October President’s message
Dear fellow yogis of the Southeast region!
I hope you are transitioning to what you feel is your “normal” with ease, good health, and tranquility.
We are so grateful with the 4 candidates who would like to volunteer for the Board term 2022-2025. Please go to our website to read about their bios and vote for them.
We are so proud of the interviews that are up on our website, containing valuable information, including great pieces about marketing. Please go to our blog and check them out for yourself!
Last but not least, we are excited to announce that our last special online event of the year in December will address this important question: Can You Earn A Living Teaching Iyengar Yoga? Learn from Experienced Iyengar Yoga Teachers and Get Your Questions Answered. The speakers, format and exact date and time will be coming soon. You can’t miss it.
Much love and Namaste,
Mariana Scotti
2021 IYASE President
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IYASE Newsletter Tour of our states:
Southeast Florida
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Our newsletter spotlight is on Southeast Florida for this issue. There are 36 CIYTs in this area, including 15 Level 2 and four Level 3 CIYTs. |
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Bobbi Goldin (CIYT Level 3) |
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Setubandha sarvangasana - A pose for all the body
I love sharing this pose often! It opens the chest, tones the legs, strengthens the buttocks, and strengthens the pelvic floor. The block can be higher or lower.
When I started the Yoga Insitute of Miami 43 years ago, we were the first Iyengar Yoga studio in Florida and I believe I was the first certified instructor in Florida.
When we went to Zoom, I changed the name to Yoga Miami - Bobbi Goldin. It has been a journey of great joy and fun with love. A blessing!
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Lessons from Bobbi
by Tora Bueno
My first impression of Miami was everyone wore heels and makeup, spoke Spanish, and drove clean new cars.
The Yoga Institute was in my neighborhood. Outside sat a 1990s Toyota Prius with a Coexist and cat lover stickers. Inside, the walls were covered with photos of a curly-haired blonde through the ages: doing trikonasana on the Great Wall of China, posing by lily pads with Mr. Iyengar, also lilac paint, ceramics, Ganesh t-shirts and tie-dyed leggings for sale. The owner Bobbi Goldin had a perfect gold pedicure and matching tan. She taught me to give thanks for all the good in my life and to accept thanks for the good I did. She taught me to put on my big girl panties and love Miami.
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Edwin Bergman (CIYT Level 2)
Yoga tip #1: Ardha Chandrasana
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Edwin is the founder of Yoga That, based in Miami Beach, FL. Find the schedule of online and in-person classes here. Keep reading for yoga tip #2!
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Ruth Ann Bradley (CIYT Level 2) |
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Ruth Ann Bradley is the founder and owner of the Yoga Institute of Broward, one of South Florida’s premier authentic Iyengar Yoga studios. Serving the yoga community for 25 years has been rewarding and challenging, especially navigating through a pandemic. Our classes are offered online and in person with group classes and private sessions.
October in Florida
Those of us in South Florida don’t feel much with seasonal changes. There are subtle changes such as the slight drop in humidity that brings hope for cooler temperatures in the months to come. After the brilliant show of leaves in the north brings the browns and grays of winter, we experience a whole new blooming of plants and flowers full of color against blue skies. As most of the country is winding down for the winter and falling into their hibernation mode, we are gearing up for a busier season. Snowbirds arrive to fill up spaces in classes and enjoy their winter in a sunny paradise. Regular students’ schedules open up to attend more regularly after summer vacations to cooler destinations.
October Focus at the Yoga Institute
During the month of October, our students are having fun learning the Sanskrit names of the poses. Each week student receives a practice sequence that accompanies a list of the asana names in Sanskrit and English. The classes for the week are based on the practice sequence appropriate for the various level of students and classes. Repeating the names out loud, seeing the word and doing the pose has been helpful. It’s never too late to learn asana or Sanskrit!
Find the Yoga Institute of Broward here.
Find classes by Ruth Ann and the other teachers here.
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Rosa Santana (CIYT Level 3) |
I discovered Iyengar Yoga in 1995 in Hallandale Beach when my aerobics teacher didn’t show up. Reluctantly, I walked into a small room with bikes on one side. I wasn’t going to stay, but two senior citizens and a tiny woman with a sweet smile welcomed me and asked if I was there for the yoga class. The teacher was Marilyn Rubin, and I had no idea this class would shape me for the rest of my life.
Read the Story of YogaRosa here. Find Rosa here. |
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Michela Franci (CIYT Level 2)
Salamba Sarvangasana on a chair
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Michela's path in yoga started more than 20 years ago, when she was a student at Florida International University. She met Bobbi Goldin, who suggested she study with Gabriela Giubilaro in Florence, Italy. Returning to Italy, Michela studied and trained with Gabriela. She has taught in Italy and the US and teaches online as well.
Read Michela's story here. Read Michela's article on Anti-aging Yoga here. |
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Katrin Loveland
CIYT (Level 2)
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Katrin has been teaching Iyengar yoga in Miami for many years. She teaches primarily on zoom these days. You can email her here or find her on instagram: @katrinloveland. |
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Mariana Scotti (Level 1) is originally from Argentina and has been living in Miami, FL for 20 years.
She mainly teaches in person in Miami Shores at MPower Gym, Miami Shores Recreation Center and from Brockway Memorial Library at Optimist Park. Since the pandemic she has also been teaching online.
Mariana loves teaching Yoga to new students and seeing them feel better from the inside out. She has a deep calling to spread Iyengar Yoga and also for volunteering. She served as Vice President of IYASE and is in her second year as President. She said, "I have met great people and loved working with and supporting the wonderful team."
She loves bringing yoga practitioners together and making the Iyengar community growing bigger and stronger. That is why she founded the Iyengar Yoga Festival Miami, which happened in person and then online during the pandemic. She is interested in keeping this event going. Stay tuned!
Recently Mariana and Laura Plofchan co-taught two Yoga Workshops. Mariana said that team teaching was a hit with teachers and students alike.
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Find Mariana on her website or email her. You can also find her on Instagram: @marianascottiyoga and @iyengaryogafest
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iYoga Delray Beach is the only Iyengar yoga studio in Palm Beach County. Owner Colleen Gallagher is a CIYT (Level 3).
All teachers are certified in the Iyengar method; Stephanie Dodge, Juli Kagan, Laura Plofchan, and Jill Frankel. Classes are infused with compassion, creativity, and joy.
iYoga offers in studio as well as zoom classes. The schedule includes general and beginner level classes along with a weekly chair and rope class. iYoga also hosts a popular monthly, 2 hour Sunday Yoga Special.
FUN FACT: Colleen established The Yoga Room which resided above the Starbucks on Atlantic Avenue at Federal Highway from 1993-1999. The rent was only $300 and is currently $8000!
Find IYoga Delray Beach here. |
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Juli Kagan (CIYT) and Stephanie Dodge (CIYT) |
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Just Be Friendly…
Every morning, over the past year and more, CIYTs Stephanie Dodge and Juli Kagan have reached out to each other by text message with the greeting: “Good morning 💚🌴.” It is a sentiment shared in honor of their love of Yoga Sutra 1:33 and the first word in the sutra, Maitrī, pronounced “my tree,” meaning friendliness.
They have been calling each other Maitrī to honor their joy of learning together and sharing their love of sacred texts and the profound teachings those texts offer. To Stephanie and Juli one of the most important lessons they have learned is simple: Just Be Friendly.
In Yoga Sutra 1:33, Patanjali offers a method of achieving an open heart and a calm mind; by being friendly to those who are happy, compassionate to those who are hurting, joyful to those who embody noble qualities and indifferent to those whose vices oppose your own values. (Stephanie & Juli)
Stephanie and Juli teach at iYogaDelrayBeach.com. When you join them for class, you are sure to be greeted with abundant friendliness! |
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I love to teach back bends especially those with the support of the chair. I enjoy watching the process that my students go through. First in the preparation of releasing the groins, stabilizing the pelvis, elongating the side body, and strengthening shoulders and upper back. When they actually find themselves in poses like: dhanurasana, chair viparita dandasana, and urdhva dhanurasana … it all comes together. I ask my students “Did you see God?”
Laura currently serves as the Vice President of IYASE.
Read Laura's article and see her schedule here. |
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Laura's teaching montage: |
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Stephanie Weisenberg, CIYT |
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As a mother of a 13 year-old daughter I never know what each day will bring. The one constant is getting on my mat each morning. One day after I drove her to school I decided to have fun with her Squishmallows. I took a Squishmallow from her bedroom and put it into Sirsasana and Gomukhasana and took photos, then texted them to her during the day. She had a good laugh. More by Stephanie here.
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Stephanie is a CIYT in Plantation, Florida. She has studied under Ruth Ann Bradley and Colleen Gallagher. Stephanie teachers at the Yoga Institute of Broward. You can e-mail her here.
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Edwin Bergman (CIYT Level 2)
Yoga tip #2: Vrksasana
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**For Teachers and Studio Owners**
Please fill out our very short survey to help us publicize you and your classes.
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Our December newsletter will feature Iyengar Yoga in North and West Florida! Attention teachers in those areas! Please send information and photos about classes, yoga and life in North and Northwest Florida.
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Upcoming Workshops and Events |
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Asana, Pranayama, Philosophy weekend workshop with Dörthe Braun (in person and zoom) |
Friday, October 29, 2021 -
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Sutra 2.46 "Stirah, (steadiness) sukham (ease) asanam" These concepts will be explored through various asanas, pranayama and a philosophy session to bring steadiness and ease on and beyond the mat.
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Stay Put to Open Up
with Cindy Dollar
Friday 6-8pm
Saturday 9:30am-12:30pm & 2-4pm
Sunday 9:30am-12:30pm
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Cindy Dollar has been helping people live more flexible and balanced lives since 1985 and is a certified Iyengar yoga instructor. Cindy has been voted one of the Best Yoga Teachers in Western North Carolina several times. She is the former owner of Asheville's One Center Yoga.
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Thank You and Namaskar,
Sara Agelasto, IYASE Continuing Education Chair
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