Barbara Benagh's Yoga Studio

Listening is exercise for the mind. Here are links to Down Under Yoga where I teach when in Boston, a few local Boston area studios and teachers who are long timers in my community, as well as the websites of fellow yogis of my generation who I have most admired, taught, and studied with through the years. Stellar elders. Born in Texas and raised i... n Tennessee, I immigrated to England a week after graduating college. I began studying yoga in London in 1972 and began teaching in 1974, moved to Boston in 1978, sought out the tiny yoga community there and slowly built a teaching practice, opening my own school on Beacon Hill in 1982. After nearly 40 years in Boston, my hearts hometown, I chose to largely retire from teaching yoga and return to my southern roots. Trust me, it was a surprising decision! This time, to Durham, NC to be with my daughter and her family which includes 2 amazing grandsons. Durham is so great, laid back, a little bit urban and finally, a garden! And a longer growing season! It has been a balm during these COVID times. As to yoga - My first exposure to yoga was the Iyengar Method which I practiced devotedly for 15 years. I learned a lot and its stellar attention to alignment continues to inform my practice. However, a teacher I met in London awoke another aspect of the practice, a more internal, less linear experience. It called to me. Though she threw me out of the nest years ago, telling me to trust my voice and spread my wings, I will forever thank Angela Farmer for giving me the courage to be. I still visit her and her inspiring yoga teacher husband, Victor Van Kooten, from time to time. I also appreciate my peers Richard Freeman, Sarah Powers, and Doug Keller for the wisdom they share. Though quite different than me, they resonate and keep me learning! So, Im a patchwork quilt. My style is a bit quirky, no fealty to any method, informed by my teachers and a largely solo practice and, time. It is, simply put, my sharing with you my experience of 48 years on the mat. Your way of ...Read More