LARA WARREN-IYENGAR YOGA TEACHER

Contact Lara: 718 349 1066

Level of Certification: Introductory II

Studying yoga since 1986.

Teaching yoga since 1994.

Primary teacher:
Mary Dunn

Background outside yoga:
BS degree in Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia, England.
Recently was a fulltime environmental grass-roots organizer and educator in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

My other main focus outside Iyengar Yoga is Flamenco guitar.

Teaching philosophy:
To help develop the ability of each student, to help them realize and enhance their strengths, and ultimately to help them become self-sufficient in their own practice and the guardians of their own health and happiness.

A favorite quote about yoga: "The flexibility and stability we gain in asanas is the living symbol of the suppleness we gain in relation to life's challenges and problems." -- B. K. S. Iyengar.

Advice to potential students:Yoga can only be learned through direct experience, so don't look for experience at the front of the classroom. Use the instructor's words and demonstrations to hone your inner awareness and search for experience and understanding within your own body.
Practice, practice, practice. And be patient with yourself.

Describe the unique character of the Iyengar method?
What makes it your choice of yoga?
It is the precision and intelligence of the Iyengar method and the high caliber of training that attracted me to Iyengar Yoga. Iyengar Yoga is a complete practice: philosophically through its use of Patanjalis Yoga Sutras as one of its main sacred texts; physically through its all-encompassing approach to the asanas; mentally through its development of concentration and meditation in movement and through the practice of pranayama, and spiritually through the profound effects of the eight legs of yoga in balancing and informing one's entire life. Iyengar Yoga gives its practitioners what they need, bringing stability to weak areas, bringing fluidity and flexibility to immobile and stiff areas, bringing mental calm, clarity and vigor to confused, agitated or dull states of mind.

Several adjectives which describe your teaching style:
Dynamic
Cheerful