In this episode of RunToYoga Podcast with Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Claudia Lamas Cornejo speaks with Jayne Orton, who marks fifty years of practice and forty five years of teaching Iyengar Yoga. Jayne shares how poetry and the Bhagavad Gita sparked her interest in yoga as a child, led to her first yoga class at fifteen, and why Savasana made her certain this would be lifelong. They also reflect on her first meeting with B. K. S. Iyengar, her first trip to Pune, and how the West’s relationship to yoga shifted from searching for meaning to meeting therapeutic needs, and what that changes in teaching today.

In a new episode of the RunToYoga Podcast with Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Claudia speaks with Erika Répassy, an Iyengar Yoga teacher based in Budapest. Their conversation opens the question of how knowledge in Iyengar Yoga is transmitted through practice, experience, and precise observation, and how a tradition stays alive when it is tested on the mat every day. Erika shares the path that brought her through different worlds of life into yoga, and what it means to remain a student without shortcuts. The focus is on clarity, discipline, and quiet progress built step by step.

In Episode 2 of the RunToYoga Podcast with Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Claudia speaks with Hugo Abecassis, a teacher and therapist, about anatomy and injury prevention in Iyengar Yoga. They explore how practice changes when it is adapted to the individual, how the body carries memory, and how tendencies appear long before pain does. Hugo returns to feeling and clarity, not just doing. The focus is on attention, intelligent progression, and practising with respect for structure.

In this first episode of the RunToYoga Podcast with Claudia Lamas Cornejo, Claudia talks with Elizabeth Brass, a longstanding practitioner and teacher of Iyengar Yoga based in Berlin. Elizabeth looks back on her early years in the method and her first journey to Pune in 1997 to meet Guruji.

They speak about mentorship, what makes a good Iyengar Yoga teacher, how certification has changed, and what online teaching and recordings can give and cannot replace. The conversation returns to one simple thread the future of Iyengar Yoga rests on clear lineage, personal connection, and honest practice.

RunToYoga Podcast with Claudia Lamas Cornejo is a new yoga podcast for practitioners and teachers who value clarity, precision, and thoughtful use of yoga props. In this opening teaser, Claudia invites you into a space for sincere conversations about practice, teaching, and life in the studio, rooted in the Iyengar yoga tradition and open to curious students everywhere.