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"The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it." —BKS Iyengar
Tokyo Yoga Circle offers weekly classes for all levels at four locations in central Tokyo. Taught officially by BKS Iyengar, she is a fully qualified senior instructor. Her classes introduce students to the practice of yoga for health, balance and inner peace.
"Yoga is like music. The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul, create the symphony of life."—BKS Iyengar
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 Rajay Mahtani has been a student of yoga for most of her adult life. She has taught yoga at Tokyo Yoga Circle, Oasis Center for Body Mind and Spirit and for the Tokyo American Club. Most of her adult life has been dedicated to studies on the path of yoga, meditation, health according to ayurvedic principles, fasting, internal organic cleansing and spiritual healing and evolvement. Her search for self knowledge and desire to study yoga led her to her native country, India, where she met BKS Iyengar. BKS Iyengar is one of the foremost teachers of Yoga in the world and has been practicing and teaching for over sixty years. Serious students of yoga from earlier than the sixties and later now follow his method and there are Iyengar yoga centres all over the world. He has written many books on yogic practice and its philosophy including "Light on Yoga," "Light on Pranayama," "Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", Yoga, The path to Holistic Health" and more. His latest work, "Light on Life" was published in September 2005. BKS Iyengar celebrated his 90th birthday in December 2007 and still takes an active role in teaching special students. He holds a remarkable personal practise regimen daily.
Rajay is a certified BKS Iyengar method teacher and has completed her teaching certification training with the Iyengar's. She has studied with BKS Iyengar, furthermore with his son, Prashant Iyengar, and his daughter, Geeta Iyengar at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India. She initially spent five years undergoing this intense training. The Iyengar Yoga Teacher Certification system is known as one of the most extensive and strict trainings which takes years to complete. This training is continued by the teacher as an ongoing lifelong process and commitment.
Rajay's yoga studies are now continuing under the guidance of Sri Prashant Iyengar, the son of BKS Iyengar whose teachings are known by his devoted students for the theory, practice, philosophy, religion, psychology and mysticism of yogic sciences. Sri Prashant Iyengar, a musician, philosopher and Yoga teacher par excellence continues to unfold esoteric and mystic revelations of the science of yoga and it's philosophy and through his soul searching research on the connections of body and mind and the entire realm of mystery that lies between the body and mind. Sri Prashant Iyengar is extremely well versed in the classical scriptures and shares his unique gems of insight with his students from all over the world through his classes, books and audio discourses. His latest work, released in November 2006, "Chitta Vijnan of Yogasanas" is a series of 11 discourses on the science, esoterics and mysticism of yogasanas which is available on MP3 format. You may contact Tokyo Yoga Circle if you would like to purchase this. A reading list is recommended below.
"Yoga: An Integrated Science" by Prashant Iyengar
Download links to "A Class after a Class" & "Our True Nature"
http://www.iyengar-yoga.com/articles/integratedscience/
"Singularity of purpose should be your aim." —BKS Iyengar
 In this style of yoga, special focus is placed on breath awareness, correcting alignment in postures, developing strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and stamina, working towards integration of breath, body, mind and spirit. Emphasis is also placed on therapeutic yoga, which the system is well known for. Rajay has been on the path of exploring yoga, meditation, chanting and sound therapy, soul searching through the modality of various forms of music, ayurveda, herbology, aromatherpy, diversified detoxification methods and benefits, and general holistic health and healing for over twenty five years. She continues to return to India to the Iyengar Institute yearly to attend courses and deepen her practice. Over the years, she has also trained many of her senior and devoted students who have established and developed their own yoga teaching careers. For her personal growth and development Rajay spends three weeks a year for detoxification and retreat in Thaland. Rajay' s devotion to the Iyengar method, her discipline her love for yoga and her experiences of the therapeutic effects that yoga practice has on the body, mind and spirit led her to the experiece of yoga as her lifepath.
Tokyo Yoga Circle is not an ongoing studio business but classes taught by an experienced certified senior intermediate level professional teacher with a serious background in yoga. She wishes to share her studies and experiences of yoga with serious and committed students and pratitioners.
Tokyo Yoga Circle does not sell yoga equipment. However there is a limited supply of books, discourses on yoga philosophy by Prashant Iyengar in MP3 format, and Pranayama cd's. Students are encouraged to purchase these items for home study.
A reservation before attending the first class, (only the first class), to discuss the appropriate class for the student is suggested. Check the news section for upcoming holiday dates or contact the Tokyo Yoga Circle at:
Tel: (03) 3582-3505 Fax: (03) 3586-7848
Email: yoga@rajay.org
Rajay teaches seven public classes a week (beginner, intermediate and prenatal)—see weekly lesson schedule at classes—in central Tokyo at convenient Roppongi and Aoyama locations.
She also teaches three classes a week, prenatal yoga Tokyo American Club for TAC members only.
Please contact the Tokyo American Club Recreation Office for details about registration.
Tel: (03)3224-3240
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"Activity and passivity must go together in asanas." —BKS Iyengar
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