Iyengar Yoga (UK)
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Iyengar yoga is for all. Find balance through alignment. Search certified teachers and classes on our website. Official association for the UK & Ireland.
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Joined June 2015
"Open your mind and the body will follow" ~ Abhijata Iyengar Last chance to book online tickets for next weekend! Abhijata will be teaching three full days of in-depth yoga plus Q&A, from 4-6 May at the IY(UK) Convention. Tickets -> https://t.co/FsqKV0aYSq
#iyukconvention2024
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"Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active. Let us be full in whatever posture it is we are doing. Let us be full in whatever we do." ~ BKS Iyengar
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'When you know your body perfectly, the infinite is yours, because your mind is free from the entanglements of the body.' ~ BKS Iyengar #BKSIyengar #yogaeveryday #FridayWisdom
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Walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training seem to be the most effective exercises to ease depression, either alone or alongside established treatments such as psychotherapy and drugs, suggests NEW study @mnoetel
bmj.com
Objective To identify the optimal dose and modality of exercise for treating major depressive disorder, compared with psychotherapy, antidepressants, and control conditions. Design Systematic review...
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Online discussion space for members on yoga and injury, Wednesday 14 Feb, 4-5pm on Zoom. With panellists sharing their experiences: John Aplin, @YogaInMCR Clare Tunstall, @wyevalleyyoga Cori Norton and Jake McLellan Join as a member to book https://t.co/2LB3B8kzl0
#injury #yoga
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Yoga style loved by celebrities and sports stars 'builds strength' using blocks and belts https://t.co/pt3jgHsEfZ
#iyengaryoga #strength
express.co.uk
Iyengar yoga focuses on your body's alignment, timing and balance and often uses props such as blankets, blocks and belts to achieve the correct posture.
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“We all spend far too much time sitting in the office or working from home. This shows that short bouts of yoga...can be done anytime during the day and it has the impact we expected that it can be turned into one of the interventions or reduce the risk of diabetes" @DiabetesUK
🧘 | Short bouts of yoga may help prevent diabetes, new study reveals Three-minute bouts of yoga have been found to significantly lower blood glucose levels and reduce the risk of diabetes, a study from Glasgow Caledonian University has revealed. 🤝 📲 https://t.co/rnLalCXeRL
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India's Rohan Bopanna will become the oldest tennis world number one after reaching the Australian Open doubles semi-finals - helped by his Iyengar yoga practice https://t.co/DqcTqRgmhP
#tennisplayer #iyengaryoga #YogaTherapy
bbc.co.uk
Rohan Bopanna becomes the oldest tennis world number one aged 43 after he and Matthew Ebden reach the Australian Open doubles semi-finals.
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"Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body, to make them intelligent, so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body" ~ BKS Iyengar Happy National Iyengar Yoga Day! #NIYD2024 #iyengaryoga
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Free yoga taster classes for beginners, Saturday 20th January for National Iyengar Yoga Day - locations across the UK and Ireland check the map https://t.co/gzeUXebucP
#yoga #NIYD2024 #ThingsToDo #HealthyChoices
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"The lotus grows in muddy waters, but this flower does not show any trace of it. So we have to live in the world" ~ BKS Iyengar
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Try a free Iyengar yoga beginners taster class on 20 January, National Iyengar Yoga Day - new classes being added to the map daily https://t.co/pukIamoZMn
#yoga #NIYD2024
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"I had tried to start a morning yoga habit for years, but the idea of pulling on my gym kit was putting me off. Now, I go straight from bed to mat and it works perfectly." https://t.co/NjXzwP62gC
#yoga #habits #MotivationMonday
theguardian.com
Want more health and happiness in the year ahead – without having to work too hard? Here are tried and tested tweaks that can lead to big improvements
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“In yoga, three very important things have always to be united in everything: love, knowledge, and action” ~ BKS Iyengar, 14 December 1918 - 20 August 2014 🙏❤️
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New on the blog - Laura Potts on how can we can decarbonise our yoga practice in response to the climate emergency https://t.co/0TJW8UDsIE
#COP28_UAE #Cop28 #ClimateCrisis #yoga
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Through a faithful practice of yoga, a person will develop compassion, patience, sensitivity, contentment, vigour, faith and non-attachment, all of which can be viewed as achievements along the path to discovering the inner being" ~ Dr Geeta S. Iyengar, 7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018
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The aim of yoga, as I see it, is ultimately to reach the inner sanctum of eternal truth, which is a long process of transformation. Small aims produce small gains that can lead a person to the final goal. (2/3)
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"Samadhi (union) is the goal of yoga, according to the theoretical explanation of the sastra, but I think that the real goal is somewhere deeper, where the pure being exists. (1/3)
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We are honoured that Abhijata Iyengar, granddaughter of BKS Iyengar, will be teaching our convention in May in London and online. In-person tickets have sold out in record time, but we still have online tickets available https://t.co/FsqKV0aYSq
#yoga #iyengaryoga #onlineyoga
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“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything” ~ BKS Iyengar
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