Detailed Listing of Open Weekend Presenters

Fri Jan 20–Sun Jan 22, 2023

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Mon Jan 16–Fri Jan 20, 2023
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Stan Andrzejewski | | Victoria Austin | | Sherri Baptiste | | Gitte Bechsgaard | | Sophie Boller | | Paul Cabanis | | Anna Delury | | Erin Ehlers | | Aileen Epstein Ignadiou | | Gabriella Giubilaro | | Gloria Goldberg | | Eden Goldman | | Alan Goode | | Gail Grossman | | Jeanne Heileman | | Juliet Heizman | | Holly Hoffmann | | Gary Kraftsow | | Maya Lev | | Elana Maggal | | Amey Mathews | | Ginny Nadler | | Jayne Orton | Aadil Palkhivala | | Larry Payne | | Neil Pearson | | Shane Phillips | | Jennifer Prugh | | Ila Sarley | | Antonio Sausys | | Carrie Schneider | | John Schumacher | | Wendelin Scott | | Peter Sterios | | Maxine Tobias | | Patricia Walden | | Lisa Walford | | Amy Weintraub | | Anat Zahor | | Kate Zuckerman | |

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Jayne Orton
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BIOGRAPHY: Jayne OrtonJayne Orton with BKS Iyengar

I started practising Iyengar Yoga as a teenager in the 1970s and in fact my first Iyengar teacher was Kofi Busia! I then met BKS Iyengar in a Master Class in Oxford sometime later, an event that completely transformed my whole being and life thereafter and I vowed to dedicate my life to this man's teachings.

Shortly after, I started to train as a teacher under the watchful eye of Jeanne Maslen, another extraordinary teacher, from Manchester. How lucky have I been!?

I started teaching in Birmingham, my hometown, in 1980 and have continued to do so ever since.

I opened the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Birmingham UK in 2002 with Guruji’s blessings.

I have visited RIMYI in Pune over 20 times during the last 3 decades. I have taught many workshops in UK, Europe and North America and also have a special interest in Yoga for Sports. I have been a long time teacher at Birmingham City Football Club and deal with injury prevention for footballers. It will come as no surprise then that apart from Yoga and Indian Philosophy I am a keen football fan! I love reading and writing, poetry, and walking my beloved Jack Russell 'Sparky'!

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Jayne Orton
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