Letting go of your expectations of how ‘things will go’ is one of life’s hardest and most painful lessons. To learn this is one of the great tasks of the Yoga Sutras.

We recently received the message that Leen Koppenol passed away after a short, severe illness. Leen was a welcome student from day 1 of iYoga’s establishment. Leen and Bea were even the first to guess that we were going to start ‘for ourselves’.
Leen took yoga seriously and was always looking forward to it. One of his – for us – great achievements is that he, together with Dorthe, managed to persuade Hiske to guide a group of students to become a teacher themselves. It goes without saying that he took part in this in-depth course himself. This led to him receiving his certificate a few years later. Since then he has also been a valued teacher. Due to Corona, his regular lesson had disappeared. But we always assumed this was temporary.

We remember Leen as a friendly, humorous, quirky, well-dressed personality with a penchant for ingenious prop use, which we always loved to see enter. Someone who brought people together, even outside of yoga classes. We will miss him and wish Bea lots of strength and love.

Day and night, inhale and exhale, living and dying. The positive and the negative. They are both necessary and keep each other in balance. Sometimes they are close together, the balance is easy to feel, and sometimes the contrasts are sharp and poignant. And we just have to try to reconcile ourselves with that, using all the means we have available to us. One of those possible means is yoga. If words fail, you can at least do something. Feel, breathe, exist.

-Claas & Hiske

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Schedule changes December

Please check the schedule in December, we have a few schedule changes due to the workshop with Eyal Shifroni (Saturday 10 dec: no class at 10.45!) and of course some changes over the holidays. We’re still open every day with special Christmas and New Year classes!

New: All Levels class with Ahmed | Thursdays 20.00

You might already know Ahmed: he has been subbing for Annabel for the last 2 summers, and has been a familiar face in our classes for a long time now.

Being an ultra-long-distance runner and triathlete, he knows a lot about keeping the body fit, and dealing with the mental issues that are also a big part of such extraordinary effort. Iyengar yoga helped him heal from some significant injuries. He followed the teacher training with Berber Schönholzer in Amsterdam and is a certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher since 2021.

Come join him in his new class!