IYNZ Winter Workshop

Dr. Agi Wittich is an Iyengar yoga teacher and scholar of yoga, gender, and Hindu traditions.

Her work brings together years of textual study and embodied practice, exploring how yoga is read, practiced, and lived today. Agi leads a global community in learning through her Yoga Readers Group where practitioners gather to delve deeper into authentic Iyengar Yoga texts and Yoga Philosophy.

This is a free event for IYNZ members – please join us in this learning experience.

“Sūtra by Sūtra, Body by Body: Yoga Sūtra I.14 and the Logic of Deep Practice”

Sa tu dīrgha-kāla-nairantarya-satkārāsevito dṛḍhabhūmiḥ. Practice becomes firmly grounded when cultivated for a long time, with continuity, with care and devotion. This is Yoga Sūtra I.14, and in four words Patañjali asks the question every serious practitioner eventually faces: not whether you are practicing, but how.

In this session we will explore this sūtra: What does dīrgha-kāla ask of us? What does nairantaryademand? And what does satkāra (reverence, care, appropriate attitude) look like in the body, in the way we approach a prāṇāyāma session, a Śīrṣāsana, or a quiet Śavāsana?

Drawing on Patañjali’s sūtras alongside Iyengar’s commentary in Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali, we explore what it means to read a classical text through the body. The sūtras are instructions. They become legible through practice. For teachers and experienced practitioners, this is an invitation to look again at something familiar and find it newly alive.

Recommended Reading: B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali,  on Sūtras I.12–16.

Contact Suzi at secretary@iyengar-yoga.org.nz to register for this online event.