JUDY SMITH was born and educated in South Africa, where she studied at the University of the Witwatersrand. She began practicing yoga in the early 1970s and after having children, trained as an Iyengar teacher at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, London, qualifying in 1989. Judy teaches classes all over London, including a remedial class at the Iyengar Institute in London, classes at Triyoga and children's classes. She regularly visits the mother institute in Pune, India, where she attends courses taught by B.K.S. Iyengar, his daughter Geeta and his son Prachant.