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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.
	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 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 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 one evening class 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.
	Jacky Taylor began her studies of Iyengar Yoga in January 1999. At that time she was working at the University of Manchester in the Faculty of Life Sciences, just around the corner from John Aplin who was Jacky's first teacher. John encouraged Jacky to attend Jeanne Maslen's classes at the MDIIY from February 2002. In October 2005 Jacky qualified as an Iyengar Yoga teacher at the Introductory level and gained her Intermediate Junior level 3 teaching certificate in March 2010. Jacky continues to study at the MDIIY under the guidance of Julie Brown and attends workshops nationally and internationally. She travelled to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India for a month of intensive study in October 2010. Jacky joined the MDIIY Executive Committee in November 2009 and was elected Chair in November 2010. Her website is www.yogawithjacky.com
	John Aplin started yoga with Carol Lawrence and continued his training with Jeanne Maslen. He holds the Intermediate Junior Certificate and teaches classes at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Manchester University as well as MDIIY. Yoga under Jeanne's guidance provided an effective and illuminating pathway to recovery from a serious back injury in 1996, and John became interested in the therapeutic and restorative effects of yoga. (Read more about John's recovery here).Working with, and learning from, students with various problems led to a realisation that though our ultimate goals may be in common, the path is always individual. John combines yoga teaching with a busy career in medical research.
	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 - 'On my 30th birthday I had a slipped disc, I could hardly stand up never mind celebrate! A few weeks later I walked into my first yoga lesson at the institute (MDIIY). Soon my aches and pains were disappearing and my posture and energy levels had improved dramatically. That was the beginning of my love for yoga, 17 years ago! Since then I've had 2 yoga babies, practising yoga throughout both pregnancies and still doing inversions until week 38. I began my teacher training in 2003 and a few years later qualified at junior intermediate level. Yoga has given me the confidence to pursue my other love which is singing to a semi-professional level.'
	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.' Julie's website is http://www.yoga-withjulie.co.uk/
	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 feel very privileged to have recently attended classes in Pune.'
	Richard Glover - 'I started yoga just over ten years ago as I was in my late 40's and wanted to keep my body working. For six years I attended a weekly class and found yoga was an excellent balance to a busy working and family life. Wanting to learn more about yoga I decided in 2006 to enroll on the teachers training course and achieved the introductory level 2 qualification in 2008 that allowed me to begin teaching within the Iyengar Yoga Association guidelines. Learing to teach yoga showed me that there a huge amount more to yoga then you can ever begin to learn in a weekly class. The most valuable discovery were the Yama's and Niyama's, which for me, are perfect ethical guidelines as to how we should all seek to lead our lives.'