About Lewes Yoga
Classes with Sallie, Orit and Ali
We are Iyengar Yoga practitioners and teachers who all teach in Lewes. This site will help you to find a yoga class that is right for you. It will provide you with information about local Lewes yoga teachers and their yoga classes.
We all hold teaching certificates awarded by the Iyengar Yoga Association (UK). This guarantees that we have done at least three years regular practice, two years intensive training, and have passed national assessments. We carry on studying and training to keep up our certification and insurance. It is our duty and delight to be able to use the registered trade mark of BKS Iyengar. To learn more about Iyengar yoga certification please follow the link to the Iyengar Yoga Association. For details of our Sussex institute follow this link Institute for Iyengar Yoga in Sussex.
Our daytime and evening classes run through the week, in a variety of Lewes venues and for different levels, from total beginner to experienced practitioners and teachers. Introductory teachers may teach only students in normal health. This is to ensure the well-being of students and to comply with the IYA rules. These teachers may continue to teach students who become pregnant, but may not take new students who are already pregnant. Senior teachers are qualified to teach pregnancy and therapy classes.
Lewes Yoga Teachers
Sallie Sullivan began yoga in Lewes in 1973. She has been teaching since 1986. She holds the Senior Intermediate Certificate and has been back teaching in Lewes since 2001.
Orit Adari began yoga in 1998 in Israel. She trained at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in London, passed the introductory certificate of the IYA(UK) in 2006 and began classes in Lewes. To contact Orit, call 471447 or 07500 787465, or email .
Ali Hahlo has been studying yoga since 1994. She also trained in London with Sallie, gained the introductory certificate in 2007 and started giving classes in Lewes. For more information about Ali call 01273 479170, 07743351883 or email , or see www.hahloyoga.co.uk.
Zoë Reason began yoga in 1990 and passed her introductory assessments in 2005. She started teaching in Lewes in 2009. For more information about Zoë call 01273 472748, email , or visit www.reasonyoga.co.uk.
More about Sallie Sullivan
I have a strong commitment to the thousand year old school of yoga that BKS Iyengar inherited, reinvented and brought to fruition. My aim is to transmit his teaching and to fire students with enthusiasm for the subject rather than for the teacher.
I began to ‘do’ yoga in Lewes in 1973, and luckily took classes with Jenny Deadman who inspired me to train in the Iyengar method. I passed the introductory certificate in 1986 and have since added the junior and senior intermediate certificates to my yoga CV.
For two years I assisted Silva and Mira Mehta in teacher training and medical classes at the London IYI. Stephen Richardson and I took over the introductory training programme on their departure in 1994. We are still doing it.
As well as attending courses in the west with Mr Iyengar, his daughter Geeta and other noted Indian teachers, I have made seven visits to the RIMYI in India. I have recently completed a three year yoga therapy training with Stephanie Quirk from RIMYI.
I studied Sanskrit and yoga philosophy for a year in London with Professor Krishna S Arjunwadkar. Indian philosophy is essentially practical and is to be experienced, not just thought about. The challenge is to bring it into one’s practice, and even more to express it while teaching.
Please feel free to contact Sallie by phone or email about Lewes Yoga, her yoga classes or individual therapeutic programmes, also available from Sallie.