Conventions
IYA (UK) holds conventions every year with different guest teachers from around the world. Its aim is to bring together as many yoga practitioners as possible in to one place, so that the bonds of the Iyengar community are strengthened, old friends are met and new ones made and all can learn together.
We are pleased to announce that the teacher for the 2011 Convention will be Jawahar Bangera, and will be held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on 17, 18 and 19 June.
2010 Convention We were delighted that Zubin Zarthoshtimanesh from Mumbai agreed, with Guruji's blessing, to teach at our Convention in 2010 and to do a two-week tour around the UK and Ireland. Photos of the event by Geoffrey Fielding can be seen here Please click here for an information sheet about the Convention. "I began yoga, quite fortuitously, when very young, thanks largely to my father. My father (who suffers from ankylosing spondylitis) met our Guruji, Yogacharya B.K.S. Iyengar, in 1975 and realised right away that he had met a true healer. Although he was his last resort, Guruji was the first who gave him a glimpse of true health. My father not only stuck on, but urged his family, including me, to take to yoga. This initial introduction helped to set me on the path of yoga and after completing my graduation (BA), yoga became my calling and I committed to teaching it full time. Today, after 17 years of having taught Iyengar yoga and having learnt and travelled with my Guruji to participate in three Iyengar Yoga Conventions, in Michigan (USA), Crystal Palace (UK) and Paris (France), I am aware of the responsibility to help spread the ethos of yoga to our friends, families, communities and society in general. My teaching commitments have taken me to Canada, US, France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Belgium, China and Rishikesh. In 1998 I began writing a health column, 'The Yoga Way', in Sunday Mod0Day once every fortnight. This continued until September 2001 and now I havbe almost 200 articles to my credit. Some of my other articels have also appeared in the Times of India, Inmdian Express, Asian Age, Sunday Review and the Afternoon Despatch & Courier. At present, I teach and run my own yoga centre, Iyengar Yogabhyasa, at Matunga in central Mumbai, which imparts a yogic education to more than 400 students."
Nottingham University
