Chill Yoga

10/10/2026

09/30/2026

Life is too short to take yoga seriously 😂

09/25/2026

Protect your peace, stay grounded, and remember—you don’t have to carry every energy that comes your way. 🌿🧘‍♀️ Choose what you allow into your space. 🤍

09/24/2026

YES !! 👏👏

In yoga, the goal isn’t to move like everyone else—it’s to listen to your own body and honor your own journey. 🧘‍♀️🌿

Your pose doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s. Your pace doesn’t have to match theirs.

Your mat. Your body. Your practice. Choose what feels true to you. 💛

09/18/2026

She’s an amazing teacher !! She has been mine for years… if you can take any workshop she offers. I promise; it will be so worth it ! 🙏🏻😊
Namaste 🌻

Presence is not something you find. It is something you practice.

After teaching yoga for 54 years across six continents in nearly every state in this country, I still come back to the same idea:

Presence is the beginning of our spiritual journey.

That is the real subject of this workshop. Not a new pose or a better cue. Just the slow work of waking up to what is already here.

Padma Studio, Fairfax, CA
October 22-24
10am - 5pm

Register here: https://www.padmastudiofairfax.com/events-workshops-trainings/6w2cvz7o89u9kzclozw5jek8qhtaxy

09/14/2026

First, watch.

Before any pranayama — before Ujjayi, before Viloma — comes a quieter instruction.

Watch the breath.

Not change it.
Watch it.

Geeta S. Iyengar named it clearly:
“Pranayama is not breath control.
It is the expansion of the life force.
You do not control the breath —
you remove the obstacles that restrict it.”
— Geeta S. Iyengar, Yoga: A Gem for Women, Chapter on Pranayama

Not control.
Removal.

The breath already knows how to breathe. Our work is to stop standing in its way.

At BKS Iyengar Yogashala, this begins simply.

You sit.
You settle.
You watch.

Is the inhalation long, or short?
Is the exhalation smooth, or does it catch?
Where does the breath stop — at the chest, the throat, the belly?

No technique yet.
Just attention.

Only when the breath is observed, and the body prepared through āsana, do we begin to shape it.

The breath is powerful. It deserves respect. Pranayama is learned progressively, under a qualified teacher.

Before you sit for pranayama, ask yourself:
Can you watch ten breaths without trying to change a single one?

What do you notice when you stop trying to control the breath?

We read every one.