John Ferrabee is a fully registered and insured teacher of the Iyengar® Yoga Association. He is one of just a couple of hundred people in the UK, qualified and registered to teach this demanding but satisfying discipline.
His classes cover introductory levels 1 and 2, and intermediate levels 1,2 and 3 with classes for all levels of ability from raw beginners to experienced practitioners. He also has an honorary contract with the National Health Service teaching yoga to sufferers of chronic lower back pain for whom conventional medicine has no answers.
John, who is a talented sportsman – he swam for the county and played rugby to a high level – came to yoga in 1988 whilst recovering from a serious car accident, which broke his legs, arms and ribs and punctured his lung. Yoga aided his recovery in a way drugs and physiotherapy did not and made him determined to pass on its benefits to others.
He then undertook a rigorous five year training programme, part of it at Pune in India the headquarters of the Iyengar Yoga Association, before gaining his teaching certificate in 1995.
John believes that anyone of any age and any level of fitness can benefit from yoga but especially sportsmen and women for whom it provides additional muscle strength and flexibility.
"Yoga is untainted by our modern way of life. It is an organic process that can help people cope with all aspects of modern living. Your joints, your spine, even your internal organs will be energised by the positions that yoga teaches,” he says.
