By Our Students & Teachers

IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a very common affliction. It is estimated that 20-30 percent of the population in the USA is suffering from it. Actually, IBS is a broad name for many kinds of symptoms and unpleasant sensations of the guts: bloating, cramps, pains, nausea, constipation or diarrhea (sometimes both together) and many...

Over a third of men over the age of 50 will experience some issues relating to the health of the prostate, statistics from the National Health Service in the UK, and yet it is a part of the anatomy most men are very unfamiliar with. What is the prostate? The prostate is a small gland...

I am living evidence of my connection to Nature. When I walk out into the cold and look down to my bare arms I see the hairs on my skin standing up. In the heat of summer my skin begins to sweat. There is a direct connection between my physical body and the external...

‘This too shall pass’ -Persian proverb Change happens. Just as the seasons turn, the moon waxes and wanes, the tides come in and out, creatures live and die, and so must everything in life change. Even the deserts, even the seas, even the mountains will change. Change is the only thing of which we can be...

Permaculture and Yoga are two systems which give guidance for how to live integrated, balanced lifestyles. In this article I will explore how the two systems speak similar languages and what they can reveal to us on the topics of abundance and wealth. Permaculture has it’s roots in farming. It’s pioneer, Bill Mollison, in the...

We all encounter problems in life, big ones and small ones. We can get engrossed in the difficulty of the problem and it seems as though we have no option but to turn the other way and run. Within every problem that we encounter, though, there is a lesson to be learnt which is...

Drinking coffee seems at odds with yoga practice, as per the Himalayan Iyengar Yoga Centre (HIYC) method, as it is very clearly a stimulant that affects our energy levels, metabolism, moods and digestion - all things we work to stabilise through our practice. To explore the question of whether we can drink coffee and...

Hatha Yoga Asanas - Is Yoga About Physical Postures? Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – The Obstacles on the Yoga Path Most of the people start doing yoga with a physical practice which is called asana (posture). In the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, a book 2500 years old, all that was related to yoga is compiled in...

Sadhana Padah / The Chapter on Practice – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Patanjali, the great yogi, covered all the subject of Yoga in only 196 sentences divided into 4 chapters. The second chapter is called Sadhana Padah. Sadhana is the practice and the one doing it, the practitioner is a sadhak. How the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali...

Addressing Yoga Student’s Needs: The Art of Differentiation Yoga Teachers Training Program at the HIYC You may have had the experience of being a teacher of twenty-five or more students. Possibly you have this experience daily. If so, you have likely encountered the difficulty of meeting all the students’ individual needs. No matter the subject...