Monday 24 August 2009

Welcome our Iyengar Yoga Centre

Welcome to our Yoga Centre.
Listed below are the workshops David will be teaching. Further down the blog you will see details of the immediate workshops, such as venue, registration details and schedule of the workshop. Then there is a section of comments by students, sharing their experiences of workshops they have attended. The following section is a small picture gallery and a link for more photos of workshopshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/yogawithdavid/
Lastly, there is a new BLOG for the home practitioner http://yogasequence.blogspot.com/
To book for workshops, or get more information send mail to yogawithdavid@gmail.com or call me Jürgen on 082-886-7568

Tuesday 10 March 2009

Visit our photo gallery & BLOG with sequences of asanas

Welcome to our "Virtual" Yoga Centre. in colour.
The following section is a small picture gallery and a link for more photos of workshops http://www.flickr.com/photos/yogawithdavid/
You can also take a look at my new blog http://yogasequence.blogspot.com/

About David

A Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga teacher with a diploma in physical education, David Jacobs has dedicated his life to studying the art and science of yoga. David travelled to Pune, India to study under BKS Iyengar and his daughter Geeta, first in 1994 and then several annual visits thereafter. These were the first yoga classes where he saw where the technique was able to embody the philosophy. He recently pulled back from his public teaching classes to focus more deeply on his practice and to begin teaching around Southern Africa and internationally. You will find him teaching national workshops in South Africa, as well as International workshops in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Switzerland.

Thursday 12 June 2008

Workshops with Senior Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher, David Jacobs





November 2009

Cape Town, 27th - 29th November 2009



2010

(Proposed dates for 2010 - some are subject to change)

January 2010
Johannesburg, 23rd January & 24th January 2010

February 2010
Knysna, 6th Feb 2010 - Teachers workshop at Lotus Studio

March 2010
Zimbabwe, 19th - 21st March 2010
Corinne Biria

April 2010
30th April - 2nd May 2010, Hogsback
Cape Town, 17th & 18th April 2010

May 2010
Durban, YYI 8th & 9th May 2010
Johannesburg, 22nd & 23rd May 2010

June 2010
Geneva, Switzerland
Hermanus 13th & 14th June 2010

July 2010
Knysna, 10th &11th July 2010
Cape Town, 24th & 25th July 2010

August 2010
Johannesburg, 21st & 22nd August 2010

September 2010
Lyndhurts, Johannesburg, 11th & 12th September 2010

October 2010
Swaziland, 8th - 10th October 2010
Nelspruit, 16th & 17th October 2010
Malelane, 23rd & 24th October 2010

November 2010
Hermanus, 13th & 14th November 2010
Cape Town, 27th & 28th November 2010




"Yoga is like a deep well; one can draw water from its surface and quench one's thirst, or one can, with effort, break the surface of the water and plunge into its depth where the cool waters are constantly fed from an inexhaustible stream of distilled knowledge that can come only from one who has totally immersed himself in the ocean of wisdom." BKS Iyengar

Wednesday 11 June 2008

Registration details and information for the next workshop


The last workshop of the year will be held in November in CAPE TOWN
Saturday, 28th November 2009 & 29th November 2009

for more information contact Jürgen on 082 886 7568


Daily Workshop schedule

8h30 – 08h45 - Preparation

08h45 – 09h45 - Pranayama

09h45 -- 10h00 - Break

10h00 -- 13h00 - Asana

13h00 – 14h00 - Lunch

14h00 -- 17h00 - Asana



SEE YOU IN 2010

For more information contact Jürgen on 082 886 7568


Comments from students after workshops

“I wanted to thank you both so much for the inspirational workshop. It was such a gift to us. Thank you for your passion and dedication to yoga, that naturally overflows from you both and touches your students. Thank you also for your warmth, compassion, guidance and joy. It was truly an honor to spend the time with you both. I know that I speak for peta jenny and myself when I say that your teachings have transformed and inspired all of our practices and our yoga journeys”. Philippa, Zimbabwe May 2009


".....you might be surprised to know that I have probably been practising Yoga longer than anyone else present that day, having started in the early 60's as a student! Even with a couple of breaks over the years, I still have a good many years' practice under my belt. Regrettably, years of backpacking, bad posture and an unsuccessful encounter with an orthopaedic surgeon have left me with messed-up knees, neck and feet respectively. However, in spite of these problems, I really enjoyed the day on Saturday. I felt I was being pushed to my capacity, but not beyond it, and I was in serious need of being reminded of my bad posture. I am now trying to be more aware, and have asked friends to nag me when they catch me slumping! It will have been clear to you that everyone enjoyed the weekend enormously, and those more proficient than I will have learnt a great deal.
 
David, you have the rare gift of bringing out the best in pupils with just the right amount of strictness, tempered with gentleness and good humour, and with Jurgen seemingly everwhere at once to assist where needed, you make a fabulous team! Thank you both for your kindness and understanding."
 Love, Sally-at-the-Back (YYI course in Durban May 2009)

CLOSED - the sign outside the studio, empty yoga studio that had been my practice for many years.  No warning.  No hint of the reasons behind it  The studio shut its doors, scattering a community of students and teachers. What would become of my practice now, without the physical space that housed it?
After my shock subsided, I asked the universe for guidance.  The response was clear.  Try every studio in the area.  Reach out and take every class you can.  The practice of your past will not be the practice of the future.
I've been a devoted yoga student, but with the studio's closure, my kind of yoga was no longer available in my town.  I had to open up to other styles of yoga, a choice I wouldn't have made for myself.  I learned new asanas.  I have learned that the true practice is within, that you can be happy and stagnant at the same time, and that you can turn away from new possibilities without realizing it.
A door closes: many others open.  Students and teachers from the old studio reconnect in new places and in new ways.  I miss my former studio, but since its closing, my practice has expanded exponentially - and along with it, my perception of myself as a yoga students and as an individual in the world.  Anonymous 
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..... there is very little said about the actual yoga and what others could expect at David's workshops. Well, it is deep yoga practice, with focus on complete and deep movement, gently. Bolsters and supports are used, with thorough and friendly instructor attention. Knowledge is shared freely, and as many attendees are ioistructors too, much is shared and learnt. The perfect definition of workshop. Both Jurgen and David could be describe by a Yidish auntie as "Mensch". I can not ask for a more complete instruction, and will be back."  See you in Hermanus!  Niel Jonker (January 2009)
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"I would just like to thank you both for the opportunity to have been in the presence of your expertise and your infectious convictions. My experience and knowledge acquired from your workshop have been put into action, and no doubt will benefit the yogi's who come to my classes. The intelligence and refinement you bring to my personal understanding and practice can only come form two such souls who have answered their calling in life!"
Namaste, Sabrina (Lyndhurts, Johannesburg September 2008)

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"Namaskar dear David and Jurgen - just a short note to thank you both for a great workshop at Kerry's Haum of Yoga studio. You're such fabulous people (I'm sure you hear this often) and David, you're such a wonderful teacher - I don't think I would find another whom I could trust so implicitely!!!!! I am in awe and feel most honoured, to say the very least. It was a truly profound experience (and fun in a rather sado-masochistic way!). I learnt so much and will definitely be at the next and the next and the next (hopefully by then with looser hips, an improvement in the sacral area and less fear!) I'm going to try to find "Yoga the Iyengar Way" as you suggested, to use in my self-practice sessions. And with a bit of luck I'll be able to do the wheel without choosing to rather put needles in my eyes instead!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish you both all the very best, much happiness and continued health, success and wellbeing."
( Norma Kidson, Haum of Yoga, August 2008)
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"David is a natural born teacher who brings out the best in all his students. He has the ability to get under your skin and make you fully aware of your body and state of mind. He is vigorous, authoritative, and some say relentless. Yet by the same token humorous, extremely perceptive and caring. His workshops are much talked about and for good reason. He generates a feeling of connectedness and group spirit even among large crowds and challenges us to go beyond our perceived limits. Not only do you feel elated and fully stretched in all compartments, but you will walk away having learned a myriad of innovative and creative approaches to improve your own practice or teaching methods. He might even sow the seeds of a life-long yoga practice in you – something he certainly did for me." (Lars Krüger, Iyengar Teacher at Yoga Warrior May 2008)
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Baie dankie vir die manier hoe julle inligting met ons buite die Iyengar groep deel, vir die kennis en praktiese toepassing, die passie, dissipline en manier hoe julle met elkeen in die groep gewerk het en geïnspireer het. Julle toewyding en suiwerheid van die manier hoe julle werk het duidelik na vore gekom en word waardeer. Almal het presies geweet wat verwag word en dat daar nie lyf weggesteek kan word nie.
(Hester Van Zyl, Young Yoga Institute, Nelspruit 2008)

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I just wanted to express my sincere thanks to you both for the two wonderful workshops that I have experienced (so far!) with you - the YYI - La Verna workshop in March, and then our own Nelspruit workshop last month. I found the experience exhilarating, stretching (in both senses of the word..), and learned a lot about my own limitations and frustrations. Not to mention how much I have learned in terms of becoming a better teacher. I am inspired to greatness by your examples. So thanks for the humour, the strength, the sternness, the passion, the gentleness, the eloquence, the intelligence, and the confidence with which you share your teachings. Thank you indeed for being prepare to share. May the fresh mountain air always fill your lungs, golden sunshine warm you, and the ancient wisdom of Africa embrace you.
(Kim Olbrich, Nelspruit 2008)
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Wednesday 16 January 2008

Photo Gallery


































August 2007

Last class at the B.K.S.Iyengar Yoga Centre, Camps Bay, South Africa


all smiles before the Chair Salabhasana


Parvattanasana in Virasana

Viparita Dandasana in chair

more photos at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yogawithdavid/