Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Frances McKee (The Yoga Extension), has been busy making her own short podcast series on Soundcloud and has featured on a couple of recent podcasts. Here’s where you can find them:

What’s On Your Mind, Frances?

Frances has her own ‘short-cast’ featured on Soundcloud. 5 – 10 minute meditations on yoga and wellness.

In the latest episode, Frances discusses how yoga and healthy living can reduce the emotional symptoms of menopause and menstruation.

Something (Rather Than Nothing)

Frances talks with Ken Volante about discovering Iyengar yoga and the continuing gifts and benefits that the practice of yoga can bring.

Listen To The Whisper

In this episode, Kate Faragher holds the space for Frances to meander through her childhood and love for theatre and music and how she came to meet Eugene Kelly and start the cult band, The Vaselines.

We discover how the band gave way to a career in teaching and how a gentle whisper found her spending more time on the yoga mat before embarking on a career as an Iyengar yoga teacher.

https://listentothewhisper.podbean.com/e/listen-to-the-whisper-frances-mckee

The focus of these three workshops will be on appropriate sequencing of postures in your practice.

The three workshops will cover: seated and hip opening asanas, forward extensions, backward extensions, inversions, restorative asanas and also including pranayama.

These workshops are suitable for students with over 3 years regular practice of Iyengar Yoga.

See Events & Workshops for more details.

The Yoga Extension Summer School: A Retreat Inwards

The Yoga Extension Summer School will be running three IN STUDIO workshops over 4 days with Frances Mckee and Andrew Paine, on 28th, 30th, and 31st July.

General Workshop at The Yoga Extension with Katie Rutherford

The Yoga Extension is delighted to welcome Katie Rutherford from Edinburgh. This is a general level workshop suitable for those who attend General or Intermediate classes or have more than 2 years of Iyengar Yoga experience, and will take place on 28th August.

October Yoga Retreat: Kilgreggan House with Frances Mckee

Frances Mckee is hoping to lead a Yoga retreat on October 22nd – 24th, at the beautifully located Kilgreggan House in Argyll & Bute.

See Events & Workshops for more details on all events.

Iyengar Yoga in Action are running an online workshop to raise funds for Black Minds Matter.

See Events & Workshop for more details.

Greetings from Bellur !!

We are very happy to announce the online yoga sessions by Sri Jawahar Bangera from 15th to 18th July 2021, webcasting from Dr.BKS Iyengar International Yoga center – Bellur.

See Events & Workshops for details.

Iyengar Yoga in Action, a group of Iyengar yoga teachers, have shared details of a week of events at the end of June and invite you to attend to help raise money for the charity Black Minds Matter:

Iyengar Yoga in Action (IYiA) is an established pressure group which aims to act as a model of good practice working alongside IY(UK) in fighting racism and all forms of discrimination within the Iyengar yoga community. During the last nine months, by running a series of workshops, we have raised more than £10,000 for UK charities which have anti-racism at the core of what they do. These workshops have also helped to raise awareness of some of the challenges faced by Black people.

A few weeks ago all IY(UK) teachers were invited to offer to teach a class/workshop to raise money for Black Minds Matter UK whose mission is to connect Black individuals and families with free mental health services: https://www.blackmindsmatteruk.com

CLICK HERE to see the list of face-to-face and/or online events that will be taking place the week beginning 26th June 2021.

If you want to find out more about any of the events and take part please email the teacher directly.

If you cannot participate in any event but would like to donate, follow this link: https://oxfordshire.enthuse.com/pf/iyengar-yoga-in-action-ab2a4

Online yoga sessions by Sri Prashant S Iyengar will be webcasting from 10th to 13th June 2021 from Dr.BKS Iyengar International Yoga center – Bellur.

Frances Mckee and Neil Gillies are running a Level 3 workshop in studio at the Yoga Extension on Sat 5th June.

The IYUK Therapy Committee are presenting a workshop for teachers and trainee teachers entitled Yoga Support for Physical Fatigue on Sat 12th June.

See Events & Workshops for more details.

Although we haven’t been able to benefit from David’s teaching in person since 2019, booking is now open for his Scottish online event, which takes place on 15th-16th May at 14:00-17:00 BST.

See Events & Workshops for more details.

Following on from Gulnaaz’s workshops fairly recently, lots of people expressed their enthusiasm for more of her after the workshops. She has now agreed to teach a weekly class online every week from Thursday 6th May.

See Classes for more details.