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Thank You Iyengar Yoga

Together, let's celebrate the New Year as well as honor the Iyengar lineage. BKS Iyengar was a modern day Yogi but his teachings stemmed directly from Patanjali's Eight Philosophical limbs of Yoga. Sage Patanjali wrote the sutras approximately around 250-500BC. When your Iyengar Yoga teacher asks you to perform a posture with precise alignment they…
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Yoga Mentor Memories

  My memories with Felicity Green began when she was a wise crone at the age of 73. She took me on as her student and I as her mentor. I would study Yoga with her on Lopez island where she lived. I was one of her last students who she mentored through Iyengar assessment. In…
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Yoga Beyond Postures

What life events started you on your path to becoming a yoga teacher? I was teaching dance to children and adults in New York. One day, I decided to teach dance class to adults with MS. I remember how much I enjoyed teaching this class because I felt like I was helping people become more…
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Machines & Courage

My washing machine broke. I thought I would just call someone for the quick expensive fix. But then I remembered my Yoga practice from that morning.  I was working on a difficult pose that challenged me to drop back into a bridge from a shoulderstand. I didn't have the the strength to drop back to the…
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