yoga roots
I started regular yoga in the early 1980s with Iyengar yoga. This school of yoga taught me about the principles of alignment that are important in an asana (a yoga pose) and the fundamentals of pranyama (breath control) and meditation.
About a decade later, Danny Paradise’s Oxford Astanga workshops inspired me to experience more energy in my yoga practice by incorporating breath co-ordinated movement (vinyasa). I learnt – and am still learning – about the liberating synthesis of asana, bandha (body-tone), dristi (focus) and ujjayi pranyama (deep middle breath) that are central to vinyasa.
My own daily yoga practice is not generally a strict Astanga sequence of poses (as laid down by