Category Archives: Iyengar Yoga Blog

iyengar yoga studio west bridgford opens

Posted on 09/04/2018 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 14/01/2017 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 18/08/2016 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 25/03/2016 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 01/11/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 21/06/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 24/02/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 04/02/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 15/01/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 05/01/2015 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 31/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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

Posted on 27/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

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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Day 28 Pune: It’s Christmas Day

Posted on 25/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

25th December 2014 Ganesh is the elephant, and is revered as the remover of obstacles. I like that, as there are so many particularly at Christmas I think. Ganesh is the god of beginnings, and is honored at the start … Continue reading →

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Day 27: Christmas Eve and Shopping on Laxmi Rd

Posted on 23/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

It’s Christmas Eve, and this is a photograph Geoffrey took of the shrine right at the top of The Iyengar Memorial Institute. Many narrow metal steps up, to a platform that used to be the highest spot in the area, … Continue reading →

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Day 26 Pune: preparations for christmas?

Posted on 23/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

23rd December 2014 After our usual morning class, and then practice, we’re spending an afternoon at our flat filtering water. No preparations for Christmas other than that! But today’s work in class was on a different kind of preparation, in … Continue reading →

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Day 25 in India: breath aware

Posted on 22/12/2014 by Isabel Jones Fielding

It’s Monday 22nd Dec and the start of our penultimate week here in Pune, studying at the Ramamami Iyengar Yoga Institute. Setting up our equipment for class in the yoga hall Today’s class 7 – 9am, and Saturday’s class 7 … Continue reading →

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