Iyengar Yoga Nanaimo

09/01/2025

09/01/2025

08/22/2025

Bring a friend to class. Our gift🫶🏻

08/21/2025

"You don’t need 2 hours a day to practice yoga — but you do need to start."
Most people aren’t yoga teachers.
You have a job. A family. A life.
You sit at a desk. You stand all day. You juggle a thousand things.
Your body and mind carry that load.

🖥 Neck stiff from hours at the computer?
🏠 Tired from managing a home?
🧠 Mental fatigue from endless to-do lists?

Yoga adapts to your life.
It keeps you strong for your profession,
steady for your responsibilities,
and balanced for yourself.

Our forefathers lived in simplicity. We’ve become fast, restless, and distracted.
Yoga brings us back — to quietness, smoothness, and balance.
Even 10–15 minutes a day can change how you feel, think, and live.
🪷 Start today. Start small. Stay consistent.



🌍 https://www.bksiyengaryogashala.com/

08/20/2025

“योगः दीपः — Yoga is the eternal flame.
Guruji’s presence remains in every breath and every āsana.”

08/20/2025

🌸🙏 In Remembrance of Guruji B.K.S. Iyengar 🙏🌸

Today marks the 11th Punyatithi (Anniversary of Passing) of our beloved Guruji, B.K.S. Iyengar.

His tireless dedication, wisdom, and compassion continue to illuminate the path of yoga for countless students around the world. Through his teachings, we are reminded that yoga is not just about postures—it is a way of life, a journey of discipline, awareness, and transformation.

As we bow in gratitude, let us carry his light forward in our practice and daily living.

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

🕉 With reverence and devotion, we honor Guruji today.

08/09/2025

SUMMER YOGA TRANSITIONS TO AUTUMN - https://mailchi.mp/cf19fdc9d5a7/summer-yoga-transitions-to-autumn

08/08/2025

Have you voted for your favourite Yoga Studio in Nanaimo?
Voting Closes August 10 at 11 pm

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND…NANAIMO’S BEST OF THE CITY 2025 Celebrate the spirit of Nanaimo by recognizing the people and businesses that make our community truly outstanding! Nominate your local favourites in the 2025 Best of the City Awards. Submit your nominations July 9 to July 22. The five nomin...

07/23/2025

Friday July 25 we start voting on the Best of Nanaimo. There’s a yoga category. Last year we were # 2.

You know what to do!‼️
The “Best” Yoga Studio category is under Services at the link here:

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND…NANAIMO’S BEST OF THE CITY 2025 Celebrate the spirit of Nanaimo by recognizing the people and businesses that make our community truly outstanding! Nominate your local favourites in the 2025 Best of the City Awards. Submit your nominations July 9 to July 22. The five nomin...

07/10/2025

GURU PURNIMA

“Yoga Is my Guru. Yoga alone taught me Yoga.

Guru is one who is full of knowledge, full of light. Purnima is a full moon day. The Sun throws the light and the Moon receives it. Guru too who is full of knowledge , pours that knowledge for his disciples to receive it. Therefore, this day is called Guru Purnima. It is a very significant full moon day on which to celebrate the Guru-Sisya relationship.

My parampara is traced back to God. This Yoga is presented to us by Patanjali, who is also my Guru. Patanjali says that God is the first, foremost and absolute Guru, unconditioned by time and ever present, who guides us from within. He is also my Guru. This Guru is nearest and dearest to me. He dwells in my heart and speaks to my heart, and I salute him who is within me.

When I look back myself, I feel surprised how the Lord residing within guided me! I never thought that the tree of Yoga would grow like the Banyon tree. I never thought that the hidden knowledge will sprout in such a gigantic manner. I am grateful to my Guru, who sowed the seed of interest in me. The seed survived and grew into a tree giving me a magnanimous fruit.

It was my fate that I had to go to my teacher at Mysore for domestic help. But through fate I was fortunate enough to receive this knowledge. I got converted to Yoga; and the faith in it uplifted me to this level.

In those days I was like a person possessed. I was possessed by Yoga. There was nothing but a single thought ‘Yoga’ in my wakeful, or sleepy or dreamy, or aware or unaware states. I was haunted by Yoga consciously, unconsciously, subconsciously and perhaps even supraconsciously.

Another meaning of Guru is weight or heaviness. It is a weight of knowledge that the Guru puts on you. Guru Purnima Is the day of dedication where the pupil surrenders himself to the Guru. He follows the words and works of the Guru. He works selflessly and gains self-respect.

While practicing or teaching, I am not Iyengar. Something inside kindles me to forget myself and makes me an impersonal entity.

Yoga is the practice and Yoga is the soul. When sadhaka, Sadhna and Sadhya (aim) become one, it is union , it is Yoga. You are Yoga and Yoga is you. Kindle the light of Yoga, so that Yoga enlightens you to become a wise man.

BKS IYENGAR
ASTADALA YOGAMALA VOL: 3
photo credit : RIMYI