LEGACY & LINEAGE: 50 YEARS OF RIMYI
September 29, 2024 December 8, 2024
SERIES OF CLASSES
Total # of Classes
6
Class length
90 minutes
Location
Online via Zoom
The purpose of this series is to celebrate the light and life of BKS Iyengar, and the impact RIMYI has had on all of us.
This series bridges the physical distance between RIMYI and Australia, and reminds us all that Pune is not an abstract dot on a map somewhere — it's a treasured place and space of learning and transformation and life-altering encounters.
Legacy and Lineage features our Senior Teachers, direct students of Guruji and Geetaji, talking about their time spent at RIMYI, and the lessons imparted to them by the Iyengars. The series will also feature newer students and teachers who have more recent experience of RIMYI, under Abhijata's direction.
Online sessions are 90 minutes long, and run on Sunday afternoons fortnightly at 3:30pm Melb/Sydney time from 29 September through to 8 December.
This program is free for all current IYA Members. It is one of your Member Benefits. We can't wait to share this series with you!
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Here is the full program for the Series:
Sunday 29 September 3:30pm AEST:
EVOLUTION IN IYENGAR YOGA: Screening of Samadhi + Pixie Lillas, Peter Thomson, John Leebold and Julia Pedersen will discuss “evolution” in Iyengar Yoga. What changes could be seen in Guruji’s approach over time, and what aspects of Iyengar Yoga are enduring and not subject to change.
Sunday 13 October 3:30pm AEDT:
GEETAJI’S PRANAYAMA: Pranayama taught by Geetaji. Students will take Geeta’s class via screening of a recording + there will be reflection by Marina Jung, Mark Gibson and Caroline Coggins on pranayama in Iyengar Yoga, and Geetaji’s approach, and how her teaching impacted them personally.
Sunday 27 October 3:30pm AEDT:
IYENGAR YOGA IS NOT SPOON-FEEDING: discussion by Peter Thomson, Pixie Lillas, Alan Goode and Kay Parry on developing your own inner learner in Iyengar Yoga, and on what was required in between times of seeing Guruji. How was one expected to develop and mature as a student in the gaps between seeing Guruji from one time to the next?
Sunday 10 November 3:30pm AEDT:
IYENGAR YOGA THERAPEUTICS AT RIMYI: a session with Stephanie Quirk and Lynn Holt about their years spent living in Pune, and what the essence is, as they saw it, of medical classes at the Institute, and what it means to speak of therapy in Iyengar Yoga.
Sunday 24 November 3:30pm AEDT:
GEETAJI: “I AM IN MY FATHER’S LIGHT, NOT HIS SHADOW”: Reflections from Kay Parry, Karen Wilde and Caroline Coggins about their own learning relationship to Geeta as a teacher, and how her presence at RIMYI evolved and changed over time. Come to understand her role in culturing and developing women practitioners, including at the Women’s Intensives.
Sunday 8 December 3:30pm AEDT:
ABHIJATA & RIMYI IN THE CURRENT DAY: this session will involve the voices of a variety of teachers and practitioners who are newer to RIMYI, and those who have been active in attending since Abhijata took the helm. We will hear their thoughts and reflections on going to Pune in recent years, and how that journey and experience has impacted them and shaped their practice.
EVOLUTION IN IYENGAR YOGA: Screening of Samadhi + Pixie Lillas, Peter Thomson, John Leebold and Julia Pedersen will discuss “evolution” in Iyengar Yoga. What changes could be seen in Guruji’s approach over time, and what aspects of Iyengar Yoga are enduring and not subject to change.
Sunday 13 October 3:30pm AEDT:
GEETAJI’S PRANAYAMA: Pranayama taught by Geetaji. Students will take Geeta’s class via screening of a recording + there will be reflection by Marina Jung, Mark Gibson and Caroline Coggins on pranayama in Iyengar Yoga, and Geetaji’s approach, and how her teaching impacted them personally.
Sunday 27 October 3:30pm AEDT:
IYENGAR YOGA IS NOT SPOON-FEEDING: discussion by Peter Thomson, Pixie Lillas, Alan Goode and Kay Parry on developing your own inner learner in Iyengar Yoga, and on what was required in between times of seeing Guruji. How was one expected to develop and mature as a student in the gaps between seeing Guruji from one time to the next?
Sunday 10 November 3:30pm AEDT:
IYENGAR YOGA THERAPEUTICS AT RIMYI: a session with Stephanie Quirk and Lynn Holt about their years spent living in Pune, and what the essence is, as they saw it, of medical classes at the Institute, and what it means to speak of therapy in Iyengar Yoga.
Sunday 24 November 3:30pm AEDT:
GEETAJI: “I AM IN MY FATHER’S LIGHT, NOT HIS SHADOW”: Reflections from Kay Parry, Karen Wilde and Caroline Coggins about their own learning relationship to Geeta as a teacher, and how her presence at RIMYI evolved and changed over time. Come to understand her role in culturing and developing women practitioners, including at the Women’s Intensives.
Sunday 8 December 3:30pm AEDT:
ABHIJATA & RIMYI IN THE CURRENT DAY: this session will involve the voices of a variety of teachers and practitioners who are newer to RIMYI, and those who have been active in attending since Abhijata took the helm. We will hear their thoughts and reflections on going to Pune in recent years, and how that journey and experience has impacted them and shaped their practice.
The class takes place on...
- September 29 at 15:30 (Sunday)
- October 13 at 15:30 (Sunday)
- October 27 at 15:30 (Sunday)
- November 10 at 15:30 (Sunday)
- November 24 at 15:30 (Sunday)
- December 8 at 15:30 (Sunday)
Reservations
This class series has already finished. Please check our schedule for more classes.