Denise Mehlman - Iyengar Yoga Teacher

✨Workshop with Uday Bhosale✨

📅 Saturday 27th June 2026
📍 Highwood Village Hall, Loves Green, Highwood, Essex, CM1 3QG

We are delighted to welcome Uday Bhosale for a special Iyengar Yoga workshop.

Uday began his Iyengar Yoga journey in the late 1990s and has trained extensively in Pune, India with B.K.S. Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar. With over 30 years of teaching experience, including 15 years at RIMYI, he brings depth, clarity and warmth to his teaching.

His classes are:
✅ Suitable for all levels
✅ Interactive and engaging
✅ Light-hearted and enjoyable
✅ Rooted in Iyengar Yoga tradition

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🕚 Times
11:00am – 2:00pm
☕ Light refreshments
3:00pm – 4:30pm

💷 Fee: £60

📧 Book: Sandra Hitchcock
[email protected]
Bookings by 6th June 2026

Reduced fees are always available in cases of hardship – please enquire.

Places are limited.

The pose looks like rest.
That is why people underestimate it.

Viparita Karani — Legs-Up-the-Wall — is one of the simplest inversions to enter.

No balancing.
No pushing.
No performance.

You come close to the wall, lie down, and let the legs rise.
The wall supports the legs.
The floor supports the back.
The breath begins to soften.

But in Iyengar Yoga, Viparita Karani is not merely “resting with the legs up.”

It is a quiet introduction to the effect of inversion — when the body is supported enough for the eyes, throat, chest, breath, and mind to settle.

In the Senior Citizens Syllabus developed by Geetaji and used at RIMYI, inversions are taught gradually and systematically. Viparita Karani appears there in a supported form, with bent legs on a chair or box.

That tells us something important.
Inversion is not only for the strong, flexible, or advanced student.
Sometimes the most intelligent practice is not the one where you do more.
It is the one where the body stops struggling — and begins to receive.

For beginners:
Start simply. Legs up the wall. No bolster. Five minutes. Quiet breathing.

For experienced students:
Stay longer. Observe the eyes, throat, chest, breath, and mind.

The question is not:
“Am I doing enough?”

The question is:
“What changes when I stop doing so much?”

Practice under proper guidance, especially if you have medical concerns related to blood pressure, the neck, eyes, circulation, or recovery from illness or injury.

Have you practiced Viparita Karani before?

💬 Comment LEGS UP if this is the pose your body needs today.

Outdoor yoga practice 🧘🏼‍♀️☀️🐈‍⬛

RIP Bobby ❤️

Yoga classes
Please message me if you are interested in starting or joining an Iyengar Yoga Class

I have a beginners and improvers class
Monday 6-7pm
General 7.15-8.45pm
Thursday 10-11.15am
High Ongar Village Hall

Also
Tuesday 9.15-10.45am Highwood Village Hall

Tuesday 7-8.15pm

Inversions are powerful tools for resetting the mind and invigorating the body. They influence not only our energy levels, but also support hormonal balance and soothe the nervous system.

Here is an accessible, supported way to experience Salamba Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand) using a bolster and wall ropes. The ropes help you feel light, stable, and secure, while the bolster supports the chest so the heart can open and the breath can flow with ease.

With less effort in the legs and shoulders, the brain can quieten more quickly. The pose becomes less about “holding” and more about being. It is a perfect way to stay longer, observe more, and let the effects deepen.

Expect a gentle refresh, like turning your world upside down in the best possible way. A new perspective, a calmer mind, and a lighter body.

Give it a try, and enjoy the shift.

Namaste

The eye is drawn to the raised leg.
That is where attention goes.
But that is not where the pose is organized.

In Supta Padangusthasana,
the structure begins with the leg on the ground.

The femur of the grounded leg must press
downward and backward—
in the opposite direction of the lifted leg.

This counter-action is what integrates the pose.
Without it, the work becomes isolated.

The raised leg stretches.
The rest of the body remains uninvolved.
The belt does not exist to pull the leg closer.

It exists to reveal
whether both sides of the body are participating.

When the grounded leg is understood,
the need to “reach” disappears.

The pose is no longer something you do—
it becomes something you observe.

💬 Where does your attention go first and what does it leave out?
💬 Comment “BALANCE” if you felt this in your practice.
📍 Come practise with us - Discover the depth hidden in simple poses.

Leo practicing yoga today ⭐️