Annie Schliffer

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Annie Schliffer has been a full-time studio potter for forty-four years, working at The Rochester Folk Guild, an intentional community dedicated to the study of crafts, organic gardening, and the study and practice of Gurdjieff ideas. (www.rfag.org). A yoga student and teacher, she integrates the craft of pottery with the practice of yoga.

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How to Open Ourselves Out: A Conversation with Abhijata Iyengar

July 28, 2018By Annie Schliffer

Exploring yoga with the guru’s granddaughter

The Yoga Master at Ninety, an Interview with B.K.S. Iyengar

June 21, 2016By Annie Schliffer

Born in India in 1918, B.K.S. Iyengar has been teaching yoga since the age of seventeen. An innovative and exacting teacher for more than sixty years, he has guided the establishment of many centers of Iyengar Yoga worldwide. His message is “Yoga is for everyone.”

In his heralded poem “Burnt Norton,” T.S. Eliot speaks of “The still point of the turning world,” a near perfect expression of Change and the Changeless. Eliot attended lectures in 1920s London by the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky, featured in this Spring 2019 issue of Parabola; no surprise as the search for that still point is a perennial spiritual quest, one that has inspired seekers from the Buddha to Thoreau, Thomas Merton, and countless others including G.I. Gurdjieff, Ouspensky’s own teacher. Read more>

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Annie Schliffer

About the Author

How to Open Ourselves Out: A Conversation with Abhijata Iyengar

The Yoga Master at Ninety, an Interview with B.K.S. Iyengar

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

To Go Beyond Thought, an Interview with Karen Armstrong