Local yoga teachers Gene Dicker, Patsy Sparksman and Wendy Sykes had spent two years hunting for a site close to home when they stumbled across a derelict site with a chequered history on Leicester Rd, East Finchley, close to the junction with the High Road. After some false starts, the Iyengar Yoga Studio finally opened in 2007. Designed by award-winning British architect Dean Hawkes, it is one of East Finchley’s ‘hidden gems’; a light, calm and beautiful interior concealed behind a modest and easily overlooked entrance.
Serving the local community, classes have built gradually over the last four years – mainly by word of mouth. They are taught by an experienced, fully qualified and committed group of self-employed teachers most of whom live locally. Click here to see the Teachers page.
London has had a special relationship with Iyengar yoga since 1968 when it was taken onto the syllabus of the Inner London Education Authority after a tour by BKS Iyengar arranged by his pupil and friend the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin.
The Studio is dedicated to Iyengar Yoga and has been granted permission to use the Iyengar name. It is an Affiliated Centre of the Iyengar Yoga Association UK.
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- The Studio site just before work started.
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- Wendy standing in debris at the front of the derelict property.
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- The front of the Studio
