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Yoga for Beginners Course – Feb 2024

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.

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Summer Holidays Timetable 2024

North Shore Yoga Christmas and Summer Timetable

We will be running on a revised holiday class timetable from 23rd of December until 15th January

Closures

  • Saturday 23rd Dec – one class only 9:00am – 10:30am
  • Closed 25th and 26th Dec, 1st and 2nd Jan

TImetable

  • Morning classes – one class only until 15th Jan then returning to regular times
  • Lunch time classes – on hold until Weds 7th Feb
  • Night classes – one only on Thurs evening 18 Jan, 25 Jan, 1 Feb

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What Is So Special About Iyengar Yoga?

Article courtesy of nytimes.com

By TARA PARKER-POPE

This week, the international yoga community said goodbye to a beloved teacher, B.K.S. Iyengar, who died at 95. He is credited with bringing yoga to the Western world and making it accessible to every age and walk of life. To learn more about what makes Iyengar yoga so special to those who practice it, I spoke with Carrie Owerko, a teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Greater New York. She was also ...

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8 Reasons to Practice Iyengar Yoga

Iyengar yoga is one of the more traditional types of yoga, and I believe it is truly one form of yoga that holds the tremendous powers to benefit and heal the body. There are countless reasons to do Iyengar yoga, but here are eight of the top reasons to give this practice a try.

1. Increased Flexibility

You don’t need to be able to touch your toes to do Iyengar, but if you practice it, that may be one side effect you ...

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Healing Lower Back Pain with Iyengar Yoga

Lower back pain is a common occurrence as we age and become less physically active. Over the years at North Shore Yoga we have worked with hundreds of students with various levels of pain and with regular yoga practice combined with specific guidance on postures and yoga poses we seen some amazing outcomes.

Below is a very informative article that was published in the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.;

Abstract
Low back pain is a significant public health problem that has reached ...

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