo Seymour $30 Personal Practice Programme Monday April 14-18 – Linda Apps Learn to do […]

By Linda Apps “Have you got it?” Her large dark eyes seem to occupy the whole stadium, missing nothing, in spite of her 74 years. “The actions should be melodious and rhythmic,” she says, “like music.” Geeta Iyengar, the second pillar of the Iyengar Yoga community, is teaching backbends at the centenary celebrations for her […]

By Annette van Gent     From time to time, you might have seen The Yoga Nook advertise a type of yoga class called an Iyengar Yoga “led practice”. You might have wondered what this is, how it differs from one of our usual yoga classes, and why you might do this “led practice”. If […]

My journey with yoga began in 1994 when my general practitioner, who was attuned to yoga, gave me good advice and said that yoga would be good for me in terms of breathing, relaxation and overall health.

In 2017 Iyengar Yoga Australia (IYA) protested the scrapping of private health coverage for 16 natural health therapies including yoga, effective from 2019, because we objected to the basis of the decision – namely that there was not enough scientific evidence to show yoga works. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Review of […]

Thanks everyone for coming to our 20th anniversary Christmas Party! It’s lovely to see you here. Some of us have grown up together, and some of us most likely will grow old together! We’ve brought up children, farewelled parents, and been through a pandemic together. Some of you have become teachers and now we are welcoming […]