Summer Classes
21 Jun - 21 Sep
Welcome. All times Pacific. Orange-shade is In-Person.
Learning
Monday
9-10.45
Intermediate +
Online
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Tuesday
7-8am
Led Practice
Online
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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6.30-7.30pm
Fundamentals
Wesbrook In-Person
Sign Up - 9/9-10/21
Wednesday
8-9.30am
Intermediate
Online
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Wesbrook In-Person
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Thursday
7-8am
Led Practice
Online
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10-11.30am
Intermediate
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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1:30-3:30pm
Int/Adv
Mt Pleasant In-Person
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Friday
Saturday
10-11.30am
Intermediate +
Online
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Sunday
Monthly
Yoga Sutras
Aug 8, Sep 12
Continuing Studies
Sep 14
Individual Instruction
Need help with a specific need, a particular limitation, a challenge, or goal; to learn adaptive approaches, specific actions, and use of props to help bring relief from common ailments or injury; to energize or evolve your home practice. Contact me.
Summer Series
Continuing Studies
Sep 14
Online Sundays
10am-12:30pm (Pacific)
Learn, study, explore, and expand your inner practice horizons with confidence. Share your experience among friends in yoga. This monthly class is a launch and sustaining platform for continuous practice and study of the eight “petals” of astanga yoga in the Iyengar tradition. Sessions include asana themes, threads, and approaches to more complex asana; preparatory and primary pranayama; and yoga philosophy discussion with practical application to your life and practice.
For September - With inspiration from B.K.S. Iyengar’s insights in AstaDala YogaMala, we will explore the relationship of kriya yoga, and the principles of yama and niyama.
Preparation - Upon request, reading and study assignments will be provided upon registration to support your own theory and practice exploration prior to each session.
Recommendations: a curiosity to learn and three years of study with a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT).
Yoga Sutra Study Group
Aug 8, Sep 12
Online Fridays
3-4pm (Pacific)
Community donation optional — 100% of donations go to a fund to support financially challenged students continue learning of Iyengar Yoga.
These informal gatherings to explore the Yoga Sutras will look to the gems of practical wisdom in B.K.S. Iyengar's translation and commentary, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Other publications by the Iyengars and translations are sometimes woven in. Each gathering will offer a mix of lecture, inquiry, basic pronunciation, chanting, perplexity, and clarity.
For September, we will examine the yamas and niyamas through the lens of Yoga Sutra 2.1, and chant the 2nd pada. If you wish to prepare, please review YS 2.30, 32, read the commentary for 35-45, and study 2.1. Inspired by the article we will study for Continuing Studies this month, we will contemplate what it would mean to practice these first two petals of yoga on the level of tapas, svādhyāya, and Īśvara praņidhāna.
Or, just come and enjoy the community of others. Learn and simply “be" without worrying about being prepared or having done anything at all special besides living your life and showing up.
Community donation optional — Register for free to receive the meeting link. Email me for donation options.
“Our sadhana consists of a process of dynamic and progressive efforts, through the various aspects of asthanga yoga, until we reach samadhi, the effortless state which is the mark of a stable intelligence (sthitaprajna)."
- Geeta S. Iyengar
Intensives
Annual Iyengar Yoga Intensive
TBD
Learn in community with yoga friends. We begin Thursday afternoon and finish Sunday morning. Full days include asana, pranayama, yoga sutras, discussion, and ample time for questions, sharing and discussion.
Thursday (Pacific Time)
4-6pm Philosophy / Asana / Pranayama
Friday - Saturday
7-7:30am Led Pranayama
9-11:30am Asana
4-6pm Philosophy / Asana / Pranayama
Sunday
7-7:30am Led Pranayama
9-11:30am Asana
Minimum THREE years of CONSISTENT experience in the Iyengar method recommended.
Workshops
INTERLINKED AND INTERWOVEN
B.K.S. Iyengar writes, “All the eight petals of yoga are interlinked and interwoven. If one petal is explicit others are implicit and that is how yoga works.” With this insight as inspiration, we will study the interconnectedness of āsana, prānāyāma, and dhārana. Mornings, we will explore different modes of practice in foundational āsanas, deeper threads to more complex āsanas, and how taking the mind inside opens the consciousness. Afternoons will include philosophy discussion, āsana, and prānāyāma.
Thursday
3-6pm Practice, Theory, Teaching - a session for CIYTs and aspiring CIYTs to explore the interrelated and interwoven nature of practice, theory, and teaching.
Friday
9-11:30am Asana
2-3pm Teacher Gathering (Optional)
3:30-6pm Philosophy, Asana/Pranayama
Saturday
9-11:30am Asana
2-3pm Community Gathering (Optional)
3:30-6pm Philosophy, Asana/Pranayama
Sunday
9-11:30am Asana
Iyengar Yoga Association Upper Midwest
In-Person
Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN
Oct 16-19
Shakti Yoga Studio
In-Person
Osaka
Tokyo
Jan 10-12
INSPIRATION & INSIGHTS FOR THE NEW YEAR
Over the three days of this course, we will explore key concepts of Iyengar Yoga and the evolution of the practice from the stage of learning to maturity. We will work not only with the body, but also the breath, the senses, and the mind to better understand ourselves and how to keep our personal practice flourishing throughout the year. Expect new insights for Asana and Pranayama, and inspiration toward a joyful and meaningful 2026.
Saturday - Monday
9.30am-12pm - Asana
1.30—4.30pm - Philosophy, Asana, and Pranayama
LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE
Wednesday - Friday
Mornings - General Class
Afternoons - Intermediate Topics
Saturday - Sunday
Workshop in 4 sessions:
Action, Sensation, Perception, Reflection
Yoga Tree Daikanyama
In-Person
Tokyo
Jan 14-18
Iyengar Yoga Association Southwest
In-Person
Scottsdale
Mar 12-15
TOPIC TBD
Iyengar Yoga South Bay
In-Person
Campbell, CA
Sep 24-27
B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Association of Vancouver
In-Person
Vancouver, BC
February 20-22
EQUANIMITY
Schedule TBD
TOPIC TBD