Iyengar Yoga Sydney
Yoga Therapy empowers and supports individuals to manage their health issues and develop their own yoga practice. Here’s a post from Therapy student Kerry about her experience in Therapy sessions. I was diagnosed with severe COPD 9 months ago. After a serious case of bronchitis, I was left with 30% lung capacity, very shallow breath […]
At Marrickville Yoga Centre we run two backbend practices per week. Maintaining a regular backbend practice has a hugely beneficial impact on other asanas as through the practice of backbends the body develops enormous strength and resilience.
#1 They make us feel good Yep, they sure do. Backbends are some of the most uplifting asanas, creating a more positive sense of self. There is something about the head being down and the chest being open that changes the physical body and alters the mental perspective. As we go around in daily life so much […]
By Simon Joannou There is something about doing inversions that changes how you feel. If you come to your yoga practice feeling scattered, overwhelmed or anxious, doing Salamba Sirsasana (headstand) and Salamba Sarvangasana (shoulder stand) can help bring you to a state of calm. The reason we as practitioners do inversions every day is because […]
‘Since pain is inevitable, asana is a laboratory in which we discover how to tolerate the pain that cannot be avoided and how to transform the pain that can.’ B.K.S. Iyengar Iyengar yoga teachers will sometimes ask: ‘Is it good pain or bad pain?’ This may seem like an odd question. After all, pain is pain – what’s […]
Welcome to November – it’s warm out and the studio is cool. As we roll on towards the end of the year we’re loving the extended savasanas in class and longer times in cooling poses such as Salamba Sarvangasana -shoulder stand and supported halasana. This month we hear from one of our youngest students at the Centre, […]
Iyengar yoga is interested in perseverance. In yoga asanas, we find ourselves in a state of discomfort and the question is put to us: what are we going to do about it? Pain is an inescapable aspect of life and yoga teaches us to develop skills to bear pain and go through it, rather than […]
Iyengar yoga is interested in integration. Although we work with certain parts of the body in certain asanas, the Iyengar method teaches us that all asanas originate in the core of one’s being. Mr Iyengar says “Practice asanas by creating space in the muscles and even the bones of your body. Practice asanas by creating […]
What is Iyengar yoga? How does Iyengar yoga differ from other types of yoga? Over the next little while we’ll be exploring these questions via our Blog in a Blog Series called “What is Iyengar Yoga” In each post we’ll take one key idea or concept that Iyengar yoga is interested in and explore what […]
FRIENDS OF MARRICKVILLE YOGA Wild flowers. Open windows. Hot streaks of sun across the wooden floorboards. September brings Spring to the studio and other things: a workshop or two, guest teachers, and plenty of excellent yoga classes to help us welcome the warmer weather. This month we hear from Hugh (who attended the recent Mira […]