Iyengar Yoga Centrum Oosterhout en Breda

19/11/2025

🙏🏻❤️✨

Today, on the (western) birthday of Śrī T. Krishnamacharya, I want to honor the teacher who quietly protected yoga’s deepest roots —through colonial disruption, cultural change, and the pressures of modernization.
His devotion to Sanskrit, chanting, darśana, sādhana, and individualized teaching is the reason the lineage still breathes today.

In that spirit, I want to share something essential:

Decolonizing yoga is not a trend.
It’s a return to the tradition.

Yoga is a Darśana — a philosophical system.
The Yoga Sūtra and Haṭha texts are Śāstra,
the treatises that preserve and transmit the Darśana.

Much of this was lost or diluted through colonization, commercialization, and Western reinterpretation.

So here are 10 ways to decolonize your yoga practice:
1. Bring back Samkritam (Sanskrit)
2. Learn proper pronunciation
3. Restore chanting
4. Remember yoga is a Darśana
5. Study the Śāstra
6. Learn from lineage-rooted Indian teachers
7. Understand that asana is only one limb
8. Avoid rebranding the tradition
9. Honor sacred symbols
10. Don’t replace yoga’s teachings with western psychology

Krishnamacharya embodied this every day —living yoga as a complete, integrated path rooted in wisdom, relationship, and transmission.

We honor him by remembering what yoga truly is —
and by carrying the tradition forward with nobility and care.

16/11/2025

07/10/2025

06/09/2025

🕉️

I can tell you what silence is. Silence means space. Silence is without any border or limitation. Silence means a state in which there is no observer, thinker or experiencer: complete silence. But you don’t know what that means, and you cannot imitate it. Therefore you have to find out for yourself. That means to find out what real silence is.⁠
⁠
⁠
J. Krishnamurti⁠
From Students Talk 3, Rishi Valley, 25 January 1966⁠
⁠
⁠
⁠

26/08/2025

We are happy to announce Eddy and Mary will teach a in our for the 5th time. 3, 4 and 5 October 2025
www.iyengar-yoga-Breda.nl

12/08/2025

In Iyengar yoga, straightening the legs in poses is a key element that enhances energy flow, improves circulation, and promotes overall body awareness. It’s not just about achieving a straight line; it’s about actively engaging the muscles and creating a sense of length and expansion throughout the limb. This focus on alignment and extension helps to refine the poses and deepen the practice. 

Here’s a more detailed explanation:
• Creating Lines of Energy:
Straightening limbs, including legs, creates clear and lengthened lines of energy through the body. This channeling of prana (life force) through the nadis (energy channels) helps to remove blockages and allows energy to flow more freely.
• Expansion and Tension Release:
Actively straightening and lengthening the legs in Iyengar yoga facilitates expansion, both physically and energetically. This expansion helps to decompress joints, release unnecessary muscular tension, and open up the body.
• Improving Circulation:
Straight legs, especially in standing poses, support better blood flow and circulation. This improved circulation nourishes the tissues and contributes to a greater sense of vitality.
• Building Stamina:
Poses that require straight, strong legs, such as Ardha Chandrasana, Virbhadrasana 3 encourage energy flow and help build stamina.
• Mindfulness and Self-Awareness:
Iyengar Yoga emphasizes body awareness and control, which can be enhanced through mindful attention to leg alignment. This mindful connection promotes mental clarity, reduces stress, and brings a sense of peace.

10/07/2025

Gurupurnima 2025 Blessed and grateful with love to our Guruji.

10/07/2025

🙏🏻🕉💫

28/06/2025

Iyengar Yoga Center Breda was invited to teach, June 13nd 2025 at yearly event for people working at UWV, a national government organisation. Location Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

21/06/2025

21/06/2025

🙏🏻💫🕉