Early Morning Musings

Early Morning Musings For fifty years I have practised yoga: all over the world, in all kinds of weather. In spaces large and small: quiet and noisy, cluttered and uncluttered, clean and not so clean. For fifty years yoga has been a major resource for my body, mind...
Stay in Touch with your Higher Self

Stay in Touch with your Higher Self

Health is the state when the soul is given the key of the body to roam at will. – B.K.S. Iyengar Health, of our loved ones, our self, our world! This is at the forefront of everyone’s mind in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even the deniers one reads about...

Yoga in the Pandemic

Yoga in the Pandemic My husband and I have been isolated at home since mid March, like so many others. I waiver between despair and hope. Living in this time of a pandemic, each day is filled with stories of struggle and hardship. Nonetheless, the trees blossom and...
Teacher Interview: Brandy

Teacher Interview: Brandy

Written by Julie Cohen Iyengar yoga is an essential part of Brandy Baybutt’s daily routine. When Brandy Baybutt was 13, she took at yoga class that she never forgot. She spent the next decade looking for a way to repeat that experience. While undergoing professional...
A Perfect Time

A Perfect Time

A Perfect Time Personal health, public health, our bodies, our breath, our behaviour, how we live our life from moment to moment is at the forefront of our minds for much of the day. These minds are focused on ourselves, our loved ones, our immediate environment, our...
An Interview with Geeta Iyengar

An Interview with Geeta Iyengar

Excerpted from “Yoga: A Journey Within” by Derek Biermann (self-published, 2011). I HAVE HAD A NATURAL INCLINATION toward yoga since my early childhood. From the age of three or four, whenever I saw my father practicing, I would try to imitate him. I...