Yoga In Manchester

Classes are back now!
Monday Reddish 7.30pm general level
Wednesday online intermediate 5:30-7pm
Thursday Chorlton 7:30pm general level.

I'm back from the amazing wonderful Yogatula in Limoux. Beautiful countryside, rivers, homemade home grown apricot tart. Bastille Day fireworks, allotments, bicycles, friends. What a week 🌞 💕.

I know I'm away doing yoga but there's so much joy seeing these beautiful cats and dogs. A beautiful puppy at the market and a restaurant cat keeping things under control. ❤️

Hi everyone, just a quick reminder that I'm on a busman's holiday this week so there's no classes with me. You could go to MDIY this weekend where they'll be a fabulous teacher from India called Sushama Chitale teaching a variety of workshops for all levels of students.
Meanwhile, meet, flat cat, postman cat, pavement cat and market dogs (just for good measure). 😻

After a swollen bitten leg this week I really enjoyed this with Elena Grigorenko
The women's health class at MDIY has one week left to go before Summer. I thoroughly recommend you spoil yourself and go. Tuesday 10:15am - 11:45am

Hi everyone, just to remind you this is the last week of classes for one week. There's no yoga with me from 10th July until 18th July.
I've had a fabulous weekend away doing yoga and a bit of a pilgrimage to see Charles Tunnicliffe's paintings, drawings and sketch pads. I stayed in Llangefni then onto Rhoscolyn for yoga. Anglesey is a very special space! Here's a few pics. Oh and a good friend I made on the campsite 😺

I love this. My copy is falling to bits, often held together with a hair band if I need to take it anywhere. I love that it has scribbles from when my nieces and nephews were young and loved looking at the 'bendy man'. I love that I've made notes over 33 years of props I needed/don't need. And more importantly I love that about a half of it is still waiting for notes 😅. Another lifetime maybe!

We'd Love to Hear Your Light on Yoga Story

As part of our 60 Years of Light on Yoga project, we're celebrating the book that has inspired generations of Iyengar Yoga practitioners and teachers around the world.

But this project isn't just about the history of the book - it's about the people whose lives it has touched.

We'd love to hear your memories and experiences:

✨ When did you first encounter Light on Yoga?
✨ Did you learn from the photographs, the sequences, or the detailed instructions?
✨ How did the book influence your own practice?
✨ Has it shaped the way you teach?
✨ Do you have a favourite pose, passage, or memory connected with it?

Whether you've been practising for sixty years or six months, every story helps build a picture of the book's lasting impact.

Share your memories in the comments below, or if you have a longer story, photographs, or would be interested in contributing to the project, we'd love to hear from you. Please email [email protected].

Together, let's celebrate not only an extraordinary book, but the community it has helped to build over the past 60 years.

📚 We can't wait to read your stories.

Hi everyone, for the first time I've my life I've cancelled yoga for football! I hope it's worth it. ⚽
The Chorlton beer festival has cancelled my Thursday night class too. So unless you can make the Manchester and District Iyengar Yoga express class tomorrow at 12 noon, I'll see you next week! For now, here's some courgette flower twins

Loads of this and this. It's like a lockdown out there. It's so quiet. ☀️ 🌞 🥵

Oh back benders on a hot day how I love thee. These are the ones I was telling the Monday class about last night. I've had the most amazingly restorative class with Elena Grigorenko today. A quite ethereal class. 😇

What a beautiful weekend away in Hay on Wye at Wye Valley Yoga. It's becoming a bit of a Summer Solstice ritual. I love it. It's one of my favourite places on earth. 🐇 🐰 Especially with baby rabbits everywhere this year!