Yoga with Manjunaga

Yoga with Manjunaga Manjunaga began his yoga practice in 1998 and draws from his exploration of the practices of yoga an

Manjunaga began his yoga practice in 1998 and draws from his exploration of the practices of yoga and Buddhism to create an embodied practice that addresses the body, heart and mind. His style combines dynamic, flowing movement with stiling postures.

I have been sharing this poem by Elaine Dunstan in my yoga classes this week. A reminder to honour the season of winter ...
09/01/2026

I have been sharing this poem by Elaine Dunstan in my yoga classes this week. A reminder to honour the season of winter and a time to rest and turn inwards.

The gardens have been looking very beautiful in the snow. Just starting back my yoga classes at the Parsonage for 2026....
06/01/2026

The gardens have been looking very beautiful in the snow. Just starting back my yoga classes at the Parsonage for 2026.

It's been 18 years since I started my journey as a yoga teacher. A lot has happened over those years. I feel very fortun...
31/12/2025

It's been 18 years since I started my journey as a yoga teacher. A lot has happened over those years. I feel very fortunate to be able to have a vocation as a yoga teacher. I have recently been going through some of my old yoga flyers. Including one of me looking very fresh faced and a lot younger. Maybe you can spot your yourself or one of my students from over the many years.

Dear Yoga Friends ,New Yoga Classes starting in January MONDAYMixed Level 8 Week Yoga Course6.00-7.00pm 5th January til...
30/12/2025

Dear Yoga Friends ,

New Yoga Classes starting in January

MONDAY
Mixed Level 8 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 5th January till 23rd February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions (3 places left )

MONDAY
Beginners 8 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 5th January till 23rd February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions ( 1 place left )

TUESDAY
Morning Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
9.30-10.30am 6th January till 24th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions (3 places left )

TUESDAY
Restorative & Yin Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 6th January till 24th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions ( 4 places left )

THURSDAY
Beginners 8 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 8th January till 26th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions ( 5 places left )

All courses are held at the Didsbury Parsonage, a beautiful Grade II listed building set in a magical secret garden.

Explore classical yoga postures in a safe and supportive environment where students are encouraged to listen to their own body and go at a pace that is comfortable to them.

The courses will focus on building safe alignment infused by clear anatomical understanding. exploring a mixture of flowing sequences and static poses.

These classes will be run in pre-booked courses of 8 weeks and available to 12 students to allow for intimacy and focused attention.

Everyone is welcome: If you would like to join me you can book a place via the link below. www.manjunaga.com/classes

Warm wishes x
Manjunaga

This week I went to the cinema as part of a festive film season. As the lights went up at the end of the film, I looked ...
24/12/2025

This week I went to the cinema as part of a festive film season. As the lights went up at the end of the film, I looked around to see people wiping tears from their eyes, and likewise during the course of the film I had been moved to tears myself on several occasions. I had gone to watch a film that you can guarantee will be showing on TV or at your local cinema as part of the Christmas celebrations. It is Frank Capra’s classic ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’. Made in 1947 and starring a great cast including James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore, Capra’s film has a Dickensian quality to it. James Stewart plays the role of a selfless man George Bailey who is much loved in the small town of Bedford Falls; it’s a story of redemption that follows his suicidal despair one Christmas night. Clarence the angel appears and shows George how much of a dark and sad place the world would have been without him.

I believe that the reason the film is so loved by so many people is (not only due to Capra’s masterful direction and story-telling) because it illustrates a deeper, fundamental truth about the nature of reality. The truth is: that every life is of value and is important. We can often feel powerless in our lives and insignificant, even isolated and alone. But we are all interconnected to each other and to all of life – the threads that connect us to others and the world are not always easy to see.

A small act of kindness or a harsh word or action can have a profound effect, beyond what we can imagine. We have a responsibility for the world we live in; we are not separate from it but embedded in a network of complex patterns of connection. It can be helpful to stop and reflect on our lives and all we have done through our actions – great and small. The small acts of kindness shown to others bring us into deeper relationship with the world. Think of all the different people in your life and how their lives would be without you, and then you will begin to see the profound ordinary beauty that is your life.

“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?’
Clarence The Angel from ‘It’s A Wonderful Life.

As we head into the festive season I wanted to share my gratitude for your continuing support in attending my yoga class...
24/12/2025

As we head into the festive season I wanted to share my gratitude for your continuing support in attending my yoga classes, workshops and retreats this year. I feel we have created between us community, friendship, warmth and intimacy. I hope you have a safe and relaxing break over the festive season and I look forward to seeing you again in the new year.

The Christmas elves have had another busy week giving out chocolate money to my yoga students. Always a delight to see s...
21/12/2025

The Christmas elves have had another busy week giving out chocolate money to my yoga students. Always a delight to see students faces when they come out of savasana and discover a little gift waiting for them.

Happy Winter Solstice !'Shortest Day' by Susan Cooper.So the Shortest Day came and the year diedAnd everywhere down the ...
21/12/2025

Happy Winter Solstice !

'Shortest Day' by Susan Cooper.

So the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow‐white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.

They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.

And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us ‐ listen!

All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.

And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!

Image Elaine Dunstan

Dear Yoga Friends,⭐️ New Yoga Classes starting in January ⭐️Within our busy lives we often need a breathing space. Time ...
17/12/2025

Dear Yoga Friends,

⭐️ New Yoga Classes starting in January ⭐️

Within our busy lives we often need a breathing space.
Time to pause, reflect and recalibrate. Time to ‘be’.

For many people their regular yoga class offer that calm, safe space. A place to replenish physically, emotionally and spiritually.

I am pleased to share that I have new yoga courses starting in January.

There are some places left on this new block of Yoga Classes.

MONDAY
Mixed Level 8 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 5th January till 23rd February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions

MONDAY
Beginners 8 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 5th January till 23rd February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions

TUESDAY
Morning Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
9.30-10.30am 6th January till 24th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions

TUESDAY
Restorative & Yin Yoga 8 Week Yoga Course
6.00-7.00pm 6th January till 24th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions

THURSDAY
Beginners 8 Week Yoga Course
7.30-8.30pm 8th January till 26th February
The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ
£100/£97 concessions

All courses are held at the Didsbury Parsonage, a beautiful Grade II listed building set in a magical secret garden.

Explore classical yoga postures in a safe and supportive environment where students are encouraged to listen to their own body and go at a pace that is comfortable to them.

The courses will focus on building safe alignment infused by clear anatomical understanding. exploring a mixture of flowing sequences and static poses.

This will enable you to build more strength, flexibility and resilience. We will also learn how to relax into a deepening awareness of our body, breath and heart.

These classes will be run in pre-booked courses of 8 weeks and available to 12 students to allow for intimacy and focused attention.

Everyone is welcome: If you would like to join me you can book a place via the link below. https://www.manjunaga.com/classes

Warm wishes x
Manjunaga

I have been sharing in my classes this week a poem that really captures the landscape of grief. It beautifully explores ...
13/12/2025

I have been sharing in my classes this week a poem that really captures the landscape of grief. It beautifully explores how we can still be in relationship and communication with those we have lost.

A New Kind of Conversation by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

I have no phone receiver to connect me to the other side,
but every day I speak to my beloveds through candle flame.
Every night, I speak to them through the dark before sleep.
I speak to them in the car when I am alone.
I speak to them when I walk beneath stars,
when I walk in the woods, when I walk in the rain.
It is possible to be with someone who is gone.
It is possible to feel what cannot be seen,
to sense what cannot be heard,
to be held by what cannot be touched.
It is possible for love to grow after death.
If there is a secret, it is, perhaps, openness
The way air lets light move through.
The way a window invites in the scent of grass.
The way sand receives the ocean,
then, rearranged, lets it pass.

Image Elaine Dunstan

Poem for the week that I have been sharing in my classes is by David Whyte and is called Faith.FAITHI want to write abou...
05/12/2025

Poem for the week that I have been sharing in my classes is by David Whyte and is called Faith.

FAITH

I want to write about faith,
about the way the moon rises
over cold snow, night after night,

faithful even as it fades from fullness,
slowly becoming that last curving and impossible
sliver of light before the final darkness.

But I have no faith myself,
I refuse it the smallest entry.

Let this then, my small poem,
like a new moon, slender and barely open,
be the first prayer that opens me to faith.

David Whyte

Image Ganapathy Kumar

Poem for the week is by writer and poet Donna Ashworth.
28/11/2025

Poem for the week is by writer and poet Donna Ashworth.

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The Old Parsonage Stenner Lane, Didsbury
Manchester
M202RQ

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7:30pm - 9pm
Tuesday 6pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 6:30pm - 8pm

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Manjunaga has been exploring the insights and practices of yoga, meditation and Buddhism for over 25 years. He draws from his in-depth training and exploration of the practices of yoga and Buddhism to create an embodied practice that addresses the body, heart and mind.

His style of yoga teaching combines dynamic, flowing movement with stilling, calming postures to experience yoga as a deepening awareness of breath, cultivating peace of mind. Manjunaga feels that yoga is an awareness practice, offering us an opportunity to become more fully embodied in our experience; this allows for a greater sensitivity to our emotional and physical well-being, allowing us to open to a natural state of open, relaxed awareness and live a more happy, balanced and meaningful life.