ABOUT SIMON MARROCCO

Simon Marrocco, one of the most influential Iyengar Yoga teachers in Australia/South East Asia, has lead workshops and retreats globally, and is the founder/director of the St. Kilda Iyengar Yoga School in Melbourne, since September 1989.
India has become Simon’s second home going nearly every year to study with the Iyengar family.

Simon attended Guruji’s 75th birthday Intensive in Panchagani India in 1993 and 1996 and both Pranayama Intensives with Guruji in Pune in February 1995 and 1996 as well as the Rishikiesh Intensive’s with Guruji. He has attended many other conventions with Guruji & Geeta.
Simon has served for many years on the BKS Iyengar Yoga Australian Association Certification Committee and has trained many teachers over the years through his teacher training programs. He has taught in major countries around the world.
In 1995 he decided to purchase land up in the northern rivers of NSW in the Tweed Valley, where he opened his Yoga Retreat Centre .

In 2018 Simon made a decision to broaden his enquiry, healing and understanding, opening his association with other fellowships. This searching and fearless moral inventory of himself led to this present moment ever fresh – the end of seeking. In this present instant he is custodian to 20 acres of rainforest wilderness in the Wollumbin Caldera home to the Bundjalung traditional owners. A place known to have supported deep sanctuary of the human spirit and powerful healing for over 40,000 years. The spring fed slopes in Simons care include pocket sanctuaries of ancient cycads (since the time of the dinosaurs). He is passionate about regenerative agriculture, food security and creating spaces for human immersion into the wellbeing of nature and the Intelligence of the breathing form.

ABOUT IYENGAR YOGA

The Iyengar approach to yoga is firmly based on the traditional eight limbs of yoga expounded by Patanjali in his classic treatise, The Yoga Sutras, written over 2,500 years ago.
It is a disciplined and deeply researched system developed over 85 years by Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, who practised daily – exploring, studying, writing and teaching about yoga.
Our Guruji passed away peacefully in August 2014, at the age of 95. Now the institute in Pune,is under the guidance of Guruji’s son, Prashant Iyengar and granddaughter Abhijata Iyengar. Guruji’s good work are now being spread all over the world by his teachers
Iyengar Yoga
The Iyengar method of Yoga is learnt through the in-depth study of asanas (posture) and pranayama (breath control).  B. K. S Iyengar has systematized over 200 classical yoga Asanas and 14 different types of Pranayamas (with variations of many of them) from the simple to the more difficult. These have been structured and categorized so as to allow a beginner to progress surely and safely from basic postures to the most advanced as they gain flexibility, strength and sensitivity in mind, body and spirit
What distinguishes Iyengar Yoga from other styles of yoga
The Iyengar method of Yoga may be said to define itself as different from other styles of Yoga by 3 key elements, namely technique, sequence and timing: 
Technique means that in practice one learns ever finer adjustments in the alignment of how one performs one’s asana and pranayama. Sequence refers to the sequences in which asana and pranayama are practiced. For example, by varying which postures are practiced after which, the mental and emotional effects of the practice can be intensified in a manner not otherwise possible. Timing refers to the length of time spent in postures or pranayama. Postures cannot be done swiftly or without awareness. It takes time to move into a posture and become stable. When this has been achieved then one remains stably for some time to intensify the depth of the posture and so extract its benefit. 
Come enjoy these special classes with a very special teacher.

TREE OF YOGA

Mr Iyengar in “Tree of Yoga” wrote:
It is relatively easy to be a teacher of an academic subject, but to be a teacher in art is very difficult, and to be a yoga teacher is the hardest of all, because yoga teachers have to be their own critics and correct their own practice. The art of yoga is entirely subjective and practical. Yoga teachers have to know the entire functioning of the body; they have to know the behaviour of the people who come to them and how to react and be ready to help, protect and safeguard their pupils.