Padmasana Lotus Pose and knee joint forces

Joint Reaction Forces, Padmasana, and the Knees

Article courtesy of Ray and Chris – The Daily Bandha

Yoga poses such as Padmasana can take your knees to the limit of their natural mobility. The idea is to do this without injuring yourself. Knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics can help. While it’s true that an injury can teach you a lot, I’ve been through that and those are hard lessons. For the rest of this incarnation, I’m opting for the easier lessons ...

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FEB
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About Iyengar

Beginners 6 week Starter Course – Feb 2018

Beginners 6 week Starter Course – Feb 2018

This course is a great introduction for those who are just starting Yoga. With individual instruction from an experienced teacher and a focus on learning the starting poses in Iyengar Yoga, this beginners course gives new students an insight and understanding into the basics of Yoga.

In addition you will experience how correct alignment in simple postures have a powerful effect of freeing up tightness and unnecessary pain and tension in the body through various muscles and joints lacking symmetry.

Course runs ...

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JAN
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Yoga Classes

Check out our new studio

Check out our new studio

Exciting news – We have recently moved to a brand new studio space (in the same building)

It is a great open and sunny yoga space with plenty of room for more students, rope walls and a range of yoga props to support the asana’s.

Come and check it out.

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NOV
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Yoga Classes

Christmas Holidays – Yoga Class Timetable 2017/18

Christmas Holidays – Yoga Class Timetable 2017/18

Saturday 23rd Dec – Last day of normal timetable

Sun 24th Dec – Sun 7th Jan – One class daily – suitable for all levels;

  • Sunday 24th Dec 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Monday 25th Xmas day – Closed
  • Tuesday 26th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Wednesday 27th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Thursday 28th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Friday 29th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Saturday 30th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Sunday 31st 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Monday 1st New Year’s Day – Closed
  • Tuesday 2nd 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Wednesday 3rd 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Thursday 4th 9.00 ...
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OCT
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Yoga Classes

Old 70’s video of B K S Iyengar yoga asana practice

In this video, Iyengar, who descendants, students, and admirers fondly called “Guruji,” demonstrates and expresses his purest intentions in the form of asana, with nothing but the floor, space, gravity, and himself as tools.

Many of us weren’t around or into yoga early enough to witness how Guruji himself practiced, so this barebones, unembellished rendering of long, single takes of the yoga guru during his moving meditation is both a privilege and delight to see

Courtesy of www.doyouyoga.com

 

 

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MAY
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About Iyengar, Yoga Demonstrations

Yoga – it’s never too late to reap the benefits

Yoga – it’s never too late to reap the benefits

Yoga: it’s never too late to reap the benefits

Courtesy of Josephine Fairley – www.theguardian.com

Yoga can help fight stiffness, hardening of the arteries, hormonal fluctuations, depression and loss of bone density. And, says Josephine Fairley, you can start at any age,

Looking at the famous photographs of BKS Iyengar – the grey-haired, bendy-bodied yoga guru (born, so we’re told, in 1918) – might have one of two effects. First, to inspire awe at how ...

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DEC
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About Iyengar

Christmas Yoga Timetable 2016/7

Christmas Yoga Timetable 2016/7

Christmas Timetable – North Shore Yoga

Friday 23rd Dec – Last day of normal timetable

Classes are for all levels;

  • Saturday 24th Dec 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Sunday 25th Xmas day – Closed 
  • Monday 26th 9.00 -10.30 am (Eira)
  • Tuesday 27th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Wednesday 28th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Thursday 29th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Friday 30th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Saturday 31st 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Sunday 1st New Year’s Day – Closed
  • Monday 2nd 9.00 -10.30 am (Joy & Neil)
  • Tuesday 3rd 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Wednesday 4th 9.00 -10.30 am
  • Thursday 5th 9.00 -10.30 ...
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5
OCT
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North Shore Yoga – 20th Anniversary Celebrations

North Shore Yoga – 20th Anniversary Celebrations

Over 20 Years in the making.

A hearty congratulation to Joy Sanders for running her successful business – an Iyengar Yoga centre – located on Auckland’s North Shore in Takapuna for a fabulous total of 20 years.
Not only that – she has managed to stay at the same location for the whole duration.

I hope you all know the yoga studio there – a bright, fresh and well equipped studio, managed solely by Joy and full of conscientious Iyengar trained ...

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3
OCT
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Free Yoga Classes – 20 Year Celebrations

Free Yoga Classes – 20 Year Celebrations

As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations, Joy and the team at North Shore Iyengar Yoga are offering Free Yoga Classes for all levels across an entire week. Classes will be suitable for beginners through to more advanced students, it is a chance to experience yoga for the first time or practice with other yoga enthusiasts.

Please indicate below the Free Class you would like to attend and we will confirm subject to availability.

Any further questions contact Joy – 021 ...

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Yoga Classes, Yoga Demonstrations

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