BKS Iyengar Yoga Institute of Southern Africa: Kwazulu-Natal Region

09/08/2020

09/08/2020

Absolutely awesome...

Starting Tomorrow for 3 heaven sent days.. 2 hour long Zoom classes from the Source ###

03/07/2020

What is Guru Purnima....

The brightest full moon night of the year, guru pUrNimA is a night of enormous significance across many spiritual traditions. In this video, let's explore th...

16/06/2020

“International Yoga Day - Our Responsibilities” by Shri Prashant S. Iyengar!

The Ministry of AYUSH presents a series of Yoga Discourses by renowned Yoga Gurus as a prelude to the International Day of Yoga 2020.

Join the renowned YOGA Guru and the Director of Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI), Shri Prashant S. Iyengar and transform your life with holistic Yoga practices.

RIMYI, known for the first recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award.

Tuesday, 16th June 2020
Time: 6:30 PM - 7: 00 PM

Link to the event:
https://tinyurl.com/ybtjxbqx

11/06/2020

10/06/2020

10/06/2020

Book your place ASAP....

Exciting event for IYD2020
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09/06/2020

Lovely to listen to Guruji.
One of the interesting facts Guruji makes is the reference to the use of props...that if you look at Narasimha, he is bound with a rope or cloth under his arms as a prop. The oldest known artworks of Narasimha have been found dating back to the 2nd Century.

Yogacharya BKS Iyengar's last interview excerpts.He talks on historical journey of Yoga, his life experiences, why Yoga was lost to common man and how it was...

26/11/2019

2 days of Art and great nutrition this weekend.
Gentle Yoga to start the morning with Iyengar certified teacher, Kaz Wilson.

31/10/2019

Thank you to all who have liked our page so we can share the happenings of Iyengar Yoga in KZN and South Africa.
We have reached 900 on this page...
Please share on to others who may be interested so they can also like our page
Thank you, Kaz Wilson

14/10/2019

Dont forget to book your place for this wonderful Yoga filled weekend with David Jacob's and Jurgen Meusel ...early bird special available until 31st October...

13/09/2019

Coming to KZN!
Book your place now...
David and Jűrgen are one of Africa's most senior Iyengar teaching teams...
This workshop is open to all practitioners of yoga regardless of level or style.
See flyer for further details

10/09/2019

Coming up this weekend, a few places available. Note members discounts available too...

11/07/2019

Our dear Padma...forever in our hearts

21/06/2019

Happy International Day of Yoga to all! Here's the link to watch the documentary valid for the next 48 hours:

https://vimeo.com/306405772
Password: yogadocu2019

Enjoy!

A tribute documentary put together from 100+ hours of crowdsourced material from more than 500 participants from 20 countries in 10 languages, this 75 minute documentary…

19/02/2019

Cape Town dates for Raya Uma Datta......

18/02/2019

Raya Uma Datta in South Africa! Dates and costs for Johannesburg ....

30/01/2019

Save the date....

29/01/2019

20/01/2019

Forever inspiring, Dr Geetha S. Iyengar...A great video clip to watch of A Medical class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PLTHwCyPDY

In 2009, we spent several months in at Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute, in Pune. We were granted permission to make this short documentary to showca...

20/01/2019

We look forward to getting together for our annual AGM today.
A reminder to those who have said they are coming: Yoga 9-10h30am Eaglesview, and AGM 11am Conscious Cafe at The Castle on Main

17/12/2018

Geeta Iyengar 7.12.1944 – 16.12.2018
Posted by Kathleen Powell on Monday December 17th, 2018 at 6:47am
Dr Geeta S. Iyengar (1944 – 2018)

In her father’s light, not shadow!

Dr Geeta S. Iyengar, daughter of Yogacharya B K S Iyengar, and the seniormost teacher in the Iyengar community passed away today morning. She had completed 74 years on December 7.
Sister to her five siblings but a mother figure to the whole community of Iyengar yoga practitioners which now spans 59 countries across the world, Geetaji lived a simple life which embodied all the principles of being a yogini.
She chose to lead a life of brahmacharya (celibacy) and devoted her life to yogic pursuits.
As the director of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI), Pune, together with her father B K S Iyengar and her brother Prashant, she was instrumental in moulding and teaching generations of yoga aspirants from their Yoga-shala in Shivajinagar, Pune. Last year, the prestigious Prime Minister’s Award for the best Yoga Institute in India was awarded to RIMYI. This, in a way, acknowledged her six-decades-long years of commitment to teaching yoga and mentoring generations of yoga teachers which has resulted in the Iyengar yoga certificate becoming the gold standard in the field.

The eldest child of Ramamani and Yoga guru B K S Iyengar, Geetaji was born near Tumkur, her maternal place but did her schooling in Pune, where her father had settled down as a yoga teacher.
She was inspired to take up yoga early and never looked back. An early attack of nephritis at age 9 had left her with only half a kidney and ever since, she became a keen student of yoga.
Decades later, when asked at a Q & A, whether she felt she was in her father’s shadow, she had wittily said, “I consider myself fortunate to be in my father’s light, not his shadow.”

In 2012, Geetaji conducted a mega class in Portland, Oregon, US, which has become a benchmark for the congruence between Yoga, medicine and Ayurveda. In this convention, she gave the principles of how to hone the art of observation and application of yogasanas in the treatment and alleviation of various diseases. She repeatedly stressed how yogasanas have transformative power and this comes with the alignment of the outer, inner and innermost bodies (sthula, sukshma and karana shariras) with the bahya, antar-anga and antar-atma sadhanas .

When people talk of alignment, they only point to external points of reference like arms and legs and muscles and joints. But here was someone who showed us how to align a life to the teachings of a Guru, how to align a life to the learnings of an art, how to align a life to the responsibilities of a practitioner (sadhaka), a teacher and a pillar of the yoga community.
Though a teacher in her own right, she always remained a shishya to her father and the subject of yoga till the end. Even at the recently concluded centenary celebrations of Yogacharya B K S Iyengar, where more than 1,200 students from 53 countries participated in a ten-day yogasana and pranayama session, she taught tirelessly for six hours a day exhorting students to experience the intelligence in their bodies first-hand and not depend on second-hand experiences. This insistence on self-learning and self-awareness in the body, mind, consciousness and breath became her defining ethic.
She authored the classic, ‘Yoga – A Gem For Women’ which is now translated into several languages. Her continuous exploration resulted in the volumes, Preliminary Course and Intermediate Course which became a beginner-level learner’s text guides to her father’s definitive Light On Yoga.
Her six-decades-long commitment to the subject of yoga has been something which will now inspire generations of practitioners.

This obituary was written by Parvez Irani, the man who hand writes our certificates so beautifully at RIMYI.

17/12/2018

BKS Iyengar @100: Centenary of father of modern yoga 14 December 2018
Gurujis legacy will always live on....
A lovely article below, follow this link...

https://www.deccanherald.com/exclusives/BKS-Iyengar-father-modern-yoga-708015.html

BKS Iyengar's system took Yoga to the masses