Iyengar Yoga with Maggie O'Grady

02/07/2025

Happy Birthday 🎂 Prashantji! I will have to find a more appropriate place to post, as I’m sure you will not be looking at my page later! 🤣

🕉जन्मदिन की शुभकामनाएं Prashantji🙏🏻
🎉Happy Healthy Birthday Prashantji!!🎈
Prashant Iyengar is the son of B.K.S. Iyengar and director of the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Pune. He is one of the most respected yoga and philosophy teachers in the world.

08/05/2025

Attended the Online UK Convention this past weekend with . I will have to take another look and run through the recording again this weekend to decide what my favourite quote was. What I loved was how she brought in the and focused on the ; particularly the mention of how the of works through the skin and the sensations of spreading and making space! My favourite BKS Iyengar Yoga quote is “spread the awareness like the rays of the sun!“ For me, it’s that making of
and with and beyond the element of ether that can make so ! Of course we need the other elements or we’d just float away into the (which we do from time to time!) - and - as we live on this earthly plane, it’s so important to ground ourselves! Access to the fifth element and beyond are what keep me seeking more contact with !

17/04/2025

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18/03/2025

https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/iyengar-yoga/about-ramamani-iyengar. I’m here in and most mornings after class with Prashant, Abhijata or Raya, I drink my coffee across from bronze heads on BKS & Ramamani . Although the institute was named after Ramamani Iyengar, I realised that I knew very little about her. I ’googled’ her and found these lovely tributes from BKS, Geeta and Prashant.

About Ramamani Iyengar B.K.S. Iyengar’s beloved wife, Smt. Ramamani Iyengar, died in 1973. The following tributes are from B.K.S. Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar and Prashant Iyengar: From “Rama – The Light Of My Life.” By B.K.S. Iyengar Every day I got up early for my yoga practices. Rama al...

10/03/2025

I have been in Pune for a week now . The teachers have been teaching lots of supines and cooling poses because it is unusually hot for this time of year. I don’t mind the heat. I know I am lucky. 🍀 Prashant is teaching lots of in his class and lots of as usual with unusually sharp for flushing out the mind, body, head, brain, etc! His pranayama class is sublime. I am so to be here and that Prashant & Abhijata are both teaching pranayama. I don’t take it for granted for a moment. It’s arguable that I cannot afford it - that I am living beyond my means. But can one afford to ignore one’s ? The greatest task for all of us in YOG is to ensure that we’re not blinded by the material world - blinded by , which confuses us. I have a to pay all by myself after all! I have managed to pay it by myself for 11 years - & have to keep getting and stay if I am to continue to provide a home for my beloved cat 🐱 Sparkle who is sixteen years old and deserves to live out the rest of her days in her realm. She is my . The house is hers more than mine. All my fear of losing my material security can obscure the true nature of reality and the . I am human and have one foot in the material world - the outer life - and one foot in the world of the spirit - the inner life: an . 🙏🏻 Here are some familiar scenes from around .

14/06/2024

All you need is a chair & a bolster to get into this little flow. ☺️

10/03/2024

Happy Mother’s Day Everyone ~ whether we are mothers or not, we all have have a nurturing part of ourselves that doesn’t want children to suffer. This Mother’s Day, I am teaching a yoga class to support Save the Children’s Gaza Crisis Appeal and we have already raised over £1000 for suffering children and their families in and around Gaza! If you’d like to support us, you can at: https://www.justgiving.com/page/maggie-ogradys-appeal-for-gazan-children. Thank you 🙏🏻

Help Margaret O'Grady raise money to support Save the Children

02/03/2024

After a week training at his institute in Nice, France, Christian is in London this weekend. We started last night with a wonderful, restorative class in the dark.