Bobby Clennell

Bobby Clennell | Intermediate Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher's Teacher Profile

My path to yoga was an indirect one. I was born and raised in London. I graduated from the London School of Fashion in 1961 and later, completed a two year graduate course in illustration and graphic design at St. Martins School of Art. I spent several years as a dress designer, before in 1973, starting a career in cartoon animation which was to last twenty years.

In 1973, I also discovered yoga. By then I had met and married my husband, Lindsey, and we had two children, Miles and Jake. Lindsey and I attended our first Iyengar yoga class at the suggestion of a friend. It was a pivotal moment for both of us. For me it relieved the stress and insecurity that I often experienced as a young woman. It also connected me to Indian culture, which for some inexplicable reason I had felt drawn to as a child. Perhaps it was my grandmother’s wonderfully illustrated books on India that had influenced me. It wasn’t until much later that I became aware of my families long involvement with India, and that my father was born there.
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Welcome to my iHanuman Teacher Blog

by Bobby Clennell on Jun 29, 2010 (1) Comments

Welcome to iHanuman: Love Service Devotion Yoga. We are an online community of yoga teachers dedicated to serving our students through new media. We have created a bridge between students, teachers and the ancient teachings of yoga. Please check back often for new information and updates. In the meantime, you may want to browse Our [...]

Spring 2012 May 12, 2012
In early March I taught a Workshop for Shaaron Honeycutt at  Allied Yoga, in  Charlottesville, VA. It was a joy to meet the teaching team there. Sara Pope Agelasto came and recorded the workshop for her website iHanuman. These recordings will be available for download soon. I am currently making drawings of the poses I [...] […]
Kids Love Yoga March 7, 2012
Here are the latest photos of kids who were inspired by my book Watch Me Do Yoga. Keep sending your pictures in! These two brothers from Taiwan, 蔡英斌 — Tsai, ying bin and 蔡旻翰 — Tsai, min han, have a good feel for rope–work. These two boys like hanging around: Seraphine, daughter of Lauren Zavlunov, at Jewels of Saraswati, practices [...] […]
Pune 2012 February 15, 2012
My youngest son Jake and I arrived in Pune on Wednesday 1st February at around 4 am. I attended a 9.30 am Women’s class taught by Guruji and Abhijata. It was a special “jet lag class”. We began with some supported inversions, some of which I had never seen done in quite the same way [...] […]
kids love yoga, encore November 13, 2011
Keep sending your pictures in! Here are the latest collection of kids who were inspired by my book Watch Me Do Yoga. […]
Fourth Yoga Rahasya cover November 9, 2011
Here’s a sneak preview of the last of the four Yoga Rahasya covers that I designed this year. I painted it many years ago as background material for my animated short Yoga Yantra. As it turned out, I did not take Yoga Yantra to complete color production, so this painting was never used. I’m happy [...] […]
August Workshop in Punta Gorda 2011 September 6, 2011
At the Yoga Sanctuary’s new premises in Punta Gorda, Florida, I taught my second summer workshop, beginning on Friday evening, August 11, with a class for breast cancer patients and survivors. On Saturday, we moved to the Punta Gorda Women’s Club, a ‘heritage’ building next door for the menopause and post menopause workshop, as the class was too [...] […]
Southeast Asia Workshops July 24, 2011
Many thanks to Sandrine Laborde for hosting me, and to the students who made me feel so welcome at Iyengar Yoga Singapore in June. Teaching this three- day workshop gave me a window into the harmonious and multi cultural society of Singapore, which is made up of equal parts Chinese, Indian and Malayan ethnicities. I [...] […]
The Iyengar Yoga Institute New York Yogathon: Children’s class June 19, 2011
Can you walk like a bear? Curl up small like a mouse? Or stretch your leg like a cat? Can you push up into a wheel? Or fold up like a sandwich? Rest Photos by Liam Cunningham. Billy Cunningham photography. […]
Lucienne Vidah May 27, 2011
This is Lucienne Vidah, one of the twenty -three teachers at the Iyengar Yoga Institute of Greater New York. She is wearing the new limited edition tee-shirt that I designed to commemorate the up-coming Yogathon being held at the Institute on Sunday June 5th. The drawings of B.K.S. Iyengar practicing were extrapolated from one of [...] […]