Posts by Jennie Williford CIYT

The second level of wisdom according to Patanjali is the cessation of suffering. Once we turn our attention and awareness toward our own Self in the first stage, we are…

As we look a little deeper into the 27th sutra of the second chapter of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it is helpful to again state that this journey is…

The term “sadhana” in yoga is an important one to understand. In the west we tend to translate this as “practice”, or even “disciplined practice”, but that just doesn’t seem…

I have decided to try to get a blog out daily, even a short one, during this strange time. We want you to know that we are striving to make…

For our April 26th Yoga Sutra discussion we will be reading Sutras II.4, II.5, and II.6. This will begin our deep dives into each of the afflictions (klesas) we face…

The Yoga Place is now officially online, so I guess you could say we are “live” as of this week. But, as students of yoga, we also are trying to…

Yes, these are crazy times we are living in at the moment. But, I have to say that the Iyengar Yoga Global Community might be the fastest and the strongest…

“Alignment” seems to be a hot topic or at least a buzz word in yoga circles these days. For Iyengar Yogis though, it is old news, and for us it…