yoga bks iyengar, phildelphia Index

Our Studio is a safe place for you to maintain good health, physical fitness and mental well-being through the benefits of yoga. We provide a clean, wholesome facility with quality instruction. You can develop a greater awareness of yourself and enhance the quality of your life. The art, science and philosophy of yoga are taught according to the teachings of BKS Iyengar in the classical tradition of Astanga (8 limbed) yoga. The Iyengar method is founded in Pantanjali’s Yoga Sutras and emphasizes precise and careful body alignment, muscular balance, and development of strength, stamina, and flexibility.

All classes are taught in the Iyengar tradition by Russ Taylor and Elzbieta Jablonska. Russ and Elzbieta are both certified Iyengar yoga teachers with over 10 years teaching experience. They have made a total of 11 trips to India to study with the Iyengars. Russ was formally trained in the physical therapy profession in the US, and Elzbieta has ten years experience in structural body work. Please call or email with any questions you have before attending classes.

Yoga instructor serves as an inspiration for scores of West Philly residents. "Eastern gurus are not the easiest people to work with - they're not for everybody." BY SONO MOTOYAMA pic Photo by Candace diCarlo In the late '60s, long before one-name celebrities - Madonna, Rachel, Sting - made it a fashionable trend, Joan White discovered yoga in the relative obscurity of a Midwestern college town. Those were the days before Power Yoga and other Americanized forms of this ancient art.