In a month I will be heading to Vancouver to attend four days of yoga led by Zubin Zarthoshttimanesh from Mumbai. Every year to correspond with the AGM there is wonderful yoga classes and teachings hosted. This year will be no different.
As a Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor I am part of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Canada.
This allows me to display the certification mark of a certified Iyengar teacher in good standing which requires so many teaching hours per year and training hours per year and sometimes assessment hours.
An instructor of a certain level must also have attended classes in Pune, India at the Institute B.K.S. Iyengar built. So a Senior Iyengar Instructor will have been to the Institute at least 3-4 times at a minimum for 1-2 months at a time. I have been once and although the future is unknown have been accepted to return in early 2017 as the waiting list is long.
All over the world there is many fabulous Iyengar Yoga Instructors. In Canada alone there is such a wealth of knowledge that I could travel from coast to coast and just take in classes from the many dedicated Iyengar instructors.
The AGM sometimes will have Senior Canadian Teachers lead the classes and sometimes teachers from the Institute in Pune have come. All that I have been able to attend have been wonderful!
This year we are lucky to have Zubin, a close student of B.K.S. Iyengar travel to Canada.
Below is a little blurb about Zubin taken from his blog:
My father (who suffers from ankylosing spondylitis) met our Guruji, Yogacharya B K S Iyengar, in 1975. 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 (Bachelor of Arts), yoga became my calling and I committed to teaching it full-time. I have learnt and travelled with my Guruji to participate in International Iyengar yoga conventions in the USA, UK, Spain and France. My teaching commitments have taken me to Rishikesh, Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Canada, U.S., China, Singapore and Korea. In my 15 years of teaching yoga, I have given several lecture-demonstrations and have also authored a health column in Mid-day and now have almost 250 articles to my credit. At present, I teach at my own yoga centre, Iyengar Yogabhyasa, at Matunga in central Mumbai, India. The centre today imparts a yogic education to more than 400 pupils, who seek to benefit from these ancient teachings of uniting body, mind and soul.
But, to make it meaningful I need to bring it into my body and my intelligence.
That takes place in the many hours I spend on my own personal practice and try to relate that into personal knowledge that I can then share in the classes I teach.
So I look forward to the personal journey of seeing some old and new yoga friends and how this new knowledge may be transformed into my intelligence.
Below is a link to his blog and an article her wrote for IYNAUS:
https://iynaus.org/yoga-samachar/fall-2011winter-2012/developing-tolerance-through-yoga
http://yogabhyasa.blogspot.ca/
Namaste.
Pamela Nelson
Certified Iyengar Yoga Instructor
www.plnyoga.BlogSpot.com
plnyogastudio@gmail.com
