News & upcoming classes
New term starts October 9 – new timetable online
New level 1 courses in term 4
New courses starting October 9
Just finished your beginners course? New to the studio but have some experience? Click here.
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Studio holidays and closing dates, 2017
Term break timetable
September 25 – October 8
The studio runs a reduced timetable between terms to help you keep up with your practice. Find out more here.
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Private Iyengar yoga classes
Celebrating 36 years of Iyengar Yoga practice.
The Balmain Iyengar Yoga Studio is one of the longest running yoga studios in Sydney and Australia. For 36 years we have offered classes for all levels from beginner to advanced level. All teachers are certified Iyengar yoga teachers and have all trained extensively with the school founder, Pixie Lillas.
Friday intensive series: backbends
Friday intensive series: hips, forward bends and twists
September 22, 2017
Pixie will run her regular intensive focusing on hips, forward bends and twists.
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Teacher development workshops
Various dates throughout 2017
Pixie will teach development workshops for Junior and Senior Intermediate trainees.
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The Evolution of Practice – Or How Our Truth Changes
Written by Pixie Lillas
“There is no greater gift we could receive than that of being alive to ourselves and our surroundings, of finding a willingness to see and to learn and to be transformed. It is something for which we, Guruji’s students, owe him our deepest gratitude and love.”
At my first meeting with Guruji at the Institute in Pune in 1977 I was young in yoga and in years and I was going to the Institute without any real idea of what time spent learning from Mr Iyengar would involve. I thought perhaps that in any case it would be more “yogic” to go with as few preconceptions as possible, believing myself to be free-minded and without set concepts. As soon as I arrived I began to see that this was just one of the many fixed beliefs I held.