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Energy

Iyengar yoga makes you move in a healthy way. You’ll be energized by the work you do and your cells open up for storing some for later.

Peace of Mind

In our lessons, you’ll work with your body, but also with your head and your heart. With more peace of mind and both feet on the ground.

For everone

Regardless of your age, your flexibility, or your health, you can continue to develop in our yoga school. From newbies to advanced practitioners and teachers.

Yogaschool in Amsterdam Oud West

SINCE 25+ YEARS
Yogaschool Amsterdam moved studios five times since its beginning in 1999. This was all within a circle of 3-4 km from Amsterdam Oud-West. The nomadic life is over now, we’ve literally come home, to the Kanaalstraat. On the outside it looks like a private house, inside the space is fully equipped for Iyengar yoga, the only kind of yoga that is taught here.

Start with YOGA?

All beginnings are difficult. A good start is half the battle. They may be clichés, but they are so true. Also for yoga. We believe in a solid foundation that you will enjoy for years. Our advice is therefore: start at the base and go back to it if you have been practicing for years, because only then can you speak of ‘deepening your practice’. That is why our Beginners lessons are not only suitable for newcomers to (Iyengar) yoga but also for advanced practitioners. These yoga lessons are for everyone who wants to get the most out of it from the start, from yoga and from themselves.

Our Beginners classes are all about ‘doing doing doing’. Under the guidance of certified yoga teachers, you will learn to perform the basic postures in a safe manner. You will learn and practice standing postures and you will be introduced to props and cyclic learning. Cyclical learning means that you repeatedly do the same exercises, each time lit from a different angle. Working for 75 minutes on Tuesday- and Wednesday evening and Saturday morning is an invigorating change in your week. You go back to the essence of yoga: you feel free! Because of more stability and flexibility in your body, you will feel better about yourself. Even when you’re stepping off your mat.

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Yoga is for life

Iyengar yoga often touches you right from the first class: you feel more at ease in your body. Our structured approach offers self-knowledge, challenge, and depth, with room to grow. Quality comes first: you learn safely step by step, work mindful, and overcome yourself.

Whether you are just starting out or already have experience, there is always a class that suits you. For those who need extra support due to injuries or limitations, there is the Prop Up class (after consultation with the teacher). Have you mastered the basics? Then you can move on to the General classes. Advanced practitioners will find depth in all classes, but the extra challenge lies in the Advanced class.

All classes are held in the studio. Online classes are available for experienced practitioners in the General and Advanced classes.

Ready to get started? You are most welcome.

FAQ

More about 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. ( source Wikipedia)

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.

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What Others Say

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  • learn the poses the right way

    Love going to Kristien’s classes. She obviously lives and breathes yoga and has a lot of knowledge to share…Happily return there every week 🙂
    Ranco

  • An OASIs in Amsterdam

    An oasis within busy Amsterdam where to learn and practice yoga safely. Fully corona proof and also offering online lessons. The quality of the teachers is superb. …More
    Johanna

  • Still Impressed

    For a few years, I follow lessons here and I am so often still impressed by the enormous variety of exercises and professionality of the teachers. Every lesson I reach beyond my physical borders without going too far, which has a …More
    Emmy

  • WOW!

    I truly enjoyed the hospitality, the flow, and the professionalism at Yoga school Amsterdam. After the Iyengar Yoga MASTERCLASS, I experienced an equanimity (~evenwichtigheid~) that lasted for several days. WOW!
    Elisabeth

  • What an incredible yoga school this is!

    After years of classical ballet, I developed an ‘eye’ for teachers that know what they do when it comes to other people’s bodies and for the ones that ‘fake it till they make it’. The level Of …Meer
    Sissy

“I like to imagine a world in which everyone can be themselves in connection.”

Kristien, owner Yogaschool Amsterdam