Alan Brown
Senior Intermediate Level 3 Iyengar Yoga Teacher

I started practising Iyengar Yoga in 1979 Yorkshire, England and gained my Introductory certificate in 1987.   I left my job in computing and became a full time Iyengar Yoga teacher in 1990 after my first visit to the Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Institute in India for a 3 week intensive with BKS Iyengar.

I live in a small village in the Yorkshire Pennines very close to the Pennine Way where I am fortunate to have an equipped yoga studio in my house. I teach regular classes from my studio as well as in the surrounding towns and villages.  I teach regular full day workshops from my studio as well as in other areas.  I run a weekly yoga therapy class for those students with health problems which make it difficult for them to cope in an ordinary class

I have been an Iyengar Yoga teacher trainer since 2000 and I run a regular monthly training group for the Introductory teaching certificate.  I also run regular workshops the higher levels of Junior Intermediate assessment.

I have been an active member of the Iyengar Yoga Association of the UK for many years and I have worked on the Assessment and Teacher Training Committee of the IYA(UK) I acting as Chair of that committee from 2006 until 2010. 

I have also been a member of the Bradford and District Iyengar Yoga Institute since its formation and I currently chair that organisation.   The BDIYI has spread out over a large area since it began and now has one of the largest memberships of UK regional associations as well as over 50 active teacher members teaching classes over a wide area of Yorkshire and Lancashire. Details of these and regular events featuring visiting teachers as well as my classes can be found on the BDIYI website.

Recently I have been spending much of my time in the South of France where I teach yoga classes to both French and English students. Every year in the month of September I organise a yoga holiday in this beautiful area. Accommodation is in a converted country farmhouse with attached yoga studio and vegetarian, organic home cooked food.