North Perth Yoga Room

North Perth Yoga Room Yoga in the Iyengar tradition. Since 1999, with Ann Dragon The North Perth Yoga Room is a fully
equipped Iyengar yoga studio.

Classes and courses to suit everybody from the established practitioner to beginners. There is no need for you to bring a thing. Classes are taken barefoot in loose and comfortable clothing. Our little school is welcoming, our community has been practising together for over 20 years in this location. We love what we do and we think you will love it too.

Most people discover Iyengar Yoga when something stops working.A knee. A back. The ability to get off the floor without ...
07/06/2026

Most people discover Iyengar Yoga when something stops working.
A knee. A back. The ability to get off the floor without planning the operation in advance.

Here's what surprises them: Iyengar Yoga isn't remedial. It's rigorous.

The method was designed for lifelong practice — for every age, every body — with dedicated teachers who are professionally trained and have years of experience using props and equipment that enable rebuilding what the years may have taken away.

Students come in cautious. They stay because it works.

Ann Dragon has been teaching this method for more than 25 years at the North Perth Yoga Room. Some students have been practising with us for over two decades.

That's not loyalty to a brand. That's something they found that actually changed how they move through the world.

Complimentary first class available. Link in bio.

07/06/2026

Iyengar Yoga is one of the most thoroughly documented, rigorously certified yoga systems in the world. It was developed over seven decades by B.K.S. Iyengar — one of the most influential yoga teachers of the 20th century — and shaped into a teachable curriculum largely by his daughter Geeta S. Iyengar, who taught and wrote until her death in 2018.

The method has a formal certification structure. Teachers train for years before they are permitted to teach independently. They are assessed, graded, and accountable to an international body. When you attend an Iyengar class in Perth, Spain, or New York, the methodological foundation is the same.

That is not how most yoga works.
Hot take: most yoga classes aren't teaching you yoga.
They're teaching you movement sequences set to music. Which is fine — but it's not the same thing.

Iyengar Yoga has a 2,500-year lineage, a formal teacher certification structure, and a methodology based on direct experiential learning. Reviewing Dr Geeta Iyengar's teaching to Western Australian Iyengar-certified teachers in 2003, clearly illustrates this point over and over again. Here's another short snippet where Geetaji emphasises the importance of connecting what is being said to what the teacher is observing.

At NPYR, principal teacher Ann Dragon holds a Senior Level 3 certification, backed by 25 years of full-time teaching. That credential isn't a marketing claim. It's a measurable standard.

It is an honour and privilege to shine a light on Mr Iyengar's life's work and methodology, and it is a responsibility not taken lightly. Thanks for liking, engaging and sharing this community post.






25/05/2026

The Teacher Is Also Learning

Here is what the teacher training guidelines from RIMYI IYENGAR YOGA SHALA PUNE say about the teachers responsibility:
after every class, go home and reflect.

Think about the student who didn't respond. Ask yourself why. Work on yourself. Come back better.

In this video snippet, Dr Geeta Iyengar notes that the "teaching process is directly imparting"

Geetaji illustrates this principle in many layers - when observing the teacher on the stage, and more broadly, to the group on the floor. Through a direct experience of timing, emphasis and purpose. hers is not simply, verbal instruction.

Thank you for supporting and encouraging our work to collectively refine an understanding of BKS Iyengar's lineage ..

With eternal gratitude for the "clues" their Light on Yoga continues to reveal ✨






18/05/2026

Yoga — the actual subject — was never about the body alone.
It was always an investigation of consciousness. A method for steadying the mind so completely that something underneath the noise could be perceived.

How does a physical practice reach that? How do you get from a standing pose to the thing yoga actually promises?

B.K.S. Iyengar spent a lifetime answering this question through his own body.

What Guruji discovered — and what the RIMYI IYENGAR YOGA SHALA PUNE teacher training makes explicit — is that precision in the physical body is not separate from attention of the mind.

They are the same movement, approached from opposite ends.

When your teacher says "press the inner heel," she is not talking about your foot. She is asking your attention to go somewhere specific and stay there. That is concentration.

That is dharana — one of yoga's eight limbs — expressed through a heel on a mat. Alignment is not about looking correct. It is the architecture of attention.

B.K.S. Iyengar was quoted on the BBC News on 20 August 2014, "When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens. … When I still find some parts of my body that I have not found before, I tell myself, yes, I am progressing scientifically... I don't stretch my body as if it were an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around"

This is how Iyengar Yoga extracts the essence of yoga from the physical practice. Not by bypassing the body — but by going through it so completely, so carefully, that the body becomes a doorway.

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Reviewing the video of Geetaji illustrating lineage through teacher training continues to connect our efforts to serve NPYR members and the community. Developing our understanding is a lifelong practice of endless gratitude, commitment and love x





Most people stand on their feet all day and have never actually thought about them.In Iyengar yoga, the foot is where ev...
13/05/2026

Most people stand on their feet all day and have never actually thought about them.

In Iyengar yoga, the foot is where everything begins. We spend whole sequences just on this — spreading the toes, pressing the inner heel, lifting the inner arch. This is exactly what Dr. Geeta Iyengar was illustrating during our teacher development session in Perth, 2003.

If you look at the image, you'll see how what the foot does determines what the knee, hip, and spine do. Everything is connected. But the chain starts at the ground.

Iyengar yoga works this way — precise, sequential, prop-supported. You don't just do a pose.
You understand what the pose is asking for, and you build it from the ground up.
It changes how you walk out of class. Sometimes, after a few weeks, how you walk everywhere.

If you've been curious about this kind of practice, your first class at North Perth Yoga Room is complimentary. We have Foundations and Developing classes throughout the week.

Photo: thanks to Pic Tim

Getting In and Coming Out .... learning, studying, practising Since returning from NZ, working with Abhijata Iyengar and...
13/05/2026

Getting In and Coming Out .... learning, studying, practising

Since returning from NZ, working with Abhijata Iyengar and pursuing a deeper understanding of Iyengar's lineage, I've been doing a deep dive reviewing resources produced by RIMYI IYENGAR YOGA SHALA PUNE.

The RIMYI training describes two movements in practice.

The evolutionary — going into the pose, reaching toward its final form.
And the involutionary — the return from the final stage, the absorption of what was found there.

Most practitioners understand the first. The second takes years.

It is in the involutionary turn that the real work lives. The moment the effort releases. Where the body teaches the mind, and the mind finally stops arguing with what is. Where something that cannot be named settles.

You cannot rush this.
You cannot schedule it.
But you can create the conditions for it

We strive to create this pathway at NPYR - it's our responsibility to be of service to you and it's why many NPYR practitioners have continued to be members for over twenty years.

This is the lineage that we respect and are privileged to continue.

Dug yourself into a hole? Need to dig yourself out of a mid-year rut?YOU ARE NOT ALONE :)It's mid-year, and for many o...
11/05/2026

Dug yourself into a hole? Need to dig yourself out of a mid-year rut?
YOU ARE NOT ALONE :)

It's mid-year, and for many of us, the grind of daily life can set in. Maybe that pace starts to feel like too much doing and not enough pausing to actually ponder what's happening — in the body, in the breath, in the accumulated weight of the week.

Foundations and Developing classes run through the week — mornings and evenings. Each one methodical. Props laid out. No music. Just attention to what is actually happening, pose by pose.

If you've been thinking about it, this is a good week to start.
First class is complimentary. DM and we'll get you started.

11/05/2026

Enjoy these inspiring reflections from my colleague and friend Polly Realf .

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5a Blake Street North Perth
Perth, WA
6006

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Monday 6am - 12pm
4pm - 7pm
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5:45pm - 7pm
Wednesday 6am - 12pm
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