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All our teachers are highly experienced yoga practitioners who have undergone a rigorous and thorough training and have the Iyengar Yoga Certification Mark. Only properly trained and certified teachers who have maintained their professional development are legally permitted to use this logo. All intermediate level and teacher training classes are taken by holders of the Intermediate Senior Certificate.

	Tricia Booth was a physiotherapist when she began practising Iyengar Yoga. She has been teaching for approximately 38 years and holds the intermediate senior teaching certificate. She has made many visits to Pune to study with Guruji and also taken numerous classes with him on his visits to the UK. She has been running the teacher training courses, first with Jeanne Maslen and now with Julie Brown and Marion Kilburn. She has been Chairman of the MDIIY for many years, is a past Chairman of the Assessment and Teacher Training committee of the IYA(UK) and is a moderator at assessments run by the association.
	Pen Reed has been teaching yoga for 47 years. She was a founder member of the MDIIY, and trained with BKS Iyengar both here and in Pune. In later years she has attended classes with Geeta. Pen attends the teachers' classes regularly at the Institute. She now takes the Tuesday class and enjoys helping students to improve their postures by using the excellent equipment available.
	Julie Brown qualified in 1981 and is now a senior teacher who is challanged and stretched by helping to train teachers and also running the Monday teachers class. She will be familiar to many yoga practitioners from her popular DVD 'Practice and Enjoy'.
	Marion Kilburn is a Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher, and has been teaching for 27 years. She is also a teacher trainer at the MDIIY and an assessor and moderator for the IYA (UK). Marion's classes are mainly in the locality of South Manchester, Didsbury and Chorlton, and she also teaches at the MDIIY on Wednesday mornings. She has visited Pune India many times to study with BKS Iyengar, Prashant and Geeta.
	David Reddicen has been teaching yoga since 1994 and retired from engineering to teach yoga full time in 1996. Teaching 10 classes each week at various venues around Manchester, David is a committee member at the MDIIY, where he teaches and attends classes weekly . As a committee member David has responsibility for the ongoing renovation, repair and running of the MDIIY's grand old Victorian building . A senior level certificate holder, David favours Prashant's style of teaching with lots of attention to breath and mind aspects. A keen organic veg grower, David can often be found (when not engaged in yoga activities) in the garden, greenhouse or allotment, often with the help of wife Margaret and grandchildren Kai and Gabrielle.
	Debbie Bartholomew has been practising yoga for over 20 years and now teaches Iyengar Yoga full time after working for 24 years in the building trade as a Builders' Merchant. She teaches at the Insitute, for local education authorities and for the NHS. She is a senior level certificate holder and teaches all levels but particularly enjoys teaching beginners as they have so much enthusiasm. She has been to India and taught by Geeta Iyengar four times and has been lucky enough to be taught by BKS Iyengar twice, at Crystal Palace in 1993 and in Paris in 1997.
	Julie Royle has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She has visited Pune on three occasions and has recently completed a course of remedial workshops at the MDIIY as well as teaching on a yoga for lower back pain trial. By day she works at the Manchester Children's Hospital and takes a general class suitable for all abilities on a Thursday evening.
	Marios Argiros came to yoga originally through neck and back problems he had been unable to solve with other therapies and found that Iyengar Yoga had a transforming effect on his life and his work as a musician. He trained at MDIIY with Tricia Booth and Julie Brown and now holds the intermediate senior certificate (level 1). He makes regular visits to Pune to study with the Iyengar family and has also been incredibly fortunate to study with Jeanne Maslen and Jawahar Bangera. He teaches classes at MDIIY, at Sheffield Yoga Centre and in his own studio in the Peak District, and also has a particular interest in remedial yoga. He spends several weeks each year teaching yoga holidays in Crete - his website is www.mariosyoga.com
	Margaret Ellison - 'my first introduction to yoga was in January 1974 – the ‘floppy kind' ! After discovering the Mr. Iyengar's method and attending local classes, I qualified in 1984 and in 1987 gained my Intermediate Junior Certificate. Having taught several Local Authority classes over the years, I now teach a ‘slower-paced' class and the remedial class at the MDIIY and enjoy it immensely. I regularly attend teachers' classes and I am a member of our committee and also a Trustee of the building, carrying out duties such as advertising. My interests are theatre-going and gardening and I can be found most fine days getting my hands dirty in the garden! My hubby is Mike, Jackie and Mark are our two thirty-somethings and we now have a grandson Tom who keeps us on our toes.'
	Janice Yates teaches three evening classes a week at MDIIY and has been the honorary secretary of the MDIIY for the past twenty years. In 2008 she took on the new role of Centre Manager, a job she is enjoying very much.
	John Aplin began attending yoga classes with Carole Lawrence when he realised that playing football was making him stiff. He trained with Jeanne Maslen and Tricia Booth and has now been teaching Iyengar yoga for 15 years. John became interested in the therapeutic benefits of yoga when playing football, and Iyengar yoga later helped him recover from serious injuries sustained in a fall. He holds the Junior Intermediate Certificate and teaches general and healthy backs classes as well as pursuing a busy university career in medical research and teaching.
	Joan Abrams has been teaching yoga for over 30 years, and regularly attends teachers' classes at the Institute. She's retired from her ‘day job' as an English teacher, and the ‘Older & Stiffer' class on a Thursday morning hopefully shows that it's never too late to start yoga and discover its benefits for our bodies and minds.
	Gaynor Wilson
	Barbara Reeve takes the Friday evening class at the MDIIY. She has been practising yoga for twenty years and teaching for ten. She is the proud owner of two traditional cobs which she rides regularly.
	Julia Mitchell - 'I have been practising Iyengar yoga for 15 years and teaching since 2005. Yoga helps me to keep balance in my life and when I'm teaching I love to see how much yoga practice benefits other people too. I am pretty much addicted to yoga and really enjoy going to different events with teachers from near and far. As well as from other teachers, I get much inspiration from my gorgeous retired greyhound Coco who can still do a mean Dog Down.'
	Julie Howarth - 'I have always been interested in keeping fit and for over 10 years enjoyed attending various gyms and exercise classes. My interest in yoga came after reading about the benefits of good posture, stamina and better breathing. I thought it would improve my hobbies of ice-skating and horse-riding, and as I worked in an office with too many hours sitting at a desk I decided to give it a go. I joined MDIIY in 1995 and have been attending classes ever since. My mum, encouraged by me, also joined and many years later after much cajoling (nagging) my husband and even my dad have joined the yoga journey. I began my teacher training in 2005 and qualified November 2007. Being made redundant in 2006 helped me to make the decision to concentrate on yoga teaching.'
	Kim Skinner - 'I first did yoga at age 15. My friend wanted to lose weight and asked me to go with her to an adult education class. The few memories I retain are of giggling a lot, doing the the "candle" - shoulderstand - and of taking a blanket to class. ( The bus driver once asked me if I was leaving home.) Over the next 20 years or so I would occasionally go to a few classes but only became a regular attender once I joined Marion Kilburn's class. I trained in Sheffield with Marion and Frances Homewood and qualified in 2007. I am very excited to be going to Pune next year.'