Sad news came last week that Marcia Monroe has passed away in her home town of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. We wish her family, friends, and all students who benefitted from her teachings and knowledge our sincere condolences. We miss you Marcia.
It’s hard to lose one’s teacher, to know now that future guidance on one’s path is now gone. Marcia in her six Berlin Workshops for Scoliosis (2016-2022) left many many impressions, and showed us through her own example, a way with which Iyengar Yoga can support and indeed transform those living with scoliosis.
Marcia Monroe was a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher with strong ties to BKS Iyengar’s Institute in Pune, India. She taught regularly at the New York Iyengar Yoga Institute as well as worldwide in workshops for scoliosis.
Author of: ‘Yoga and Scoliosis, a journey to health and healing’ Demos Medical Publishing 2012, she passed on her valuable insight and experience with practising Iyengar Yoga with this condition.
Her words: „My teacher, B.K.S. Iyengar, said that compression leads to deformity. He gave us his brilliant system to uncover the veil of distortions and compressions through the practice of asanas, and the use of various props to provide extension and bring space to the compressive areas.“ (Yoga and Scoliosis.)
Namaste Marcia