Nicholas Manjoine

nicholas@manjoine.com

Iyengar Yoga South Bay drew me because of the precision of the instruction and the experience of being adjusted. Over time, I felt myself becoming more intelligent in my body, and I found the practice led me to observe myself, psychologically and intellectually. Early on, I also completed a 200-hour Ashtanga yoga certification at Mount Madonna Center, but the Iyengar method remained my home. My longtime teachers, Linda Bostrom and Jito Yumibe, keep me curious and returning to the mat, and workshops with senior teachers such as Marla Apt and Michael Lucy, and Brian Hogencamp always brought a sense of renewal. I began studying Iyengar the principles of teaching 2014 to deepen my practice, and I started a formal mentorship with Jito in 2022 receiving my Level 1 Iyengar Yoga level 1certification 2026.

I first got introduced to yoga via a college life drawing class where my instructor invited me to join a yoga session. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, after I moved to the Bay Area and was living with chronic pain, that yoga became a real part of my life.

An educator for most of my working life, my years in the classroom shaped how I approach teaching yoga: I try to communicate joyfully and systematically, challenging students while offering support, inspiration. My two teaching lives inform each other, and I’ve found the principles of yoga increasingly alive in my academic teaching.

I appreciate the body and mind connection yoga promotes and its emphasis to avoid future suffering that Yoga Sutras express as heyam duhkham anagatam or “The pain which is yet to come is to be avoided” (2.16). My study of the Sutras, particularly of tapas and svadhyaya, continue to shape how I understand teaching as an iterative process and as a path that draws me into ever deeper study, whether through reading, meditation, or my own asana practice. Yoga can begin, and deepen, at any stage of life. And I’m eager to share with my students.

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