Kevin Gardiner

Senior certified Iyengar yoga instructor

Kevin Gardiner, a native New Yorker, began studying yoga in 1970 and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1982. He has had the great good fortune to have studied twice in India with the Iyengar family for extended periods each time. He is indebted and eternally grateful for the genius and compassion of BKS Iyengar, his daughter Geeta and son Prashant whose tireless dedication to the subject is the heart of Inspiration.

He was a co-founder of the Iyengar Institute of Greater New York serving on it's Executive Committee and in various leadership roles continuously since it's inception. In the States Mary Dunn has been a guiding light and his primary teacher since the early 80's and he has been inspired by the teachings of Manouso Manos, Ramamand Patel, John Schumacher, Faeq Biria, Jawahar Bangera, Dean Learner, to name a few. He has held a Junior Intermediate III Teaching Certificate since 1988, and will be returning India for further study in Fall '09.

Until December 2006 Kevin also had his own yoga studio in Manhattan. He then married Erika, also a certified Iyengar teacher, and relocated to Erika's home town of Budapest where they have set up a new home and are now teaching at their own studio. Over the years he has travelled extensively, teaching in North and South America, as well as many years and countless workshops in his ancestrial home of Ireland.

A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kevin was a professional actor, director and teacher for 15 years, including seven years of touring Shakespearean productions in traditional repertory style. Along the way he also sustained a ten year practice of Tai Chi and Shaolin Kung Fu.

His teaching is highly detailed and textured, seamlessly incorporating many components of yoga philosophy and the sutras, while continuously challenging students to gain greater sensitivity and awareness in each asana. He has a tremendous pracaitcal understanding of the living anatomy of the human body, and a lighthearted and off-beat sense of humor.

Mobile phone: +36-20-977-3919

Erika Répássy

Certified Iyengar yoga instructor - Intermediate Junior level 3

I found yoga after years in tourism, marketing, dance and music. Living abroad for a long while I had the opportunity to study with leading Iyengar yoga teachers in Europe and the USA creating a strong bond between yoga and myself.

I started the exploration of the Iyengar method in the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, London in 2002, followed by further tuition in Dublin where I also got certified in 2006 and later in the Institute of New York City. I feel privileged for having the chance of taking workshops with insightful and inspiring teachers including Guruji, BKS Iyengar himself at the Yoga Journal Conference, Estes Park, Colorado in 2005.

My present teacher is my husband, Kevin Gardiner (USA) who is a constant inspiration in my life. I have been twice to the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune, India where I’m returning at the end of the year.

Mobile phone: +36-20-555-4167