Nordic Iyengar Yoga Convention

About the Convention

Welcome to the event of the year within Iyengar yoga - the Nordic Iyengar Yoga Covention 2018!

The association for Iyengar yoga in Sweden have the great honor of welcoming Abhijata Sridhar Iyengar, grandchild of BKS Iyengar, to the greatest event in Iyengar yoga ever. 

Abhijata have picked the exciting theme of 'Going beyond boundaries". During May she will spread her message in four European cities and Gothenburg is one of these.

It's the first time ever someone from the Iyengar family visits a Nordic country which makes this convent very special for us in the Nordic Countries. 

During 2018 BKS Iyengar would have turned 100 years and the Iyengar yoga association in Sweden and Norway celebrates 10 years! This is something we will celebrate!

About Iyengar yoga

Iyengar yoga is based on a triad of precision, timing and sequencing.

Guruji B.K.S Iyengar started his teaching around the year of 1936. Because of the many different styles of yoga that were available, students of Guruji started to call his teaching and their practice for Iyengar Yoga. It's been followed by thousands of yoga practitioners and is now well rooted in the western world as well as India, Asia and Australia.

Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI), the mother-institute of Iyengar Yoga where B.K.S taught locals and devoted yogis from all over the world, was in June 2017 honored by the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi. Out of 85 nominated yoga institutes RIMYI received the award due to over 40 years of splendid contribution, enhancement of knowledge and practice of yoga and for allowing it to spread all over the world.

Precision, timing and sequencing are not a rigid set of rules. Each of the three depends on various factors like aim, condition, age, time of the day, mental state, schedule, environment condition etc.

Precision, accuracy and concern for details are of great importance for the asana. Alignment and stability are valuable cues. 'When each cell exists in clarity, it's precision.'

Guruji said, 'When I'm in an asana, I go beyond the chronological and psychological boundary of time'. Timing is not a mere calculation of seconds and minutes one remains in an asana. It's a 'time requisition' made by an asana for its evolution when one matures in sadhana. ”When each cell is sensitive to being in the present, it's timing.”

The internal ambiance created by the earlier set of asanas should not be disturbed but enhanced by the following set of asanas. At the end of the sequence, a state of quietude and equanimity is expected to be created. 'When each cell can flow harmoniously into the next moment, it's sequencing'.

Useful info

• Date: 10-13th of May 2018
• Time: Registration starts at 13:00 & the first yoga class begins at 16:00
• Location: Eriksbergshallen, Maskingsgatan 10, Gothenburg
• Price: 4495 SEK
• Included:
  • Yoga
  • Lunch
  • T-shirt
  • Activity during Saturday evening
• Previous knowledge: Anyone who practices yoga are welcome! You will be challenged no matter how long you have been practicing.
• Bring:
  • Yogamat
  • 2 bricks
  • 2 belts
  • 4 flat blocks
  • 2 blankets
  • You can rent/buy all of these it you don't have your own
• Teacher: Abhijata Sridhar Iyengar

About the teacher

SMT. ABHIJATA SRIDHAR IYENGAR is the grand-daughter of GURUJI BKS Iyengar.

She started seriously studying yoga from the young age of 16 under the direct guidance of her maternal grandfather, GURUJI BKS Iyengar, her aunt, Smt Geeta S. Iyengar and uncle Shri Prashant Iyengar. She has a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from University of Pune, and is now a full-time devoted student as well as a Senior Teacher at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI), – the cradle of Iyengar yoga – located in Pune, India.

Abhijata traveled with Guruji to Russia and China. She has accompanied Smt Geeta S Iyengar to International Yoga Conventions in UK, Australia, Germany and USA and She has also taught independently at yoga conventions in France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, the UK and Israel.

Abhijata has now grown to be an articulate teacher, with great energy and clarity, and remarkably poised. She is commanding without arrogance. Her teachings combine precise asana instructions with straightforward yoga philosophy, and they are peppered with anecdotes of her grandfather.

Registration

You can register at the Noric Iyengar association's website.