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About our Iyengar Yoga Teachers
All of our teachers are experienced, Iyengar yoga teachers. To qualify as an Iyengar yoga teacher requires many years of study and stringent examination. We also hand-pick teachers who we think are particularly good and the feedback we receive from our customers backs up our choices. We are confident you that you will be leaving us in good spirits, relaxed and rejuvenated.
Ros Bell
Ros Bell started attending yoga classes in Oxford, then visited India in 1977 to study with B.K.S. Iyengar. Ever since then, she has studied and taught Iyengar yoga, and has made return visits to India to study with the Iyengars.
She holds a Senior Intermediate Level 3 certificate and is one of the Uk's most experienced Iyengar yoga teacher trainers and assessors.
As well as running regular classes in London, Ros teaches at workshops and courses in the UK and overseas. She has published a popular book, Simple Yoga Techniques. Despite having taught for over thirty years, Ros loves teaching beginners as much as advanced students or yoga teachers.
Her classes reflect her knowledgeable and creative approach, with plenty of attention paid to the different needs of individuals. Besides teaching yoga, she works in management education and training, specialising in creativity and innovation.
Brenda Booth
Brenda Booth is a senior level Iyengar yoga teacher based in Kent. She has been teaching for 30 years and has been to Pune in India many times since her first visit in 1982. She is very dedicated to Mr Iyengar and his teachings; her classes are always carefully constructed and of the highest standard but there is also room for a little light heartedness.
As a teacher Brenda has humour coupled with the ability to demand and draw out her students’ potential. She has amazing depth of knowledge of the postures, remedial work, sequencing and the philosophy of yoga, making her classes fun and challenging.
Sheila Haswell
Sheila has been teaching Iyengar Yoga for over 26 years. During that time she has visited the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune on four occasions and has attended classes with BKS Iyengar in London and Paris.
Following in the footsteps of her mother, Lilian Biggs, Sheila is a senior teacher with a wealth of knowledge to give. A member of the IYA(UK) Assessment and Teacher Training Committee, she has responsibility for organising all the introductory teaching assessments in the UK.
Sheila co-owns a Yoga Centre in High Wycombe – the Sarva Iyengar Yoga Institute; and, when not teaching there, is in great demand teaching around the country. She has taught many Summer Schools and workshops both by herself and with her mother. Sheila’s compassionate teaching style, depth of understanding and encouraging approach make her yoga events a not-to-be-missed experience.
Ally Hill
Ally founded the Sarva Iyengar Yoga Institute with Sheila Haswell in 2002. She passed her Introductory Teachers Certificate in 2004 and is currently working towards her Intermediate Junior certificate. Ally has also studied with the Iyengar family in Pune, India.
Ally is Sheila’s assistant at yoga events, as well as the pregnancy class and with some of the Teacher Training which are held at their centre. She will be there to help Sheila with the classes.
Barbara Hicks
I've been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1976 so this year marks my 34rd year of teaching! I feel very fortunate to have started my practice so young - it certainly has sustained me in the many adventures of my life.
I completed my Junior Intermediate certificate last year (level 3), which enables me to teach a much broader range of asanas and work therapeutically with students. I teach in South London and also in Central London at the City Lit Institute. I have been to Pune twice to study with Mr. Iyengar in 1978 and 1981 (when I was pregnant with my first child!), and now that my family demands are less, I am hoping to return soon.
I have taught more than 30 yoga weeks/weekend courses and particularly enjoy teaching students on a daily basis. It gives both teacher and student the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of asana and pranayama practice.
A yoga holiday is not just R&R (Rest & Recreation), but R&R&R (Rest, Recreation and Recharging!) so that we return to our everyday lives ready to go!
Brenda Hobdell
I have been practising Iyengar Yoga for 25 years and I have been teaching for 20 years. I gained my introductory certificate in 1995 and am qualified to intermediate level 3. I am a regular visitor to the Ramamani Iyengar Yoga memorial Institute in Pune, India, where I am taught by Geeta and Prashant Iyengar. My most recent visit being in 2007 where I had the privilege of spending 5 months training with the Iyengars.
I am qualified to teach women through their pregnancy and have a lot of experience in this field. I have written articles in magazines on yoga and pregnancy.I am involved in teaching people who take part in professional sports, both individual and team sports. Yoga can greatly enhance a sports persons’ performance, both physically and mentally.
I think my students see me as a teacher who likes them to work hard but at the same time, have a fun time whilst doing it.
Find out more about Brenda on her
website.
Aidan Love
I have been practicing Iyengar Yoga since 1997. It was the first thing I had found that offered me tangible relief from a back problem I’d had since adolescence. I was also drawn to the incredible depth of understanding of the human body and mind contained within Iyengar’s teachings.
I passed my introductory level teaching certificate in 2006 and have taught various classes in London since. In early 2009 I moved to Istanbul and have been teaching regular classes at Istanbul's premiere yoga centre; 'Yogasala'. I hope to pass on to my students some of the fascinating things I have learned during the study of yoga and help them benefit from the amazing Iyengar system.
Hannah Lovegrove
Hannah Lovegrove teaches Iyengar Yoga classes in West Dorset, where she has lived and worked for 20 years. Following a strong family tradition (her sister Rachel is also an Iyengar Yoga teacher) she started practising in her early twenties and now, thirty years later, has a wealth of experience and passion to share with her students.Hannah is particularly interested in the long-term benefits of yoga practice, its ability to protect and heal the body, to improve steadiness and stability, and its capacity to develop awareness and intelligence on many levels. She encourages her students to weave yoga into their daily lives and so enhance their enjoyment and sense of well-being. Having run yoga holidays in Portugal, she is delighted to be teaching in Turkey for the first time. For more information about Hannah, please visit her
website
Amparo Rodriguez
Amparo was born in Bogota Colombia and came to Britain in 1974. She started practicing and studying Iyengar Yoga in the 1980s and found this method the most beneficial as it emphasises the proper alignment in Yoga asanas.
She has studied with Guruji Iyengar and his daughter Geeta in India, Germany, Russia and England. Amparo holds Teaching Certificate Junior Intermediate Level 3, which includes remedial and pregnancy teaching.
She also runs a teachers training in Mexico and is an assessor there and in England. Amparo also offers individual, private and corporate Iyengar yoga classes.
Ursula Schoonraad
Ursula has been a devoted Iyengar Yoga practitioner for over 30 years and a teacher for 25. She is technically very good at delivering the subtle nuances of the asanas and getting to the essence of the practice. Her strengths are her eye for precision and alignment, posture adjustment and creativity in finding ways to improve and overcome difficulties or stiffness. Her commitment to developing her own practice and her teaching skills, means she has a wealth of knowledge to impart. Together with her warm personality, enthusiasm and sense of humour, this makes her classes an enjoyable learning experience.
She achieved the Junior Intermediate 3 certificate in 1990 and has attended courses at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune on five occasions. In 2005 Ursula was a founding partner of the Iyengar Yoga Studio in Tooting and teaches a range of classes & workshops there.
Ursula has been a very popular teacher of European Yoga holidays for over 10 years and these holidays are a great opportunity to explore and deepen ones own practice with someone who is a most inspirational teacher.
Karen Dunne
Karen is a complete yoga enthusiast and an Iyengar devotee. This comes over in her teaching and in the way she shares the knowledge she has gained from studying regularly with some of the most senior teachers in the UK. Karen is committed to her own professional development and is currently preparing for Level 2 of the Junior Intermediate Iyengar Certificate.
In 2008 she spent a month at the Iyengar Institute in Pune, India and also participated in an intensive week with Geeta Iyengar in London in 2009.
Karen has a bubbly personality and your reward for working in her classes is to leave feeling well stretched, mentally quiet and having some of her passion for the subject rub off on you.
Leo Sharma
I discovered Yoga whilst exploring India in 1994. Since then I have returned to India and attended intensive courses in Pune taught by both Mr Iyengar and Geeta Iyengar. I have been teaching Iyengar yoga for the past seven years in South London.
Through my practice of yoga I became interested in holistic medicine, in particular in the body’s ability to self heal. This led me initially into a study of Ayurvedic Medicine and then into Osteopathy, which I am currently studying.
I particularly enjoy teaching restorative yoga, which focuses on undoing the body and withdrawing the senses, creating the environment for the mind to become calm.
Yoga through asana is the means by which the body develops physical health, mental calmness, emotional stability and spiritual contentment, thus creating the environment for the body to self heal on multidimensional levels.
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