Over yoga en Iyengar yoga
With yoga you save energy.
You do this by consciously allowing yourself the time and space for this. That’s what you do with yoga. With yoga, you get moving in a healthy way so that you not only use energy but also get and keep it.
Why yoga, you may ask. While you make dozens of choices every day to give people and situations the attention they deserve. Your work, colleagues, family, friends, and relatives. And yourself? How do you make sure you still have energy left for yourself?
Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision, and alignment in the performance of yoga postures (asanas).
The style often makes use of props, such as belts, blocks, and blankets, as aids in performing the asanas. The props enable beginning students, the elderly, or those with physical limitations to perform the asanas correctly, minimizing the risk of injury or strain. ( bron Wikipedia)
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (14 December 1918 – 20 August 2014) was an Indian teacher of yoga and author. He is founder of the style of yoga as exercise, known as “Iyengar Yoga“, and was considered one of the foremost yoga gurus in the world.[1][2][3] He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often referred to as “the father of modern yoga”.[4] He has been credited with popularizing yoga, first in India and then around the world.[5]
The Indian government awarded Iyengar the Padma Shri in 1991, the Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2014. In 2004, Iyengar was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Read more
Regardless of your age, your flexibility, or your health, you can continue to develop in our yoga school. Whether you are spiritual or very down to earth, introverted or extroverted, a group person or not. From beginners to advanced and teachers. Everyone comes together in harmony at Yogaschool Amsterdam. It is no coincidence that most pupils come to stay with us.
About the courses
The camera only works when the computer is on for a Zoom connection with
students at home. So it is not ‘on’ or on ‘sleep’ when no online connection is made. The lesson ‘in the room’ is also ‘online’, for convenience we call this a ‘hybrid lesson’. We have already gotten to know the students who participate via online connection in a lesson in the room, so no strangers come to join. We really look at what a student does at home and give feedback to people in the room just as well as via the online connection.
The camera is mainly focused on the teacher. If a student wants to see who exactly is participating in the room via the online connection, it will be noticeable, because that person is not practising 😉
The intention is that you are on your mat when you follow the online lesson, and not always looking at other participants in the room or online as a voyeur. The teacher will pay attention to this and reserves the right to remove someone from the online class.
We do not offer Beginners classes online because we believe that someone who starts Iyengar yoga needs the three-dimensional space to get to know themselves and the exercises. It is also important for us teachers to get to know you in the group
class first, so that we can guide you well in an online class from a distance.
As you can see in our schedule, the times of the online and in-class classes are the same. Currently, only Kristien gives hybrid classes. The General classes given
by Anna, Frans Jozef and Linda are all ‘in-class’.
Five people can join the Asana classes online, eight people can join the Pranayama class on Friday.
Depending on the type of class, up to twelve people can join in the class.
Our Yoga School is on the ground floor of a house, approximately sixty square meters. You enter through a narrow hallway where you can put your coat and shoes. You can change in the toilet, on one side of the room. We therefore ask you, where possible, to come to us with your yoga clothes on under your street clothes. The street clothes fit in a crate and go in the closet. And this way there is more room for yoga. We are making the most of space and no, unfortunately there is no shower.
In principle, the front door will be locked when the class starts. This provides peace and concentration at the start of the class. So come ten minutes in advance and allow plenty of time for your travel, especially if you have to cross one of the bridges. The front door will open fifteen minutes before the class starts.
Do you have another question?
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