Studio Po - Iyengar Yoga

09/21/2025

NEW on YouTube 👇

In this short Iyengar Yoga practice, we explore deceptively simple shoulder work that penetrates deeply. With clear, precise instruction, you’ll learn how to...

09/14/2025

Iyengar Yoga looks structured from the outside. But is it? Stephanie Tencer's new Substack essay explores how that very structure leads to freedom — and teaches us to choose for ourselves.

Awareness. Alignment. Autonomy.

09/07/2025

NEW on YouTube ✨

Standing poses are often celebrated for their benefits to the legs and hips—but they can do so much more. With just a few simple modifications, these familiar asanas can become powerful tools to release tension in the neck, shoulders, and upper back.

This 20-minute Iyengar Yoga practice is designed to create space, ease stiffness, and refresh the upper spine—all while keeping you strong and grounded through the legs.

🎥 Watch here: https://youtu.be/WilH5CTHCX4

💜 If it helps you, please pass along the link to someone else who might also benefit from a little neck-and-shoulder relief.

Iyengar Yoga for neck, shoulders, and upper back tension relief.In this 20-minute standing pose practice, you’ll explore simple modifications to release tigh...

08/24/2025

Sometimes, a small shift facilitates an insightful discovery.
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In this week's new class, we explore Virabhadrasana I & III, focusing on getting into the asanas in different ways, and observing the impact of each variation on strength, stability, and balance.

Enjoy!

Virabhadrasana I and Virabhadrasana III are powerful standing poses! In this Iyengar Yoga practice, we'll build strength, stability, and balance while explor...

08/01/2025

I used to think of yoga as something separate from healing—until I experienced how precise yet holistic, supportive yet strengthening, and how grounding yet uplifting Iyengar Yoga can be.

In my newest Substack article, I share how yoga as therapy can meet you exactly where you are—physically, emotionally, and energetically.

✍️ Read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/stephanietencer/p/iyengar-yoga-therapy-that-meets-you

I’d love to hear if this resonates—or how yoga has met you when you needed it most.

A Personalized Approach to Pain, Fatigue, and Healing

07/21/2025

For this year’s summer retreat, our theme was SANTOSHA | a practice of contentment…and contented we are! Thank you ALL for making our time together so extraordinarily special ❤️✨🙌👌🙏.

Here’s the first photo dump. More to come throughout the week as we sort through all the photos, xo.

07/18/2025

Newly released on Substack! https://stephanietencer.substack.com/p/should-i-practice-iyengar-yoga-during

07/06/2025

Here’s another clip from Steph’s chat with Arundhati Baitmangalkar! What’s YOUR favourite way to use a yoga prop? Let us know in the comments ;)

07/02/2025

This summer, challenge yourself to elevate and refine your yoga practice! Join Nozomi, in-studio, for a very special 4-Day Sādhanā.

Sādhanā is a time-honoured tradition of daily practice that gently strengthens your commitment, not necessarily with intensity, but through rhythm.

It’s a unique opportunity to develop new and refined patterns between you and your mat.

And, this 4-day sādhanā is INCLUDED with your membership!

You are 100% ready for this and we want to see you maximize your PO-tential 💜💚.

With no pressure and consistent presence, it’s quite extraordinary to see what can unfold → Join Nozomi for 4 days of practice!

Details

📅 4 consecutive days starting on Mon. July 14th
🕘 11 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 Studio Po, Toronto
🎁 FREE for Po members
💳 Special Sādhanā Pass available for drop-ins who wish to attend one or more days.
🔗 https://online.studiopoyoga.com/product/86135/about

06/30/2025

It was a joy to chat with the super skilled, eloquent, and very kind Arundhati Baitmangalkar on her Let's Talk Yoga Podcast. Thank you for the invite 🙏💕.

Have a listen if you want to hear me completely geek out about props 😆!

06/22/2025

Just a few photos from yesterday’s celebration… what a lovely coming together of students and teachers from both and ☺️🙏💕

📸 .blissfulyogi

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06/08/2025

Community is the pulse of Iyengar Yoga, and nothing nourishes it more than gathering together in a shared spirit of gratitude.

On Saturday June 21st, together with my dear friend, colleague, & fellow Po Teacher Jane Kruse, we are continuing our annual tradition of co-hosting an event to honour Iyengar Yoga Appreciation Day (IYAD).

IYAD is a national event coordinated by the Iyengar Yoga Association of Canada/Association Canadienne de Yoga Iyengar. Practitioners nationwide gather in their local communities to express their love and appreciation for Iyengar Yoga. This year it falls on International Yoga Day so we get to celebrate both 💜🙏💚.

& I are putting together a program highlighting rare archival footage of the Iyengar family. We hope you can join us! Light refreshments, friendly faces, and good times abound!

📆 Sat. June 21st, 2025
⏰1:30 PM - 4:30 PM (it’s casual, pop in for however long you can)
📍 Iyengar Yoga Annex - https://maps.app.goo.gl/fu837J4rnkedYgTx5