Hi everyone,
Christmas 2025 has been, and now we enter a new year. Thank you to everyone who sent me their good wishes for Christmas and the coming year. I hope you also had a good festive season.
For me, 2025 went very quickly. I managed to fit in two trips to India and four teaching trips to Ireland, Sweden, Denmark and Hungary as well as two teaching days in London. At the Yoga Shala we had seven Level 1 and seven Level 2 workshops and four Level 3 weekends. Many students, teachers and trainee teachers benefitted from these workshops – maybe you will get to attend some in the coming year.
We also hosted a Level 1 assessment at the Yoga Shala. This resulted in four new Iyengar yoga teachers, two of whom had trained with me here at the Yoga Shala (Mary & Philip), possibly shadowing myself or Sara in your classes. Congratulations to them both.
I hope that 2026 will be a good year with lots of positive things for us to look forward to. I have planned several workshops, my regular classes will continue and there will be some events for teachers coming up. See below for details of these classes and events.
Our current term dates are as follows:
Monday January 5th to Friday February 13th – 6 weeks
Monday February 23rd to Friday 27th March – 5 weeks (Easter is early this year)
My weekly classes remain the same for now. The pranayama class will continue once a month on a Monday – normally the second Monday in any month. The first of these will happen on Monday 12th January.
Remember that for Sara or Michele’s classes you need to contact them directly. Their contact information is on my website.
The coming workshops are as follows:
Level 1 – 11th January; 15th February; 22nd March. (9:30am to 12:30 pm – cost £35)
Level 2 – 24th January; 28th February (11am to 4:30pm – cost £50)
Level 3 weekend – March 7th & 8th (Sat 11am to 5:30pm; Sun 9:30am to 4pm – cost £110 for both days or £60 per day)
Further dates for all workshops can be seen on the appropriate page on the website under the heading ‘Workshops’
On Sunday 8th February we have a teachers and trainees ‘Exchange of Learning Day’. It is currently full but I am exploring to see if a further date can be added. If you are interested in an extra date please let me know so that I can contact you if it goes ahead.
There is a plan to run a Chakras course in 4 parts, each of 4 days, with myself and Gitte Bechsgaard. If you are interested in attending this course, please let me know soon. It will only run if there is sufficient interest. The dates for the first two parts are April 11th – 14th and June 6th to 9th with the dates for the last two parts to be decided. See my website https://www.iyengar-yoga-shala.co.uk/chakras-course/
If you are interested the UK national Iyengar Yoga Convention, this year it will be held in Glasgow. It will be taught by Birjo Mehta and you can find information and book the convention on the IY(UK) website: https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/birjoo-mehta-convention-2026/
You can also consider becoming a member of the IY(UK) – Iyengar Yoga (UK) – association by following this link: https://iyengaryoga.org.uk/join-iyuk/
I look forward to seeing you at the Yoga Shala soon.
With my best wishes
Sheila