Iyengar Yoga Studio West Bridgford
Isabel Jones Fielding is the only certified Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher based in the area, and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga for more than 22 years.
Geoffrey Fielding is an Intermediate Iyengar Yoga teacher, having taught for more than 12 years, and practised as a registered Osteopath for 30 years 1991 – 2021
Isabel and Geoffrey are both dedicated to the connection with classical yoga from India and the Iyengar Family: and have been taught by Dr Geeta Iyengar at 2 x UK conventions in 2002, 2008, and 2 x Pune India conventions in 2014 and 2018, taking part in Guruji’s 100 year celebrations. Both also spent 3 months in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2020 studying at the RIMYI institute in Pune India, with Prashant, Geeta, Abhijata and Sonita: the Iyengar family.
Our Background
Isabel took her first Iyengar Class 33 years ago, and became a keen Iyengar Yoga student after meeting Margaret Austin one of the UK’s most senior and inspiring Iyengar Yoga teachers. Since 1992 Isabel has travelled up to the North East every year to study an intensive course of yoga with Margaret, who together with Gordon Austin teaches a group of advanced Iyengar students and teachers from all over the UK.
In 2006 Isabel began developing her yoga practice and teaching further with Jayne Orton. With her expert guidance, Isabel overcame long term back and neck injuries, and through rigorous study and self practice Isabel became an Intermediate Leve1 3 teacher in March 2011 and a Senior Teacher in 2019. Isabel continues to study with Jayne, who is also her mentor in training Iyengar teachers.
Isabel also takes an active role in the national Iyengar Yoga association, as chair of the Events Committee 2012 – 2019, and now as the producer of the national Iyengar Yoga Convention for 300 – 1100 Iyengar teachers and students every year. In 2020 / 2021 Isabel pioneered the first and UK’s largest online Iyengar Yoga UK convention attracting 1100 yoga practitioners from all over the world.
Isabel has an extensive background in movement, and worked for 35 years as a professional choreographer, training from the age of 11 as a ballet scholar at the Royal Academy of Dance, gained a performance degree in contemporary dance and music at Bretton Hall, going onto make more than 33 full length touring performances with arts council funding. Her current performance work focuses on site specific and socially engaged work: as composer / singer and soundartist, developing audio description as an artform.
Isabel is the artistic director of arts charity Salamanda Tandem: now in its 34th year, working with a team of performers and artists, to create performance, conduct education, and develop therapeutic practice, across the UK and internationally. Isabel also delivers training programmes on ethics and aesthetics, conducts academic research and has written a variety of publications as a professional composer, singer and director. Yoga forms the foundation stone of Isabel’s life, and practice, and of all charity board members.
Geoffrey has practised Iyengar Yoga as a student for more than 30 years, and as a teacher for 12 years and has held his Intermediate level 1 certificate for 9 years. The precision, clarity and rigour of Iyengar Yoga drew him into training as a teacher, with advanced teacher Jayne Orton. Geoffrey is a very dedicated student, and studies around 270 hours a year in weekly classes and intensives.
Geoffrey also works as a professional photographer and a Salamanda Tandem board member. His photographic work has been featured in many international magazines and publications over the last 20years. Since 2012, he has volunteered for the Iyengar Yoga UK events team as health and safety co-ordinator as well as lead photographer. Photographing the annual convention for the IYN magazine. A large number of his photographs are featured on their new website, 
including his panoramic photographs taken in collaboration with senior Iyengar teacher Linda Purvis for the first international yoga day in 2016, which are used widely on social media by the organisation.
Geoffrey is a qualified and registered Osteopath, and has been working in a group private in Derby since 1991, and runs a private practice in West Bridgford. His interest in the structural and functional integrity of the body first drew him to Iyengar yoga specifically.
In 2015 Geoffrey worked on the design and build of our new studio, and he has built 2 yoga rope walls, one for 4 students and one for 14 students based upon the San Diego Iyengar Yoga Institute design.
