As Peta presciently wrote in 2008 on her first trip to India, “Who are we, if we take away things on the material plane? I’m not Petra, the blonde girl with the blue eyes, if you take away my body. The thing left is the soul, but what is the soul? This is the journey of yoga.”
Peter Thomson: There is a method, and an order, in the asana that needs to be respected.
Pixie Lillas: Always go out the door with some Yoga behind you
Pixie Lillas has been a shining light in the Iyengar Yoga world for almost 40 years. She is well known for her commitment to her practice and her ongoing support for younger teachers through her teacher training and the Iyengar Yoga assessments. She started yoga with three practices a day when she was 26 and […]
Garth McLean: Yoga for MS, BKS says proceed with courage and caution
Life lessons from a melanoma diagnosis
Iyengar yoga teacher Linda Apps talks to movement therapist James Walsh about his melanoma diagnosis. In 2009 my friend James Walsh was diagnosed with cancer – stage three melanoma. As an ex-rugby league player, James knew that when things get difficult you’re not supposed to hide. He tackled his diagnosis head-on, displaying an inspiring strength of […]