Opening Gathering for Light on Prāṇāyāma

In this new Yoga Readers cycle we will be reading B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on Prāṇāyāma – his major work on yogic breathing, and a text that has quietly shaped how many teachers and practitioners around the world understand, teach, and practise prāṇāyāma today.

To open this journey, I’m inviting you to a special communal gathering on Zoom.

What this opening gathering is about

This first meeting is not yet a study session – it is an orientation and community circle.

We will:

• Reconnect as a global community and welcome new members
• Look at where we’ve come from – how The Tree of Yoga and Yoga: A Gem for Women prepared the ground for a serious exploration of breath
• Introduce the place of Light on Prāṇāyāma in modern yoga and within the Iyengar tradition
• Clarify what this cycle is and what it is not:
  • not an online “prāṇāyāma techniques course”
  • but a careful, text-based journey into the methodology, ethics, and subtle understanding of breath
• Present the reading structure: units, pace, reminders, where to find questions, quizzes and recordings
• Create space for you to share: your experience with prāṇāyāma so far, your hopes, reservations, and questions

We will also end with a short guided breath-awareness practice – very simple, accessible to all – to mark this as both an intellectual and an embodied beginning.