Iyengar Yoga with Lisa Wylde

01/02/2026

Imbolc is an ancient Celtic festival, marking the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It’s a threshold time — the first real stirring of life after winter — when the light is returning but nothing is in full bloom yet. Traditionally, Imbolc is associated with Brigid (later Saint Brigid), a goddess and saint of healing, fertility, poetry, fire, and the hearth. She represents quiet strength, protection, and the kind of renewal that happens through care rather than force. It’s a season that invites ahimsa — non-harm — in how we nourish our bodies, our land, and our inner worlds. Slow foods, gentle rituals, patience. Trusting life to unfold in its own time.

Filmed in Hibbits Wood, where the forest is already answering that call. These woods hold a calm, watchful presence, especially when roe deer appear, moving softly through the trees like keepers of the in-between. Snowdrops don’t rush spring; they simply signal that it’s possible. A reminder that tenderness is not weakness, it’s how life survives winter.

31/01/2026

🌟🧘‍♀️STUDENT OF THE MONTH🧘‍♀️🌟
🌟January 2026 Student of the month is……. Christine Fleckney!

Our first Student of the Month for 2026 is Christine. Christine has been a student of mine for many years, and it has been a quiet privilege to witness her relationship with yoga unfold. In the early days, she approached certain poses with understandable caution; particularly shoulder stand and headstand, carrying a belief that her neck was fragile as it was once injured. What stands out to me most is not just that she now practises these poses happily and competently, but how she arrived there. Through a shared passion for women’s fitness and strength, Christine has gradually built the muscular intelligence to support her natural flexibility. In doing so, she has found a deeper sense of her own power - even if she doesn’t always recognise it herself....

Christine is also deeply creative. She sings, she paints, and she moves through the world with the sensitivity and imagination of someone rich in air and water elements. What I see yoga offering her is a beautiful counterbalance: a grounding, earthy steadiness that supports and anchors her creativity rather than diminishing it. This is very much the gift of Iyengar yoga - not just increasing strength or flexibility, but bringing the elements of a person into harmony.

Over the years, I’ve watched Christine become more confident, more embodied, and more at ease in her own strength. Her practice is a reminder that power doesn’t always announce itself loudly; sometimes it grows patiently, pose by pose, until one day you realise it has been there all along.

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❓Tell us a little about yourself…………………
🧘‍♀️I’m Christine Fleckney, 61, I am an artist and musician, although I am an accountant in my day job. I have recently moved from Tintinhull to Yeovil so am now enjoying a more vibrant town life and leaving behind the mud of the countryside, although we have a lot of greenery and nature nearby to keep me happy.

❓How long have you been practicing yoga?……………
🧘‍♀️My very first experience with yoga was as a child when my mum took me to a yoga class in St Albans where I grew up. It was an amazing experience to relax deeply and breathe in a relaxed way. I started doing astanga yoga regularly in my 20's. Then with various house moves got to try different yogas, Hatha and now Iyengar.

❓What made you start yoga?
🧘‍♀️I don’t know if it was that very early experience as a child that planted the yoga seed, but I was always quite anxious and suffered with asthma as a child so was interested in natural ways to relax. I also believe the body is self-healing as long as it can find the right internal conditions ie relaxed state.

❓How has practicing yoga benefitted your life?
🧘‍♀️Yoga gives me discipline. The commitment to the regular class as well as my own practice at least once a week make me feel great, and I can feel so different after a practice as if everything's ok again, and I am breathing differently and thinking and feeling differently, would like to feel like that more often. It also means I meet and get to hang out with some lovely fellow yogis every Thursday

❓What’s your favourite pose?
🧘‍♀️I do like the forward bends onto a bolster at the moment as they help my hip to relax, and supta badakanasana I find really restful.

❓And your favourite prop?
🧘‍♀️Love the bolster as it's so comforting to rest onto, and also for the more dynamic poses I love the stick as I ike many others find myself slouched at a desk for much of my week so appreciate the feedback the stick gives to feel what is actually straight

❓What makes you keep practicing?
🧘‍♀️I think what keeps me coming back is the feeling of travelling on a journey with yoga, always more to learn, and I find it an indispensable antidote to a busy world. No matter how tired I am I always feel as if my body and mind have found equilibrium afterwards.

❓Anything else you’d like to add?
🧘‍♀️I think what is wonderful about Iyengar yoga and Lisa's class in particular is how it is such a sustainable form of yoga. And so I hope to be practicing for the rest of my life. 😊

Thank you Christine for sharing your yoga journey with us ❤🙏

13/01/2026

All this week we celebrate National Iyengar Yoga Day (Most classes on Saturday 17th January). We celebrate the teachers who guide us, the students who inquire, and the lineage that continues to evolve dedicated to sharing the depth, precision and transformative potential of Iyengar Yoga with our wider community.

Iyengar Yoga teaches us to move with attention, refine through alignment and steady the mind through action. Whether you’re stepping onto the mat for the first time or have been practising for decades, the invitation is the same: practice with sincerity, curiosity and care.

Find a class, try a taster session, or reconnect with your practice this week and experience how Iyengar Yoga is accessible to everyone.

07/01/2026

A great way to celebrate National Iyengar Yoga Day! 🙏

As part of National Iyengar Yoga Day, we’re delighted to be offering a free online class with senior teacher Bobby Clennell, hosted by .
• Saturday 17 January
• 10–11am
• Ideal for beginners or those returning to practice

Plus, free taster classes are happening all week with Iyengar Yoga teachers across the UK and Ireland. Search a free class on our website.

Come and experience a method that is precise, supportive and truly inclusive.

Book with Bobby now via the link in our bio

01/01/2026

Utkatasana ⚡️Thighs burn.
Arms reach.

Pain rises — and so does my aim.

I don’t bow to the fire.
Fierce doesn’t mean angry.
It means devoted.🙏

This fire is not punishment.
It is alignment. 🔥

26/12/2025

🌟🧘‍♀️STUDENT OF THE MONTH🧘‍♀️🌟

🌟December 2025 Student of the month is……. Jackie Wilkinson!

Some people don’t just come to class — they weave themselves into the fabric of your life. Jackie was in the very first yoga class I ever attended, and somehow she’s been part of almost every meaningful yoga moment since. Over the years, we’ve shared workshops, laughter, pauses, challenges, breakthroughs, cups of tea, and all those in-between moments that don’t need naming to be felt.❤️

Jackie isn’t “just” a student. She’s a dear friend, and we’ve been through a lot together. Her practice has never been about rushing or proving — it’s been about showing up, again and again, with trust in the teachings, reverence for the subject and patience. She is the living embodiment of what consistency really looks like: slow, incremental, often invisible… until one day it isn’t.

After practising since 2002, now at 67 years old, Jackie can now just about lift up into Urdhva Dhanurasana — and the joy she feels in those tiny gains is everything. No drama. No shortcuts. Just devotion, time, and trust in the process.

And honestly? That’s the kind of yoga that stays with you for life 💛

This is what a lifelong practice looks like. Reminding us that yoga isn’t about how far we go — it’s about how faithfully we stay.🙏

❓Tell us a little about yourself…..

🧘🏼‍♂️I am Jackie Wilkinson 67 years young from Yeovil. A retired Dressmaker who now has time to practice more. I am also a keen Rambler which I joined this year. I have 2 children. Lucy who lives in Malaga and has sometimes joined us at summer school. She is taught Iyengar Yoga by senior teacher Jose Maria Vigar. Tom who lives in Bristol I am still working on!!

❓How long have you been practicing yoga?

🧘🏼‍♂️I first started Yoga in 2002(I think) when Cannons opened in Yeovil. I was delighted when Anna Finch started a class there. I have been a devotee of Iyengar Yoga ever since.

❓What made you start yoga?

🧘🏼‍♂️It was something I always wanted to do.

❓What’s your favourite pose?

🧘🏼‍♂️Viparita Karani, Vriksasana and Sirsasana
I never ever thought I would be able to balance in headstand !! I love that I can😀So anyone with the fear it will come!! Just over rule that voice in your brain saying you can't 🤣

❓What’s your favourite prop?

🧘🏼‍♂️My favourite prop has to be my bolster! Where do I start? It's great for so many poses from sitting on at the beginning of class to restorative and Pranayama.

❓How has practicing yoga benefitted your life?

🧘🏼‍♂️It has brought joy to my life and seen me through some really tough times and there have been a few!! As soon as I am on my mat a calm comes over me. I also wouldn't be without my Yoga Buddies!!

❓What makes you keep practicing?

🧘🏼‍♂️I love the way Yoga makes me feel. I leave my mat out so I can do a few poses at will. Sometimes it is just that, other days 2 hours have passed in a flash. Yoga has definitely helped my posture too.

❓Anything else you’d like to add?

🧘🏼‍♂️I have attended many workshops and Conventions over the years and my list of teachers is quite impressive. But my highlight was being taught by Geeta Iyengar in 2009. A week long convention that covered everything from asanas to chanting. It was also where Lisa and I became Yoga Buddies. Another highlight was visiting the institute in Pune in January 2020 with Lisa and Lesley an experience we will never ever forget and an honour to attend. The World Yoga Festival brings a lot of us together. We have a weekend of love, laughter, great food and of course lots of Yoga!!

Well done Jackie and Happy Birthday (26th Dec)! And thank you for sharing your yoga journey with us! ❤️🙏