Annie Beatty Iyengar Yoga

Annie Beatty qualified as an Iyengar Yoga teacher in 1995.
She has studied in India three times and regularly attends workshops with Indian and other senior teachers from the UK and abroad. In 2025 she travelled to New York and stayed with Bobby Clennell for 10 days, learning yoga on and off the mat.
Every opportunity to explore the subject is eagerly taken up.

Since 2016 she has chaired Midland Counties Iyengar Yoga group inviting teachers from around the world to teach for our local students and teachers.

In 2020, after many years of campaigning for greater representation for families, she formed the Children, Young Adults and Families committee on our national association. Through this she has trained other teachers to teach children, set up online classes for university students and children and is currently working to create a source of classes for young people doing their Duke of Edinburgh Awards.

However, her biggest and happiest success to date has been the incredible Iyengar Yoga Family Camp, Yogapushpanjali She works in partnership with Sarah Delfas on this project.

Annie is also a primary school teacher, a mother of five children and so far a grandmother of three little folk. Her husband has supported her in her yoga studies taking care of the family whilst many weekends and evenings have been given up to her passion.

BKS Iyengar

Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar

14 th December 1918, Bellur, India - 20th August 2018

Through his absolute dedication to the subject of yoga, BKS Iyengar took the practice across the globe. Many teachers studied with him every year for one month or more, whilst some only met him once. Other teachers never met him for they had other commitments of family, work, financial to name a few. His light on the subject of yoga was so bright that it could endure continents, travelling in the hearts of those who met him, to the students of his students. He demanded the fullness of his students, and in return for their efforts, they received the fullness of his wisdom through Asana, through his perceptiveness, through his presence.

When you have been shown something precious, it is a responsibility to take care of it. That is how his work will continue, as we endeavour to keep our own practice bright with the timeless light of Yoga and make the ancient art ever relevant in every day.

Sage Patanjali, the said Father of Yoga, wrote his first comment (known as a sutra) on Yoga:

atha yoga anushasanam

now the practise of yoga begins

So, each and every time we come to our practice, it is now, and now and now.

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