Yoga with Claire

🌿 Iyengar yoga workshop with Lydia Holmes & Edgar Stringer🌿

Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th April 2026
Highwood Village Hall, Loves Green, Highwood, CM1 3QG

Edgar and Lydia are both Level 3 Senior Teachers from Wiltshire. We all really enjoyed their weekend in March 2025 and we are thrilled that they are returning to Essex again this year.

We would love you to join us for an informative and challenging weekend of yoga. The weekend is open to all general and intermediate level practitioners. 🧘‍♀️🧘‍♂️

Class times:
Saturday: 11:00–14:00 & 15:00–16:30
Sunday: 09:00–12:00 & 13:00–14:30
(There will be an hour break for lunch; light snacks and drinks will be provided.) 🍎☕

Fees:
💷 Weekend: £110
💷 Single day: £65

Booking:
Sandra Hitchcock is coordinating bookings for this event. Please return your completed booking form to her by email at [email protected] ✉️

Kent Iyengar Yoga happily announces a collaboration with Deborah Wilkinson, a Level 3 teacher whose practice reaches far beyond the mat. Grab your ticket soon, as there are only half of them left -and we haven’t even announced it publicly yet!
Here’s the link. 👇🏻

https://www.kentiyengaryoga.co.uk/events/exchange-of-learning-day-1-t7lza-byfzb-ph2zw

Curious about Iyengar yoga?
Not sure if it’s for you?
That’s exactly why we run an annual FREE taster class.
Learn what makes Iyengar yoga different.
Experience precise teaching and safe alignment.
Ask questions without pressure.
No commitment, no cost
Just come and feel it for yourself.
Saturday Jan 17th at 10.30 with Claire Hanrahan, our level 3 certified Iyengar teacher.
Book your place on 07798 725 557.

Restorative yoga - tomorrow 6.45pm!

One hour of complete relaxation, to quieten the mind & restore yourself 🥰💕🧘‍♀️

Message me if you want to join - 2 spaces available ….

Join me for a free yoga class to celebrate National Iyengar Yoga Day! I will be teaching a free beginner-friendly class to explore the benefits of Iyengar Yoga.

Saturday 17 January
10.30-11.30am
Saints Green Place, Brook Hill, North End CM6 3PQ

Suitable for all ages and levels of flexibility. Iyengar yoga builds strength, stability and peace of mind.

For more information or to book your place, contact me at [email protected] or 07798 725 557 and leave me a message....

Happy New Year yogi's!
Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2026 and looking forward to seeing you all back on your mats next week - normal timetable resumes from Monday 5th January...

Reposted due to wrongly attributed quote - thanks Holly for the heads up!

In yesterday’s Q&A with Abhijata Iyengar, she talked about the enormous contribution that her aunt and “big mother”, Geeta Iyengar, had made to yoga. “Without her,” she said, “most of us would not be sitting together in this hall today. She was a phenomenal person.”

Geeta is quoted as saying:

"In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. If the mind is wandering while practicing, then one is not fully present, and there can be no union. Involvement, interpenetration and insight are the required qualities for the practitioner." ~Geeta Iyengar~

(Beautiful photo by )

Remembering Guruji on his birthday with deep gratitude 🙏🏼🪔 (B.K.S. Iyengar 14.12.1918 - 20.08.2014)

My new love of backbend practice 🤸‍♀️💕 working towards Kapotasana #iyengarmethod #iyengaryogateacher

“Yoga is meant for everyone. Nobody is excluded from it. Whether they are men, women or children, elderly or aged people, diseased or disabled, the path of yoga is open to everyone. However, you have to practise according to your physical, mental and spiritual capacity. Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are. When I say that you have to adapt according to your capacity, I mean that you have to find out the potentiality, or the potential energy, that you all have inside and how to bring it to the surface in order to utilise it properly. Yoga exposes inner hidden potentialities. In fact, there is nothing in yoga which dictates who has to do what. Yoga is universal in this sense. It is inappropriate to say, “Do and do not do”. We do not say that this is not to be done or that is to be done. To make such differentiation there has to be some cause. Patañjali says that we have to find out what stage we are at and what our level is. We need to know what our energy is, what our po-
tency is, what we can do and so on. As we proceed further, we have to see that we achieve every step gradually.

In other words, there is no barrier, there is no restriction, no demarcation as such. The words Patañjali uses like potentialities or capacities, are certainly very meaningful, since not everyone has the same energy levels, not everyone can put in the same amount of effort. The power to grasp is not the same in everyone. The practitioner has to understand subjectively the potentialities he or she has and try to expose them to the yogic path rather than exploit them.”

~ Geeta Iyengar
(7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018)