VICTORIA yogacentrenewsletter March / April 2005 March Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmony of the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true Yoga. – B.K.S. Iyengar IYENGAR YOGA July 11-16, 2005 August 15-19 With Leslie Hogya, With Shirley Daventry French Ann Kilbertus This program is for teachers certified at Teacher and Linda Benn the Introductory Level II or higher. This six -day course will build your Shirley is a long-time student of B.K.S. Training understanding of teaching Iyengar Yoga Iyengar who awarded her a senior teaching based on the foundation of good credential. She has been teaching yoga for practice. Leslie, Ann and Linda are thirty years and is one of North America’s Intensives experienced teachers certified at the most experienced teachers in the Iyengar Junior Intermediate Level III through the tradition. Shirley has been training teachers Iyengar Association of Canada (I.Y.A.C) in Victoria and throughout Canada for and are qualified I.Y.A.C. assessors. many years. They are involved in teacher training Both Intensives will include daily classes in Victoria as well as assisting teachers in asana and pranayama, the art and in outlying British Columbia and Yukon science of teaching and peer teaching. communities. Philosophy and anatomy will be included. Preference will be given to I.Y.A.C As in previous years, Iyengar Yoga teachers members and those preparing for from other countries are also invited to assessment in the near future. apply. I.Y.A.C. members will get priority. Fees: $560 + GST for VYC members $600 + GST for non members Registration opens February 23 To register contact the Victoria Yoga Centre, 202-919 Fort Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3K3 3250 386-YOGA(9642) A deposit of $150 will reserve a place. Full payment is due June 2, 2005. If you cancel before June 2 your deposit less 10% will be refunded. After June 2, refunds will only be given if your space can be filled. Upcoming WORKSHOPShort IYAC Assessment Dates 50+ Workshop: Backs and Hips Teachers: Leslie Hogya & Wendy Boyer 2005 June 17-19, 2005 Saturday, March 5, 1:00 - 3:30pm Introductory I/II Courtney-Comox BC Fees: Members: $30 +GST, Illumination Non-members, $35 +GST - Aphorisms of B.K.S. Iyengar Oct 21-23, 2005 To register contact (Victoria Yoga Centre, 2003) Introductory I/II the Victoria Yoga Centre, London ON 202 - 919 Fort Street, Victoria, BC V8V 3K3 This beautiful book was produced by (250) 386-YOGA (9642) the VYC for Mr. Iyengar’s 85th Dec 9-11, 2005 Refunds will only be offered if your space birthday celebration.Get yours today. can be filled and are subject to a $10 Junior Intermediate I cancellation fee. Available from the Victoria Yoga Centre Montreal QC contents 2 Reflections VICTORIA by Shirley Daventry French yoga centre 6 Canadian Iyengar Yoga Conference NEWSLETTER Opening Address by Dr Geeta S. Iyengar EDITOR Melissa Worth NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE Shirley Daventry French, Lauren Cox, 10 Geeta Iyengar’s 60th Birthday Gwynneth Powell, Greg Sly, Jane Munro, Taimi Mulder, Susan Robinson, Celebration Nancy Searing by Linda Shevloff DESIGN / PRODUCTION Cady Graphics PHOTOGRAPHY Melissa Worth, Corrine Lowen, Leslie Corcos, RIMYI; Photos of 12 Yoganga –Shikshaka – Chakravarti Geeta Iyengar by Nancy Bleck and Susan by Chris Beach Stewart; Photos from Yog-Sadhana by Gaye Barter; Cover Photo: Statue of Patanjali gracing the entrance to the Iyengar home. 14 Setting up in Sana’a ADS / ANNOUNCEMENTS Lauren Cox, Leslie Hogya by Leslie Corcos ILLUSTRATIONS Lauren Cox SCANNING Byron Smith, Taimi Mulder 16 Uttistha Sthiti –Standing Asanas DISTRIBUTION Keiko Alkire, Rosemary Barritt, Krysia Strawczynski Teacher Training Paper by Krisna Zawaduk MEMBERSHIP / MAILING LIST Karin Holtkamp 17 Reflection Practice PRINTING Hillside Printing by Corrine Lowen DEADLINE FOR NEXT ISSUE March 15, 2005 19 Forward Extension Asanas VICTORIA YOGA CENTRE SOCIETY is a non-profit society incorporated under the Societies’ Act of the Province of B.C., whose purpose is “to encourage the physical, mental, and spiritual growth of its members and other < COVER PHOTO LAST ISSUE: Figure of Guruji adorning the gates interested persons of the society at large by the to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute. study and discipline of Yoga.” The Society owes its inspiration to Swami Sivananda Radha and Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar. The Newsletter, published regularly by the VICTORIA YOGA CENTRE SOCIETY, provides current information on events concerning yoga in the Victoria area and the Yasodhara Ashram. Newsletter Advertising Policy (Adopted February 20, 2004) COURSE REGISTRATION: Send contributions, articles, photographs, In keeping with the mandate of the Victoria Yoga Centre drawings, information or suggestions to Society Directors, 2004, to update, review and document Drop in: 202-919 Fort Street, the Victoria Yoga Centre Newsletter: policies and procedures, the newsletter committee submitted a 202-919 Fort Street, Victoria BC V8V 3K3. policy which is a revision of the 1996 policy and has been Victoria, B.C. V8V 3K3 For information on activities and events, adopted by the Board of Directors as follows: call 386-YOGA(9642) or visit our website: Phone: www.victoriayogacentre.bc.ca. 1. Advertisements must not conflict with the aims of the 250 386-YOGA(9642) newsletter of the VYCS. Permission is hereby granted to reprint any of Refund policy: our material, except that copyrighted by the 2. Advertisements must be only for Iyengar Yoga author or artists. When reprinting, please credit Refunds will only be offered if your 3. Priority given to advertisements regarding: this Newsletter and send us two copies of the space can be filled and are subject publication containing our material. Copyright - VYC events to a $10 cancellation fee. material is only available with written permission. - VYC sponsored events The editor/newsletter committee hold the right to - CIYTA events publish or edit all articles at their discretion. - Radha House/ Yasodhara Ashram 1 REFLECTIONS — February / March 2005 n November 2003, two days before I was not be. I had reconfirmed my flight in Pune due to leave Hong Kong for India, I and again in Delhi. Unmoved, the agent told discovered that my entire itinerary for the me that I no longer had a seat and, despite the I ongoing journey had been erased mysteri- business class ticket which he was holding in ously from Thai Air’s computer. Things were his hand, that business class was full. They complicated because my ticket had been issued would see if they could find me a seat in by Air Canada. I never did learn how this coach. I protested louder that I wanted the happened, finding myself caught between Air business class seat which had been assigned to SHIRLEY DAVENTRY FRENCH WAS Canada who said they did not know why Thai me and supposedly confirmed. The Lufthansa AWARDED SENIOR CERTIFICATION had erased my itinerary and Thai, who blamed agent ignored me. FROM B.K.S. IYENGAR. SHE HAS BEEN Air Canada. It was not until the morning of It was the middle of the night. The car TEACHING SINCE 1972 AND FOUNDED my scheduled afternoon departure from Hong which had driven me to the airport had left. I THE VICTORIA YOGA CENTRE IN 1976. SHIRLEY LIVES IN VICTORIA AND Kong that I received confirmation of my had changed all my Indian currency into TEACHES WORLDWIDE. flights to and from Mumbai. Euros for my stopover in Germany. With no This year, the outgoing journey proceeded local money, no telephone, no hotel reserva- smoothly. Again I was staying first in Hong tion, tired and wanting to sleep, I decided to Kong, and must say I was relieved when I stay put and if nothing happened soon, phoned Thai to confirm my flights to India escalate my protestation. How, I was not clear, and all proceeded smoothly. The airlines tell but I was not going to go away. I did ask the you there is no need to reconfirm, but if you agent to write down what it was that Air are flying in Asia, don’t believe them. I have Canada had not done so that I could take it spoken to many travellers who have had up with them on my return. A little later, he similar experiences to mine. told me he had done this on the back of my ticket. If you don’t like disturbance in your life, I stood there. Time passed. About twenty minutes! Once or twice I asked what was stay away from yoga and particularly happening but received no response. Then, just as I was thinking of asking to see a great Masters. supervisor, the man suddenly turned and without a word gave me a boarding pass for It was on the way back that I faced a exactly the seat I had originally been assigned challenge this time. Having cleared the when I bought my ticket. Wordlessly but security you go through to get into the Indira thankfully, I left. Gandhi international terminal at New Delhi, It was not until I had boarded the plane and and put my baggage through the x-ray we had taken off, that I looked at my ticket to machines you must use before any airline will see what the man had written about this accept it, I approached the Lufthansa desk to problem. He had written nothing, and it get a boarding pass for my 3:30 am flight to suddenly occurred to me that my flight had Frankfurt. When I reached the desk and probably been confirmed all along and he might handed over my ticket and passport, I was told have been hoping for a bribe.