Opening Gathering for Light on Prāṇāyāma
Date and Time: January 18, 2026 8am UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) In this new Yoga Readers cycle we will be reading B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on
Pre-Registration Now Open
Many Yoga Readers have been telling me that they want to go beyong reading about prāṇāyāma, that they want to explore it practically.
So I’m very happy to share that senior Iyengar teacher Stephanie Quirk has agreed (in principle) to offer us a special 5-session online mini course.
About Stephanie Quirk — Senior Iyengar Teacher
We are honoured to welcome Stephanie Quirk, a world-renowned senior Iyengar yoga teacher, to guide this special online prāṇāyāma course. Stephanie’s work in yoga spans decades of dedicated study, practice and teaching. She spent more than 20 years living, studying and working closely with the Iyengar family at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India, where she immersed herself deeply in the method and assisted in therapeutic and advanced classes.
Stephanie is recognised internationally as a leader in the field of Yoga Therapeutics, bringing both technical insight and lived experience to her work. Her teaching always reflects the core Iyengar emphasis on careful observation, structural understanding, and a holistic approach that honours how body, breath, mind, and perception interact.
She regularly teaches online prāṇāyāma classes and workshops that explore breath practice in accessible ways for practitioners at various levels. Her offerings include both introductory and more advanced investigations into how the breath functions, how it may be influenced by support and alignment, and how, in turn, it shapes mental states — a truly integrative view of yoga learning.
Through her online teachings and her library of recorded classes, Stephanie supports students and teachers alike in developing a clear, grounded, and experiential relationship with the breath, in line with the precision and depth characteristic of the Iyengar tradition.
Online Teaching & Accessible Practice
Stephanie’s online classes have made her teaching accessible to a global community. These sessions often include sequences that help students become familiar with the various forms the breath can take, how breath relates to subtle body sensations, and how mental states influence breathing — all woven together in practice.
Her online prāṇāyāma offerings are known for being:
This upcoming mini-course offers a rare opportunity to attend a focused series that brings Stephanie’s seasoned perspective to the Yoga Readers community worldwide.
⚠️ Important: this is pre-registration (not payment yet)
This course is not open for paid registration yet.
I’m opening pre-registration first, to understand how many people want to join and to plan the group accordingly.
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Date and Time: January 18, 2026 8am UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) In this new Yoga Readers cycle we will be reading B.K.S. Iyengar’s Light on
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Agi Wittich is a yoga practitioner since two decades, and is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. Wittich studied Sanskrit and Tamil at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, completing a PhD with a focus on Hinduism, Yoga, and Gender. She has published academic papers exploring topics such as Iyengar yoga and women, the effects of Western media on the image of yoga, and an analysis of the Thirumanthiram yoga text.
