“Iyengar Yoga’s Light in my Life”
Group practice and Conversation
In honor of the Canada-wide Iyengar Yoga Appreciation Day
Friday, June 20, 5pm to 6:30pm
Centre Yoga Aylmer
In April 2024, the Canadian Iyengar Yoga Association (IYAC/ACYI) launched a Canada-wide Iyengar Yoga Appreciation Day where studios across this great land held workshops, information sessions, practices followed by tea, demonstrations, classes, etc., making the Canadian Iyengar Yoga Association known to students and to provide the opportunity for practitioners of Iyengar Yoga to learn more about the roots of their practice. This year, the official day is June 21, on the International Day of Yoga. But Centre Yoga will be celebrating this event on June 20.
Last year we were a large group at Centre Yoga for practice and sharing. We actually practiced mat-to-mat!
This year, on Friday, June 20 from 5pm to 6:30pm
Centre Yoga will host our local event
“Iyengar Yoga’s Light in my Life”
Group practice and Conversation
The invitation to all of you this year is to take a moment to reflect and write a few lines about how Iyengar Yoga has impacted your life in a positive way and send me what you’ve written, so it can be shared as inspiration for others. Or even better, if you are coming to the group gathering, you can read it to us!
You are ALL invited to write something and send it in even if you won’t be participating at the June 20 event at Centre Yoga. Please email me your writings by June 15 at info@centreyogaaylmer.com.
What does it mean to be a member of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Canada, IYAC?
Becoming an IYAC/ACYI member supports each and every Iyengar yoga class offered in Canada, because every single teacher has spent countless hours studying, practising, teaching, and learning with the guidance of a mentor. Teacher education, assessment and certification guidelines come to us from the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in India. They are entirely administered and organized through the selfless service of members of IYAC/ACYI.
Are you aware of all of the free online sessions that were offered to members in 2024? Some of these included:
· Discussions of Patañjāli’s Yoga Sūtras
· Target pose practices
· Āsana classes
· Adaptations and modifications for persons with individual needs
· Prāṇāyāma classes
And it looks like 2025 has gotten off to another year of rich learning opportunities with Introduction to Sanskrit and How to Navigate peri-menopause, menopause and post-menopause, among others.
Visit the IYAC website for more information. And think about joining as a member. Student memberships are only 40$ a year.
IYAC/ACYI membership will not be required to attend our local event on June 20, but it is energetically encouraged!