About Boulder Yoga Center

Our Yoga Center

Our Yoga Center offers lineage based yoga classes in the Iyengar and Ashtanga traditions and we have classes for beginning through advanced students. Ashtanga yoga is an superb practice for athletes and those wishing to cultivate astounding levels of physical fitness. Iyengar practice has untold applications and benefits in therapeutic yoga and is unparalleled in addressing the unique concerns of individual practitioners. Both practices are highly meditative and offer immense opportunity for self improvement on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. At Boulder Yoga we honor the ancient lineage the two traditions share and these classes are taught with great respect and sensitivity.

Our History as an Iyengar Center

The Iyengar Yoga Center of Boulder (IYCB) has been in existence 1991 and, along with our friends at The Yoga Workshop, it was one of the first yoga studios in town. During this time IYCB has taught the yoga of BKS Iyengar to the Boulder community year after year. The Iyengar yoga remains and will now be called "Iyengar Boulder," a school within the new yoga center, headed by Laura and completely dedicated to the teachings of our Guruji, BKS Iyengar and his daughter Geetaji. We also understand some of you have come to care about the studio over the years and we reassure you that we will preserve and carry forward the energy we have built.

The Addition of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga

With the addition of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga we now provide another powerful lineage based system of yoga that will appeal to a new and different set of yoga practitioners. Seaph, head of the "Ashtanga Boulder" School within the center, has personally dedicated himself to the teaching of Guruji, Sri K Pattabhi Jois in just the same way as Laura has dedicated herself to the teachings of BKS Iyengar. Both systems of yoga owe their lineage to T Krishnamacharya and in that respect can stand side by side as brothers under the same roof.

Our Vision

Our vision is of a yoga center that stands firmly for the teachings of BKS Iyengar and Sri K Pattbhi Jois and holds true to those systems of yoga as they were and still are taught in India. This vision is of a larger, closer and more cohesive community and a yoga center that truly does manifest a sense of "union."

As business owners, part of this is to set an example of responsible entrepreneurship for a yoga business, one that generates abundance for all; not through "packaging" and "dumbing down" the yoga to appeal to a broader market or pandering to fads and trends, but through providing the community with two traditions, honoring their roots, and passing these teachings on authentically, as they are.

To help us in achieving our vision we've developed a set of core values or mantras to act as a sort of moral and ethical road map in our planning, our day-to-day decisions, and a reminder to us of what is most important. You can read our Mantras here.