Kay Parry: Australian Senior Iyengar Teacher Classes

General class – Slow moving class for long-term experienced students. Concentrating on building sensitivity by working through the structural body to the functional body. Building understanding of the subtle sensations and the changes that are made when using props. Requiring perception and body ...

Detailed focus on the mobility of the feet, ankles, knees and hips
How this mobility is required for the more advanced poses.

• Supta Virasana
• Adho Mukha Savanasana
• Adho Mukha Vrksasana
• Pincha Mayuarasana
• Baddha Konasana – many ways
• Beginnings of Kandasana
• Upavistha Konasana
• Eka...

Pranayama class sensitising the body with the breath – breath with the body

• Chant
• Supta Baddha Konasana – vertical support – Ujjayi
• Sitting in Virasana – hand mudra
• Supta Baddha Konasana – horizontal support
• Prone
• Sitting in Swastika – Bramari - Viloma l - Kumbhaka
• Supported Sava...

Backbend class – looking at shape and the interconnection and linking of understanding between asanas.

• Supta Virasana
• Adho Mukha Virasana
• Uttanasana
• Adho Mukha Svanasana
• Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana
• Supported Virabhadrasana l
• Supta Padangusthasana
• Brick Setubandha Sarvangasana...

General standing poses and seated twists – During times of stress and uncertainty you may unbalance. Steady yourself from the outside in, to release for inside out.

• Supta Virasana
• Adho Mukha Virasana
• Uttanasana
• Tadasana
• Utthita Hasta Padasana > Parsva Hasta Padasana > Virabhadrasana l...

Winter practice with arm preparation for Sirsasana and Back bends.

Arm work to support Guruji’s Quote: ‘If you keep your armpits open you won’t get depressed. If you keep your armpits open then the brain becomes light and you cannot brood or be depressed’. A class for you to judge the quality no...

Winter practice of Standing poses – repetitions of linked standing poses - quick movements, fast and sharp to refresh the mind and body.

• Supta Virasana
• Adho Mukha Virasana
• Uttanasana
• Adho Mukha Savanasana
• Padangusthasana
• Tadasana
• Urdhva Hastasana
• Uttanasana
• Padahastasana
• A...

Pranayama incl Maha Mudra with visual zoom

• Supta Virasana
• Adho Mukha Virasana
• Uttanasana
• Adho Mukha Svanasana
• Tadasana
• Urdhva Hasta
• Uttanasana
• Pada Hastasana
• Padangusthasana
• Adho Mukha Svanasana
• Tadasana
• Udhva Hasta
• Sirsasana > Virasana >
• Adho Mukha Svanasana
• Dand...

Set of 8 zoom classes, recorded during Covid lockdown in Sydney. These recordings are of live classes and were never envisaged to be reproduced therefore they contain instructions and references to individual students