Iyengar Yoga with Tara

Namaste.

Whether this is the beginning or middle of your interest in yoga, you are very welcome. My name is Tara Suilen Duffy. I have practiced Iyengar yoga since 2000 and taught since 2010 in Beijing, Galway, Hong Kong and Taipei, and now Providence.  Sharing some of what I have learned in these 20+ years and seeing how even one hour of yoga a week can bring about a positive change in a student is what inspires me for every class. I feel fortunate to have come across Iyengar yoga at one of my first yoga classes in London. While I tried some other methods, I remain dedicated to this precise style of yoga, named after B.K.S. Iyengar, for the focus on alignment and safety, and for the myriad ways to approach yoga asana, pranayama, and more.  While perhaps many associate Iyengar yoga with bodily alignment alone, in fact, it encompasses the aligning of body, breath, and mind. Safety means this method is accessible for all. 

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Three years after starting yoga, I began my initial teacher training. As work and life changes brought me from Europe to Asia and back again, I had the great fortune to be able to further my study with many senior Iyengar teachers based in London, Paris, and Hong Kong.  On-going study is crucial to the development of one's own practice, even after one starts teaching. I was fortunate to be able to study with members of the Iyengar family in London in 2002, China in 2011, and Pune, India in December of 2015, 2016 and 2018. I am certified at Level 3 (JI III) in the Iyengar method. I am a member of Iyengar Yoga (UK) and Munster Iyengar Yoga. In my previous professional life, I worked as a journalist and as a nonprofit development consultant in Europe and China.

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For more on B.K.S. Iyengar and Iyengar Yoga, please read on here.

Geeta Iyengar, daughter of B.K.S. Iyengar, yoga teacher and mentor to so many, passed on 16 December 2018. I wrote a short piece on what it was like to have been among the group of more than 1,200 students she was vibrantly teaching just three days before, and to have been there at the centenary of her father's birth on the 14th. She gave everything she could to her students, right to the end. 

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