Spotlighting Level 3 CIYTs – Understanding “Double Actions” Finding Balance in Imbalance with Peggy Kelley

IYNAUS is delighted to present Spotlighting Level 3 CIYTs.

IYNAUS scheduled a day each month to spotlight one Level 3 CIYT, offering them an opportunity to contribute their time and teach a one-and-a-half-hour class.

March 22, 11:00 a.m. ET – Spotlighting Level 3 CIYTs – Understanding “Double Actions” Finding Balance in Imbalance with Peggy Kelley

This class will be dedicated to George Purvis’s memory and will honor his legacy in Texas and around the country. We will work toward Hanumanasana in his light.

Double actions are subtleties that B.K.S. Iyengar taught, especially around the hip and shoulder joints. We will explore these and see how we might better embody them skillfully based on our body/mind. Rather than working with rigid rules for all yoga students in all poses, we will seek a ratio that will create “sthira and sukha/steadiness and delight” uniquely for us.

About Peggy

Lucky to have found Iyengar’s Light on Yoga before she turned 20, Peggy has continued to study the Iyengar method wherever she has lived since that discovery (Massachusetts, Canada, Texas, India, Mexico). She was one of the original board members of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the US in 1990. Peggy continues to serve the associations in the US and Mexico as an assessor in the education process. She has traveled to the Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute in Pune, India, multiple times to study, first with B.K.S. Iyengar, then with Geeta and Prashant Iyengar, and now with Abhijata Iyengar.

She taught Iyengar Yoga in Austin for decades. She founded and directed Austin Iyengar Yoga, a nonprofit entity that grants scholarships to students for studies. She operated a yoga studio in Austin for 15 years and now teaches in other studios, including her home studio in New York, where she now lives. She has also taught in Mexico, Canada, Central America, and Europe.

Geeta Iyengar’s teaching inspired her Ayurveda studies in Pune, India. In the late 90s, Peggy met Swamini Maya Ma (formerly Bri Maya Tiwari) and studied Ayurveda with her at the Wise Earth School in North Carolina. She has also studied with David Frawley and, in 2005, completed the course Dr. Jay Apte of the American Institute of Ayurveda, leading to her certification as a practitioner (CAP). In 2012, her book Physical Poetry: Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda was published by Durga Press in Austin, with a second edition coming this year.

Member Price
Free to members as a member benefit. Donations appreciated.

Non-member Price 
$108 This price includes access to all classes in the series and an IYNAUS membership.
$30 for a single class for non-members

Recordings
IYNAUS will send the class recording to all registered participants as soon as possible.
Recordings will be posted on the member benefits page one month after the live event. These classes and recordings count as Continuing Education hours.