Teacher
Biogs
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Helen
Graham
Helen is the only Senior Iyengar Teacher in Glasgow and the West of Scotland. She completed the 3 year senior certificate in February 2006.
Helen is on the IYA(UK) Exec committee and is the chair of the events committee, responsible for organising the annual UK convention.
Helen started yoga when still at school aged 15. Her interest continued while she was a student in London, but it was when she experienced her first Iyengar class in 1984 that yoga became a way of life.
Helen started teaching Iyengar yoga in 1990 and now has weekly classes for beginners and intermediate students on the south side and west end of Glasgow as well as running classes for teachers and training teachers at junior intermediate level.
She also teachers day and weekend workshops most recently in Manchester, Edinburgh, Berlin, Gothenburg and Mumbai.
Helen is also an assessor for the IYA(UK) assessing at all teaching levels from introductory, to senior. From August 2008 she will start training new intoductory teachers in Glasgow.
Helen visits Pune every year, attending the general classes and helping in the medical classes. November 2008 will be her 9th visit.
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Susan Smith
Susan has been practicing yoga since she was a student in the 1970’s. She started by teaching yoga from her own practice to students with special needs. Then went on to become an introductory Iyengar Yoga teacher in 1985 and completed her Junior Intermediate certificates in 1992. Her main classes are in Linlithgow but she also does classes with individuals in the Falkirk area.
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Lyn Farquar
Lyn has taught Iyengar Yoga since 1991 and holds a Junior Intermediate certificate.
Lyn regularly travelled to Sunderland where she trained as a Teacher Trainer under the guidance of Margaret Austin, and now trains students to become Iyengar Yoga teachers in Stirling.
Lyn teaches in Dunblane, Doune and Stirling.
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Neil
Gilles
Neil qualified as an Iyengar Yoga
Teacher in 1995 and gained the Junior Intermediate Teaching
Certificate in March 2003. He has recently returned from
India where he attended a course at The Iyengar Institute
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Martin Hall
Martin has been practising Iyengar yoga since 1990, and has been teaching since 1998. He attended classes at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune in 1999 and 2001. Martin obtained his Introductory teaching certificate in 1997, and passed the Junior Intermediate Level 2 in March 2007. He is currently working towards Junior Intermediate Level 3.
Martin teaches classes in Stoer, Ullapool and Achiltibuie.
More information may be found on his website: www.gorrell.co.uk |
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Pamela
Martin
Pamela began practising yoga as
a teenager, and discovered Iyengar yoga in 1995. She loves
this form of yoga for its precision, and the benefits
of strength, flexibility and stamina it brings, while
still being enjoyable and calming.
She gained her Introductory Certificate in 2000, and has
been teaching Level 1 & 2 classes in the West End
of Glasgow since then. Currently studying for Part 2 of
the Junior Intermediate Certificate, she has regularly
attended workshops with Indian teachers from the Iyengar
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Frances
McKee
Frances has been practicing Iyengar
Yoga for fourteen years and teaching for eight years.
During this time she has come to realize the potential
of yoga in maintaining and improving health and draws
on her experience as a natural nutrition therapist to
complement this philosophy. Yoga has given her the strength,
patience and endurance to raise her three young children.
Frances gained her Introductory Level Certificate in 1997
and studied at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune with
Prashant and Geeta Iyengar in the same year. She is currently
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Bonar
Hutchison
Bonar has been practicing yoga
for over
over eighteen years years. He began Iyengar Yoga ten years
ago and has been teaching yoga for over six years. Bonar passed
his Introductory Level Certificate in 2002 and Intermediate Junior Level 1 in 2006.
In August 2006 Bonar and his partner Mak opened Yogasarvasya Studio in Partick in the West End of Glasgow.
At present he is working to complete his Intermediate Junior certification and
is also organising Iyengar Yoga holidays in Portugal . In October 2008 Bonar
will be studying for the second time at the Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune, India.
More information can be found on his website: www.yogasarvasya.com
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Charlott
Hill
Charlott is originally from Stuttgart
in Germany and holds a degree in Classical singing from
the RSAMD. She also holds a music-teaching certificate.
Charlott gained her Introductory Level Certificate in
2004
In her own words: 'I LOVE YOGA!' |
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Valerie Miller
Valerie has been practicing Iyengar Yoga for twelve years, gained her Introductory Teaching Certificate in 2005, and currently teaches at Yogasarvasya Sudio in the West End of Glasgow. Besides enjoying the many benefits offered by Iyengar Yoga, with a background in Fine Art and a lifelong interest in dance, she also appreciates the beauty of the asanas. Her second visit to study at the Ramamani Memorial Iyengar Yoga Institute will be in October '08.
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Liz Sumner
Liz enjoyed dance from an early age, including classical ballet and modern stage. She danced and acted in amateur musicals.
Practising yoga, Liz enjoys the benefits of the strength and flexibility - the grace, focus and mental equilibrium.
Liz started practising Iyengar yoga several years ago and gained her Introductory teaching certificate in 2006.
She no longer works full-time as a psychologist in order to create more space to paint and to practise and teach yoga; (Introductory classes in the Glasgow area.) www.lizsumneryoga.co.uk
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Andy Brennan
Twin, son, friend, cyclist, harrier,clinical physicist, partner, husband, father, gardener, yogi, Iyengar yoga teacher…… Everyman.
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Kate Stannard
Kate began practicing Iyengar Yoga in 1999. Although she has experimented with many different types of yoga she fell in love with the precision and detail of the Iyengar way. She dedicated her practice to Iyengar and went on to do her teacher training. She now holds her Introductory level 2 Teaching Certificate. Alongside her passion for Yoga, Kate holds a degree in Contemporary Theatre Practice and works as a performer, director and educationalist. She is also a qualified Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor.
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