In Memoriam Helen Green, Judi Soffa

Helen Green

1 October 1951–13 January 2021

Photography: Paul Foster

Helen Green, a long-standing Iyengar yoga teacher, sadly passed away suddenly on the 13 January this year. It was a tremendous shock to our yoga community in Liverpool, where she lived and taught. Helen began attending Iyengar yoga classes with myself in 1979 at the Lark Lane Community Centre. Later, after she had more free time from her family commitments, Helen trained to teach. Helen taught yoga in Liverpool city centre, next door to the Everyman Theatre in Hope Street, Liverpool for many years.

She continued her practice and commitment to Iyengar yoga throughout her life, attending regular yoga holidays in the UK with Sasha Perryman and also in Goa with Gerry Chambers and Linda Purvis. While in Goa, Helen took a special interest in a local charity for migrant workers and would make donations and bring items for them from the UK.

In recognition of Helen’s sincere charitable ethos and her commitment to Iyengar yoga, her partner, Paul Foster, raised a generous amount of £3,730, which he very kindly donated to the Iyengar Yoga Bellur Trust this year, for which we are most grateful and especially so, at this time in India.

Helen’s fellow yoga teachers, practitioners and her students will sorely miss her, and on behalf of all of us, we sincerely express our heartfelt condolences to her family, her children, grandchildren and lifelong partner, Paul.

Judi Soffa, colleague and friend 