Iyengar yoga is one of the more traditional types of yoga, and I believe it is truly one form of yoga that holds the tremendous powers to benefit and heal the body. There are countless reasons to do Iyengar yoga, but here are eight of the top reasons to give this practice a try.
You don’t need to be able to touch your toes to do Iyengar, but if you practice it, that may be one side effect you ...
Continue Reading →In this video, Iyengar, who descendants, students, and admirers fondly called “Guruji,” demonstrates and expresses his purest intentions in the form of asana, with nothing but the floor, space, gravity, and himself as tools.
Many of us weren’t around or into yoga early enough to witness how Guruji himself practiced, so this barebones, unembellished rendering of long, single takes of the yoga guru during his moving meditation is both a privilege and delight to see
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As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations, Joy and the team at North Shore Iyengar Yoga are offering Free Yoga Classes for all levels across an entire week. Classes will be suitable for beginners through to more advanced students, it is a chance to experience yoga for the first time or practice with other yoga enthusiasts.
Please indicate below the Free Class you would like to attend and we will confirm subject to availability.
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Continue Reading →Part one of a Iyengar Yoga demonstration that Glenn Ceresoli, a senior Iyengar yoga teacher from Australia, gave at the 8th New Zealand Hindu conference in 2008.
Series of Iyengar asana poses highlighting the technique and alignment that comes from years of dedicated Iyengar yoga practice.
This is a beautiful, if scratchy video of BKS Iyengar, made when he was at his prime in 1977 when he was only 59!
Go to 12 minutes into the video where Iyengar is practicing with a small advanced class. An incredible Vinyasa with transitions from Ardho Mukha Svanasana straight to Bakasana.
Then there is that individual practice of balancing poses from Sirsasana II which is still taught in Calgary by Norman Sjoman. who studied with Iyengar in the 1960’s ...