Iir Prihatinawati

Hi, I am Iir Prihatinawati, I am teaching Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and forrest yoga. I am from Borneo, the Indonesian side, now in cambridge since 2015. At the moment - i am only receiving in person session (ask via "contact"), and few online classes.

My yoga journey began early over two decades ago to help with asthma. I had several intervention operations with respiration organs, dengue fevers, thypus, etc etc, so back to be healthy and keeping healthy into my best performance with the best way my body allow me tobe is something very familiar. No, I dont have cancer, HIV, endocrines issues, etc etc, or structural manipulation to my body or things like that, so i can not compare to you who had been experiencing it but I can understand where the direction we all want to in life. .

I am tho familiar with keeping my cardio vascular healthy as well as regulating my breath.

I graduated from Frog Lotus Yoga (FLY) International specialising in teaching Vinyasa. in 2015, then Advanced Forrest Yoga with Ana Forrest in 2016, Foundations Forrest Yoga with Jambo Dragon and Sinhe Yee, Mentorships, Bodyworks and many other CPDs with Brian Campbell and Jambo, both as trainee as well as Asisstant..

My personal practice is strongly influenced by Vinyasa, Forrest and Ashtanga.

MY students said I am good with my hand assists and my sequencing, thanks to my teahers and students who tought me how to. I taught languages for 15 years and has masters for Psychology of education and learning for special needs and the gifted, so teaching is something I am very familiar with. Not everyone grasp yoga and languages in literal way, as neither I am ever, so it is my honour to take you to journey of how I see the poses to toward our peaks, either it is something clasic or something funky.

My classes are generally characterised by three key elements.

1. Connection between breath and movement. Focusing on your breathing encourages you to focus on your own body rather than those around you, making you more aware of its strengths but also its limitations.

2. Asana integrity and hands-on assists. By moving around the class as I teach, I help you become more aware of your muscular activity, keeping your body correctly aligned in each pose and engage the relevant muscles, which allows you to get deeper into the pose.

3. Mindfulness. As you focus within, maintaining your muscular integrity, you are encouraged to understand yoga as a personal journey of physical and mental fulfilment and improvement. Everyone follows their own journey in life and in yoga, but all living bodies are a wonder. Appreciate yours not what it can’t do, but for what it can.