NEWSLETTER SPRING 2025
WELCOME - IYS NEWSLETTER SPRING 2025
February 1st-2nd marked the first spring festival of the old calendar IMBOLC. From an Ayurvedic point of view, the dosha (mind-body type) or constitution known as ‘kapha’ increases during the early stages of spring.
Thus, it is known as Kapha season. The darkness and cold of winter stay in the body and we become lethargic, and we find that dampness rises, as does congestion. Luckily the sun is rising earlier and with it so we find our energy increases.
To help recharge the body for the spring months we can try to rise earlier and to walk in nature more, incorporating a daily yoga routine that is more dynamic, expansive and stimulating. We can incorporate standing twists, chest openers and sun salutations as well as restorative postures to ground, centre and connect.
This Newsletter has memories of our member Felicity Goodson and two poems she wrote for us, and also of Rowena Cager. We have a review of the Exchange of Learning Day held in Lancing. I have written a review of an event held at Iyengar Yoga London for Gurujis birthday, marking 40 years since its opening as the first Iyengar yoga centre in London. I also contributed an article explaining what Kirtan is.
I look forward to hearing your comments, suggestions and reviews for the Autumn newsletter.
Helen (Editor)
Namasté
Forthcoming Events
Workshop with Khaled Kendsi
Saturday 12th April 2025
Review of Past Events National Iyengar Yoga Day 2025
Contributions by Brian Ingram and attendees
Exchange of Learning Day 2024
by Sarah Delfas
A Celebration of 40 years and Guruji’s birthday
at Iyengar Yoga London
by Helen Ayling
IYS Members Pages
In Memory of Felicity Goodson
by Sallie Sullivan and Linzi Kent
In Memory of Rowena Cager
by Brian Ingram
What is Kirtan?
by Helen Ayling
Notice Board
Equipment for Sale
Useful Web Links
The Final Word
Khaled Kensi Workshop
Membership Form
WORKSHOP WITH KHALED KENDSI
Saturday 12th April 2025 2.00pm - 5.00pm
NATIONAL IYENGAR YOGA DAY - LEWES
Saturday 18th January 2025
Contributions by Brian Ingram and attendees.
IYS is delighted to welcome back Khaled Kendsi from North London to teach our next workshop in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex. Khaled works in the NHS as a cardiac physiologist and is qualified in Immediate Life Support.
Khaled teaches regular classes at Iyengar Yoga Maida Vale (IYMV) in London where he has been practicing and
studying Iyengar yoga since 1998. On his several visits to RIMYI in Pune India he has assisted in the medical classes. Khaled has an interest in Yoga therapy and has studied with Stephanie Quirk.
Once again Lewes put on a great NIYD event in the Malling Community Centre from 2 - 4 pm. There were the usual interesting displays of books, a history of Iyengar Yoga In Sussex display and posters.
Sallie Sullivan gave a most interesting talk on Yoga Asana Through the Ages with many references to classical paintings and artwork of Yoga Asanas as well as 20th century photos. A few of the poses in the talk were very ably demonstrated by Jo Clayton and Gareth Ormorod.
This was then followed by a short taster class taught by myself. I was delighted to have approx 14 people attending my class. Thanks to Sallie and Lewes Yoga for organising such an interesting event.
Brian Ingram
I enjoyed the Iyengar talk at the Malling Community Centre- especially the slide show. It was a well-attended event and it was great to see so many people showing up to learn about the history of Iyengar Yoga on a rather cold, damp day.
Jill
I thoroughly enjoyed Sallie’s talk on the origins of modern day yoga, with great visual references showing how and by whom the poses originated. Sallie is so knowledgeable and gave a captivating and insightful talk to us.
Katie
EXCHANGE OF LEARNING DAY
Saturday 9th November 2024
By Sarah Delfas
The IYS EOL day for teacher’s and mentees took place on the afternoon of 9th November 2024 at Yoga South in Lancing. Cathy Rogers-Evans led the afternoon and was keen to make it clear from the start that these EOL days are not to be greeted with the trepidation of the old PD days (where we all used to pull an asana out of a hat and have to teach it in front of a room full of teachers and then receive “feedback” in the form of discussion).
We began the afternoon with a 40-minute inversion practice, our own practice according to our level and our needs on that day. No instruction or correction - just Cathy coming round with the occasional welcome adjustment, or advice if anyone had any questions about their own practice. It was quiet, cooperative and friendly. Mine ended with a lovely long Sarvangasana hanging over the trestle next to Randall. (It is always good to catch up with fellow yoga teachers within our community, even if the asana makes you so quiet neither of you wants to speak!) I was struck by how we had time for proper practice, even within this type of training day which often brings the stress of having to cover a lot of material in only just enough time. The inversions served to calm and settle everyone for the next part of the day.
To cover this year’s theme of teaching yoga to all ages the age groups were divided into children (7-11), teenagers (11 - 16), young adults (16 - 30), adulthood (30-55) middle age (55 plus) and senior citizens. Cathy and Randall had used blue tape stuck on the floor to divide the central part of their room into a small teaching space in which a class for each age group was to be “acted”. For each session two or three asanas were given and we needed a teacher, an assistant and two students. Those not participating in that particular “micro class” sat outside the blue lines and watched. We were a small group of about 15 teachers in a cosy space, which meant everyone felt part of what was going on and the audience was collaborative, contributing to the discussion after each session.
While those who stepped up to teach the different age groups had to think how to adapt their teaching to the requirements and needs of that age, those who volunteered to be students also had to think what students at that age and stage are really like. Julia Owen and I jumped up (rather too keenly?!) to be 7 - 11 year-olds - enthusiastic, open, chatty, easily distracted and often as wobbly as willows in the wind - but nothing fazed the super calm IYS Chair Brian Ingram who was our teacher. The role of assistant was new to many of us - not only how to be a good assistant but also how to use assistants for the best. When I taught the teenage group, I was glad to have Bev Appleby as an assistant who could stay at the front and keep going with Surya Namaskar while I could walk around and observe my lovely, sweet teenage students. With this age group, having someone to keep the demonstration going while the teacher teaches is invaluable and I often find myself asking one of my more experienced teens to play this role in my regular after-school class.
We discussed matching the teacher’s energy to the energy required by the students of these two different age groups. Children need to be kept busy with a pace that keeps moving; teens also need to move but they respond well to a varying pace with more intense activity interspersed by short quieter moments. They often come into class tired after school and wanting to lie down but it is a case of shifting their energy slump so that their practice refreshes them. Jenny Kemp taught the 16-30s class - clear, firm instructions and strong work in Virabhadrasana 1 and 3, going into more detail than for the younger age groups and introducing the use of props to help bring the practice along.
We then had a break for lunch and time after this break for discussion of IY(UK)’s equity policy and the awareness of equity that we should be bringing to all our classes. Trainee teacher (and a lawyer in her “other”life) Pegah Sharghy helpfully and clearly took us through aspects of the Equality Act that are relevant to us as yoga teachers and what we should be thinking aboutwhen opening our classes to as wide a range of students as possible. We acknowledged that we also have to keep to what our certification level permits us to teach and sometimes this brings equity dilemmas, for example of having to turn away a disabled student because of not being a therapy teacher or because of teaching in a hired space that simply doesn’t have disabled access and not being able to afford a space that does. It is good to have these discussions and good to be part of a wider community where we can air such subjects and seek support and ideas from other teachers in our local community, although we also acknowledged that the geographical area covered by IYS is so vast there often is not a nearby body of support for more remote teachers to draw on.
Bev Appleby then taught Parivrtta Trikonasana and Marichyasana 3 to the 30-55 age group “with various issues” (all sorts of things can happen at this stage of life, including pregnancy), finding ways to use her assistant to demonstrate asanas from different angles to help further students’ understanding, and Sharon Clarke, who moved to Sussex from Bristol a few years ago,then stepped up to teach the “middle aged” group Adho Mukha Vrksasana and Urdhva Dhanurasana. At this stage of life our bodies might surprise us by presenting problems perhaps for the first time or generally becoming “creakier”; perhaps we might start to lose confidence as bodies start ageing and the menopause brings challenges. These two asanas can be a challenge even to think about let alone do and Sharon brought a clear, calm and encouraging tone to her teaching whichwas reassuring for students. Here the role of assistant was helpful in fetching extra props and helping to make sure students knew how to use them as instructed - an extra pair of eyes to see that the teacher’s instructions were followed and to lend a hand where needed or even just to stand near a less confi dent student. With time running out and no one looking keen to jump upand teach the older age group, Cathy ran through some considerations for these types of classes, with many valuable contributions from the room particularly on how to approach inversions as students get older. I have to say that this gave me the confidence, a couple of days after the EOL day, to persuade all eight of my “slower paced” class students, including a few newer students, into chair Sarvangasana. They all managed it and they all said how great they felt for it. But I have to say, I keptthinking how lovely it would be to have an assistant!
It can be quite daunting to have to get together with a bunch of other teachers, some of whom you may not know, and be put on the spot to teach, and there has been a lot of work in the background by the IY(UK) professional development committee on how to make these days more enjoyable and supportive to all teachers.
I think IYS did a good job of this! Thanks to Cathy for hosting and running this year’s EOL day, for taking time to compile a useful booklet to accompany the afternoon and for working to create a positive and helpful atmosphere for learning.
A CELEBRATION OF 40 YEARS AND GURUJI’S BIRTHDAY AT IYENGAR YOGA LONDON
Saturday 14th December 2024
By Helen Ayling
I have been going to Iyengar Yoga London since 2008 when I started training to be an Iyengar Yoga Teacher. After passing the then two part assessments for the Introductory certifi cate in 2010, I continued to train there for the Junior Intermediate Certificates 1,2 and 3, I consider it to be my second yoga home and I have made some life time friends and colleagues that continue to be important now my training for assessments is over for the time being, I regularly attend teachers’ Teaching Skills workshops with Penny Chaplin so the IYL is still part of my Teaching life.
This celebration marked 40 years of Iyengar Yoga London – originally called the Iyengar yoga Institute – in Maida Vale, which developed out of the strength of Iyengar yoga in London in the 1970s. From 1968, yoga was taught under the aegis of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA). While there were many requests for yoga classes, Peter McIntosh, the head of Physical Education in ILEA was anxious that the “mystical” and “spiritual” parts of yoga should not be taught under government subsidy.
After a chance conversation with Hephzibah Menuhin (the violinist) at a dinner party, McIntosh decided to research
Mr. Iyengar’s method of teaching yoga more thoroughly and eventually concluded that it was appropriate to be taught under ILEA. This was a point made by Abhijata Sridhar Iyengar in May when she held a Q&A session at the IYL before the convention, stating that Iyengar Yoga has not been taught as and is not ‘religious’. This was in response to a question asked by me as to whether chanting Kirtan and Mantra have a place in Iyengar Yoga. In conclusion, she said that as happens India, we could embrace the practices of chanting and mantra and that Kirtan is used and can be used for celebration alongside the practice of Iyengar Yoga.
1971 to 1979 was a critical phase in the history of Iyengar yoga in London, when over 150 teachers were trained at the Paddington Institute of PE under the guidance of Silva Mehta. During this period there were no formal assessments. Would-be teachers attended the weekly training sessions and waited for Mr. Iyengar’s annual visit to be told if they might teach.
However, most of the yoga under ILEA was done in very poor conditions. Often the teachers did not get a choice of rooms; draughts, noise, poor and dirty floors and no equipment were normal for London students of yoga at this period. Mr. Iyengar’s students wanted to have a dedicated space in which to practise and teach yoga. Such a space could provide specialised classes for children, the elderly and people with medical problems that were not possible under ILEA. A dedicated building for teaching Iyengar yoga could make use of special equipment Mr. Iyengar was using in Pune and generate further interest in yoga.To further these aims and – above all – to promote Mr. Iyengar’s teaching, the South East England Iyengar yoga Institute (SEEIYI) was founded in 1979. But SEEIYI was an Institute in name and newsletter only, since for four years there was no physical building for it to call home.
Peter Ballard, Guri Brett, Genie Hammond, Silva Mehta and Silvia Prescott, amongst many others, were all important in finding a building for the Institute to inhabit and in raising the money to make it possible. It took a lot of sweat and creativity from the teachers and dedicated pupils to raise the money needed for a deposit and to prove there were sufficient incoming funds for a mortgage. Considering that Iyengar Yoga London now has hundreds of students coming through the doors every week, it is hard to believe that this kind of groundwork was necessary to fund the first building.
Perhaps it is even harder to believe that simple jumble sales and coffee mornings could have led to such a beautiful space dedicated to the practice of yoga.
On the site of the present centre, the building had previously been used as an artist’s studio space and was purchased for £95,000. Funds of around £30,000 were gathered in donations and a mortgage was obtained for the remaining amount. The mortgage was partially secured on Genie Hammond’s own home. The building needed a lot of refurbishing before it could be used as a yoga studio and this labour was largely done by volunteers. For many years much of the teaching and administrative work was also done unpaid. In particular, Silva Mehta and her son and daughter, Shyam and Mira ensured that the Institute ran on a daily basis.
May 1984 was a landmark in the history of Iyengar yoga in Maida Vale, and Mr. Iyengar came to London to celebrate the opening of the first Iyengar yoga Institute.
On the 14th December 2024 Iyengar Yoga London held a celebratory day to mark Guruji’s birthday and 40 years of the centre. Members also said goodbye to the manager Alan and welcomed the new manager, Lucy Morris.
Lois Steinberg taught a two-hour class as did Penny Chaplin. I was invited to bring kirtan (a traditional bhakti yoga musical practice involving chanting) to the IYL in celebration of this event. This is a practice I have been doing for about 5 years and I was delighted to be asked.
Penny spoke to us after her workshop about these early days, when the teachers helped raise funds to be able to open the centre through jumble sales, coffee mornings, donations and yoga demonstrations. The original building had a mezzanine space over the main hall where Guruji would stay when he came to England. The new building, housing the centre that we know now, was opened in September 1993.
IN MEMORY OF FELICITY GOODSON
by Sallie Sullivan and Linzi Kent
The Community of Yogis in Sussex and beyond were saddened by the loss of our dear Felicity on 2nd January 2025. She had been a wonderful teacher for many years having shown great knowledge of Iyengar yoga therapy when suffering
two hip replacement some years back. Felicity cycled everywhere, often some miles to get to IYS workshops. She contributed poems regularly to the IYS Newsletter. Her first profession was acting. She was a great compere for the IYS 30th anniversary event. She typically embraced the philosophy of yoga and we will miss her, but she told us not to be sad.
I think she is enjoying her next adventure!
Sallie Sullivan knew Felicity for many years and shares these memories with us -
Felicity did her yoga teacher training at the South London centre with Sylvia Prescott and Penny Chaplin in the 1990's. Her first career was as an actor - Simon Brett wrote a one-woman play for her about environmental issues. She often played the principal boy (traditionally a trouser role) in panto. She had a terrific singing voice.
She thought that acting and some resulting slips and falls resulted in her later hip problems.
She moved to Sussex over 20 years ago to concentrate on studying and teaching yoga. She had both hips replaced. She unexpectedly developed an inflammatory condition after the second op but was never daunted. She would arrive by train at many a convention with her yoga kit in her bike panniers. She came to class with me for 20 years. She was dedicated to her practice and teaching.
She is sadly missed as a colleague and as an inspirational teacher and a fierce environmental campaigner.
Linzi lives in Eastbourne and is a Yoga Teacher. She knew and worked alongside Felicity and she shared
this memory of one of the mass cycle-rides Felicity used to lead.
I cycled along behind Felicity as she led fellow cyclists like the pied piper through Eastbourne. Singing away
through her megaphone encouraging people to get on their bikes, save our planet & live healthy lives.
Felicity had founded the Bespoke cycle campaign group in Eastbourne. The last mass bike ride she did (picture
attached) was the biggest! The movement was growing and she was beaming.
She led a short yoga class for the riders: women, men and children stood firmly in their warrior pose as she instructed us to root down and stand strong.
My dear friend and teacher was such an inspiration to so many. Her passion and dedication will live on through us all.
Here are a couple of her poems below.
SPACES IN BETWEEN by Felicity Goodson
There are spaces between all words
Ever spoken, read or heard
Between one thought and the next
The event to journalist text
The seeing and the seen
What has and might have been
Those who want and those in need
What is plenty, what is greed
Twixt soil, the falling seed
The rain and the fl owering mead.
Those spaces hold our being
The Human one invoking
Without borders, colour, race
Infused in this Earths grace
In the spaces in between
Glows a freedom seldom seen
Love’s hum within our age
Love’s song, our lineage
Intimate bonds to one another
The dependence on Earth Mother
In the spaces in between
In the spaces in between.
IN MEMORY OF ROWENA CAGER
By Brian Ingram
Shortly before the publication of the Newsletter we heard of the passing of Rowena Cager who died peacefully in her sleep on 24th January at the age of 80.
Rowena was a Yoga teacher and a friend who lived in a beautiful house in Ditchling. She was active on the IYS committee when I joined it and organised the very first IYS workshop I taught in at Westmeston. I will remember her as a calm, social, positive presence. I will recall many trips to workshops or classes at the Brighton Natural Health Centre. She always asked about me or my sons before talking about herself. After attending her funeral in Ditchling, along with several of her past students, I learnt that she had been born in Hove, was brought up in the countryside, lived in France and Spain (was fluent in both languages), and was busy renovating a property in Portugal before she died. She had been married twice but marriage didn’t agree with her and she preferred to steer her own ship. She had a life well-lived.
SPRING MEDITATIONS by Felicity Goodson
Against the frost, frail Crocus opens
Petal heart defying shards of grass
Reaching through ether
To Ancient sun.
Snowdrop bows her modest beauty
Bride white
To generous Earth.
Daffodils declare with golden trumpets
The passing of winters ways
As spring breezes choreograph Daff s dance
Against the tussock, and moss bank where
Primrose, pale in mellow, yellow, milky stillness
Meditates on cushioned leaves
On being Primrose.
This poem was inspired by time spent with the children at last years’ Pushpanjali event.
There will be a memorial held for Felicity on Thursday 3rd April at 2pm, St Marys Church, Old Town, Eastbourne, followed by tea and cake at Gidredge Manor (across the road).
WHAT IS KIRTAN?
By Helen Ayling
Kirtan KIRTAYANTAH (Bhavaghad Gita 9.14) meaning singing or chanting, call, recite, praise, glorify. It is a practice which uses the vibration of sound and mantra. It is given as a devotional practice in the Bhavagad Gita and traditionally comes from Hinduism and is seen as part of the Sikh devotional practices.
BG 9.14:
satataṁ kīrtayanto māṁ
yatantaś ca dṛḍha-vratāḥ
namasyantaś ca māṁ bhaktyā
nitya-yuktā upāsate
Always singing
My divine glories, striving with great
determination,
and humbly bowing down before Me,
they constantly worship Me in loving devotion.
satatam—always; kīrtayantaḥ—singing divine glories;
mām—Me; yatantaḥ—striving; cha—and; dṛiḍha-vratāḥ—
with great determination; namasyantaḥ—humbly bowing
down; cha—and; mām—Me; bhaktyā—loving devotion;
nitya-yuktāḥ—constantly united; upāsate—worship.
Commentary
Having said that the great souls engage in His devotion, Shree Krishna now explains how they do bhakti. He says that devotees become attached to kīrtan as a means of practising their devotion and enhancing it. The chanting of the glories of the Lord is called kīrtan,
Kirtan brings the community together to sing. Sometimes this is led by call and response, and sometimes everyone sings together. Usually there is a simple mantra which is repeated. In the west, science is catching up with thousands of years of ancient wisdom regarding the chanting of mantras and its benefits to help reduce mental ailments such as stress and anxiety and bring holistic wellbeing.
To me it’s a practice for cutting through the idea of separation, for connecting to our hearts and connecting to the moment through sound. For it’s when we cooperate and work together in devotion that our hearts are most open to the compassion of the Divine. I have found the practice very healing Personally, as have those who have practised with me.
When the mantra or chant is repeated, it brings us to the sound and vibration of sound; this brings us to be present. The mind is eased from suffering. There we understand the yogic aspect of Kirtan.
I play a harmonium which is a traditional Indian instrument with bellows and a keyboard, similar to an accordion. You may be familiar with an old-fashioned Piano Accordion where the bellows are operated by foot pedals. The harmonium has stoppers which are pulled out to open the airflow to a drone reed providing harmonic resonance. This establishes a tonality which iscontinuously sounded throughout the piece of music or CHANT. This helps me and others partaking in the kirtan find musical harmony together.
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We are always interested in any archive material or memories of days past. ALSO THE IY(UK) ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A NATIONAL ARCHIVE AND WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED TO HEAR OR SEE ANY RELEVANT MATERIAL. Randall Evans is the IYS member on the national IY(UK) archives committee. Please send any material or photos to him at randallevans1@gmail.com
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BKS Iyengar was born in Bellur in Southern India. After being introduced to yoga by his Guru T.K.V. Krishnamacharya, he went on to study and teach yoga for over 80 years. He taught on all five continents winning global respect and admiration. His books on yoga have become classics, and he is recognised as a major contributor to the popularity of yoga in both the west and east. Iyengar® Yoga, named after him and taught in his name, has become a widely practised form of yoga with teachers and organisations in more than 40 countries around the world. Sussex was one of B.K.S. Iyengar’s earliest centres.
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Iyengar Yoga Workshop
with guest teacher
Khaled Kendsi
Saturday 12th April, 2025
St. Mary’s Church Hall
12 Compton Ave., Goring-by-Sea
Worthing, West Sussex BN12 4UJ
2:00pm - 5:00pm
£28 IYS members/ £36 guest participants.
£46 to join IYS and attend as a member.
Early Booking is recommended.
Please bring your own basic yoga props and mat to this event.
IYS is delighted to welcome Khaled Kendsi from North London to teach our next workshop in Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex. Khaled works in the NHS as a cardiac physiologist and is qualified in Immediate Life Support. Khaled teaches regular
classes at Iyengar Yoga Maida Vale (IYMV) in London where he has been practicing and studying Iyengar yoga since 1998. On his several visits to RIMYI in Pune India he has assisted in the medical classes. Khaled has an interest in Yoga therapy and has studied with Stephanie Quirk.
Booking Information
1. Email Cathy the IYS Events Secretary at cathyrogersevans@gmail.com with your full name and contact details indicating if
you are a member or guest of IYS and your payment amount.
2. Make a bank transfer for the total amount of your booking. As a reference please be use “Khaled ” when you make your
transfer. Co-operative Bank Details: Account Name: Iyengar Yoga Sussex Sort code: 08 92 99 Account no: 65675373
3. You will receive your confirmation of your booking by email from Cathy.
If you have any questions contact Cathy Rogers Evans Tel. 01903 762850.
If you wish to join IYS contact Randall Evans, IYS Membership Secretary or if you have a question about membership:
randallevans1@gmail.com.
Cancellations policy: Refunds given in full if cancellation is received 5 days prior to the date of the workshop.
If you wish to join IYS contact Randall Evans, IYS Membership Secretary or if you have a question about membership:
randallevans1@gmail.com. If you are experiencing financial hardship please write to: Brian Ingram, 51 Meadow Lane,
Burgess Hill, RH15 9HZ with details.
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Celebrating 30+ Years!
Iyengar Yoga Sussex was established in 1992 for the purpose of promoting, educating and maintaining the standard of educating and maintaining the standard of Yoga as defined by BKS Iyengar, in Sussex.
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