Denise Mehlman - Iyengar Yoga Teacher

31/12/2025

The mat is ready and waiting to see what 2026 will bring ! Classes start back from Monday 5th January

31/12/2025

28/12/2025

Yoga retreat Dalyan reunion . A fab day of yoga , good food and good company. Next retreat in September 2026 🧘🏼‍♀️🧘🧘‍♂️

17/12/2025

Reposted due to wrongly attributed quote - thanks Holly for the heads up!

In yesterday’s Q&A with Abhijata Iyengar, she talked about the enormous contribution that her aunt and “big mother”, Geeta Iyengar, had made to yoga. “Without her,” she said, “most of us would not be sitting together in this hall today. She was a phenomenal person.”

Geeta is quoted as saying:

"In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt. If the mind is wandering while practicing, then one is not fully present, and there can be no union. Involvement, interpenetration and insight are the required qualities for the practitioner." ~Geeta Iyengar~

(Beautiful photo by )

07/12/2025

“Yoga is meant for everyone. Nobody is excluded from it. Whether they are men, women or children, elderly or aged people, diseased or disabled, the path of yoga is open to everyone. However, you have to practise according to your physical, mental and spiritual capacity. Yoga is meant to give us a way to discover or rediscover ourselves. It teaches us how to find the great margin of maximum capacity that we have inside us so that we are able to expose ourselves to ourselves and find out what we really are. When I say that you have to adapt according to your capacity, I mean that you have to find out the potentiality, or the potential energy, that you all have inside and how to bring it to the surface in order to utilise it properly. Yoga exposes inner hidden potentialities. In fact, there is nothing in yoga which dictates who has to do what. Yoga is universal in this sense. It is inappropriate to say, “Do and do not do”. We do not say that this is not to be done or that is to be done. To make such differentiation there has to be some cause. Patañjali says that we have to find out what stage we are at and what our level is. We need to know what our energy is, what our po-
tency is, what we can do and so on. As we proceed further, we have to see that we achieve every step gradually.

In other words, there is no barrier, there is no restriction, no demarcation as such. The words Patañjali uses like potentialities or capacities, are certainly very meaningful, since not everyone has the same energy levels, not everyone can put in the same amount of effort. The power to grasp is not the same in everyone. The practitioner has to understand subjectively the potentialities he or she has and try to expose them to the yogic path rather than exploit them.”

~ Geeta Iyengar
(7 Dec 1944 - 16 Dec 2018)

26/11/2025

04/11/2025

🌿 IYCE CELEBRATION WORKSHOP – 30 YEARS! 🌿

📅 Saturday 15th November 2025
📍 Highwood Village Hall, Loves Green, Highwood, CM1 3QG

Join us for the final 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Iyengar Yoga Centre for Essex (IYCE) — a free event open to all practitioners!

✨ The day includes:
🧘‍♂️ Yoga Workshop with Paul Brown – 9:45–11:45
🪷 Talk by Susan Long – 11:45–12:45
💬 Q&A with a panel of Level 3 Teachers
☕ Refreshments – 12:45–14:00

In February 1995, a small group of Iyengar Yoga practitioners met at Susan Long’s home to discuss how to develop Iyengar Yoga in Essex. From that gathering, the Iyengar Yoga Centre for Essex (IYCE) was born — and 30 years later, we’re celebrating how far it’s come!

About Paul Brown:
Paul is a much-loved Level 3 Iyengar Yoga teacher — one of the first to be trained in Essex. Over the years, he’s refined his practice and teaching and now leads several popular classes across the county.

🎟️ This event is FREE, but booking is essential as places are limited.
Bookings will be taken on a first come, first served basis.

If you have a question you’d like to ask our teacher panel, please include it when you book!

Sandra Hitchcock is co-ordinating the bookings for this event. Please return a
completed booking form to her by email at sandra.hitchcock@outlook.com.

03/11/2025

We’re delighted to announce that booking for our 2026 convention is now open.

Our Teacher:
Birjoo Mehta is a senior Iyengar yoga teacher based in Mumbai, India. Birjoo’s parents were Iyengar yoga teachers and encouraged Birjoo and his sisters to practice yoga as they were growing up. As a young man, Birjoo travelled with B.K.S. Iyengar to many international events, demonstrating and teaching. Birjoo currently teaches at Iyengar Yogashraya - Mumbai and is a trustee for the Light on Yoga Research Trust.

Venue
The convention will be held at The Hilton,1 William Street, Glasgow, G3 8HT.

Experience level
The convention is for practitioners with a minimum two years of Iyengar yoga practice.

Book here https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/birjoo-mehta-convention-2026/

03/11/2025

New yoga courses starting this week 🧘🧘🏼‍♀️🧘‍♂️
Spaces available tonight and Thursday morning

14/10/2025

A fabulous week of yoga , laughter, friendships in beautiful Dalyan Grenadine Lodge Hotel