At the Annual General Meeting in October 2022, IYAC/ACYI elected a new Board of Directors for the coming year. All of these members serve in a volunteer capacity to provide guidance and leadership for the organisation. Below you can see…
Dear Members, On October 23 2022, the virtual IYAC/ACYI Annual General Meeting was held and was well attended with about fifty people online. We reviewed the activities of the previous year and discussed future plans. If you were…
Many of you may recall that IYAC/ACYI made a gift of yoga to its members in the form of five online classes with Devki Desai from RIMYI in Pune. Many of you, in fact, may be participating in these sessions…
Recently, the the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Association of Vancouver hosted a discussion of yoga philosophy centred on the four pillars of practice - Sraddha (faith), Virya (courage), Smriti (memory) and Samadhi. The senior practitioners leading the discussion were Leslie…
At the recent IYAC/ACYI AGM, a new slate of Directors was elected to the Board overseeing the organisation. The Board provides governance and leadership and does a vast amount of hard work on behalf of the members... all on a…
At the recent IYAC/ACYI AGM, a new slate of Directors was elected to the Board overseeing the organisation. This included a new Director in the role of President. Many of you will have read earlier this year that…
The Honorary Member Award is awarded annually to a member of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Canada/ Association canadienne de Yoga Iyengar under the following criteria: a founding member of IYAC/ACYI who is 70 (minimum), who has made significant…
Linda Shevloff, of Vancouver BC, offers us an article on the unusually heavy rains in Pune this year, written by her friend, Harish Thakkar. My husband, Michael, and I first met Harish Thakkar and his wife, Jyotsna, in 1987. Michael…