Author Archives: Isabel Jones Fielding

Iyengar Yoga: Exchange of Learning 2024

Isabel Jones Fielding: April 2024 https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/teacher-events/exchange-of-learning-day-12/ Yoga For All Ages This is an article Isabel wrote this year for the 2024 EL day to support inclusion and diversity, through understanding the role reasonable adjustment has in teaching Iyengar yoga Please … Continue reading

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The Sound At The End Of The Tunnel

I’m not the first to discover that if we can focus performance away from thenotion of ‘rehearsal’ and more towards ‘spontaneous’ or ‘lived experience’ andbe ‘in the moment’, we are somewhere closer to bringing audiences andperformers together in mutual appreciation. … Continue reading

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aum: the sound of the universe

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shanti mantra: acoustic music

Shanti Mantra: solo voice One amazing and surprising thing about the studio is the gift of an acoustic for chanting – I could never have expected it. Such an unusual shape, and I’m sure no acoustic designer would have come … Continue reading

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iyengar yoga studio west bridgford opens

Iyengar Yoga Studio West Bridgford Opens Welcome to the only dedicated Iyengar Yoga centre in the East Midlands (awarded by the Iyengar Yoga Association UK), directed by Nottinghamshire’s only senior Iyengar teacher, Isabel Jones Fielding, and Geoffrey Fielding an experienced … Continue reading

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round window yoga studio emerges

Our team of Iyengar Yoga intermediate teachers, advanced Iyengar students and teacher trainees celebrate with us, yoga rope wall in progress built by Geoffrey, here with Paul Fitzpatrick after he’s finished the lime plastering of our round window studio. The … Continue reading

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studio 2: the miracle of manual labour & lime

The studio building starts to emerge……. the miracle of manual labour….. Climbing, crawling, burrowing, crouching, cutting, lumping, thumping, barrowing, , hauling, craning, cutting, cracking, sawing, stacking, digging, shovelling, grafting, loading, …………..excavate, underpin, calculate, formulate, levelise, stabalise, ……….. The ground works … Continue reading

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a gap between the buildings

On January 7th the works began: …. derelict garage, now wood workshop to become yoga, wellbeing and art studio! Designed by Geoffrey and I with architect Julian Marsh, and Mike Askey Built by Paul Fitzpatrick, Geoffrey Fielding, Nige Clark, Derek … Continue reading

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yoga and sustainability

Yoga and Sustainability Essentially yoga teaches us to stop thinking in towards ourselves, and start going outwards. And there it is, as we breathe, something comes in and something goes out. In Iyengar yoga, we learn to open our chest … Continue reading

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UN international yoga day celebrations

Iyengar Yoga UK Summer Solstice Convention and International Yoga Day 300 Iyengar Yoga Practitioners gather here in the beautiful South West own of Exeter 21st June 2015 for the first International Yoga day, on the summer solstice: at our Iyengar … Continue reading

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back home in England: nature = prakrity

It’s easy when in England to think of yoga purely as a physical subject, but in India the deep history is there all around you, in the people, in their deity’s and symbols, the animals, the plants, and underneath you … Continue reading

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16th Jan: an Indian train journey

16th Jan Departures By Train Our last meal in the hectic town of Kottayam – Typical and totally delicious. Ask for ‘Meals’ and go between 12 and 2pm. We’re off for our first experience of Indian trains moving to the … Continue reading

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15th Jan: reflections in sound

Well it’s been 10 days since we departed for a 36 hour trip to the backwaters and the Arabian Sea. You know it’s one of those things, it doesn’t seem to be the volume of experience but the degree one … Continue reading

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5th Jan: Kerala backwaters

Geoffrey resting by the Backwaters “Brahmin Kites hover and circle above us, and a cluster of coconuts in various stages of readiness hang precariously above our heads. there is a warm wind in our hair and across our faces, the … Continue reading

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Day 32: Pune Departures

Our Last day and Goodbye to The Institute Today we completed our time with Prashant’s usual morning class. I must write some more about that: We experienced the boundless possibility of the breath and learnt that if ‘prana’ is the … Continue reading

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Day 30 Pune, India: Silent AUM

27th December 2014 You’ll remember that Prashant said the cook was the closest to the path of YOG. Today we were really lucky to go to Talya’s house and learn how to cook. Talya is an ayurvedic cook who lives … Continue reading

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