Established in 1979 as the first BKS Iyengar Yoga Center in Southern California, the Iyengar Yoga Center of San Diego operates from 4869 Santa Monica Ave under Senior Advanced-level certified Iyengar teachers with 20+ pilgrimages to study with the Iyengar family at the institute in Pune, India. The studio is fully equipped with a large rope wall and the full Iyengar prop arsenal — belts, blocks, bolsters, chairs, and benches — enabling the precise joint-by-joint alignment work that dovetails with orthopedic rehab at Halsey Physical Therapy. All instructors have completed a minimum of seven years of training before certification, and the center runs its own 2-year Teacher Training Course on a rolling basis. The Iyengar method's therapeutic emphasis on disc, SI-joint, and shoulder dysfunction makes it a natural complement to the spinal-alignment caseload at Laura J. Hershey, DC. Workshops with the co-directors run multiple times per year, and the center has hosted both the Yoga 90 Iyengar Convention and the 2012 National Teachers Convention. The deepest engagement is the 2-year Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher training cohort, which combines asana precision, anatomy and physiology for yoga practitioners, pranayama, and philosophy over several hundred contact hours.