You’ll Cultivate Inner Awareness With Pranayama Iyengar based his teachings on Pantanjali’s Yoga Sutras and Light on Yoga explains the Eight Limbs of Yoga in an easy to digest manner. The introduction of the book is a great start for yogis looking to understand more about the philosophy beyond asana. Iyengar himself even models them in the book.

You will learn proper alignment and how to perform postures safely and correctly. It’s clear, easy to follow, gives you all the therapeutic benefits, tips and tricks, and contradictions. Iyengar provides detailed instructions on all of our favourite asanas. Why do we think you should check it out? 1. It’s such an important text in the yoga community that it’s even required reading for most yoga teacher training programs (it was for mine!). If you’re going to read one yoga text to deepen your practice, it has to be Iyengar’s Light on Yoga, now considered a modern yoga classic. Luckily for us who didn’t have that chance, he left a legacy of fantastic teachers, and a mini library of reference texts into which he poured his 75 years of daily yoga study. Students from around the world flocked to Pune, India to study under him. To Iyengar, “Yoga like God, is one.” Yoga For AllĪrguably the most important gift Iyengar gave us in his 95 years as Guruji was the belief that yoga should be, and is, accessible to all. Iyengar himself didn’t like to refer to it as “Iyengar yoga,” as he felt it was wrong to differentiate or brand yoga. You can thank Iyengar for that glorious block in Ardha Chandrasana or for the strap in Janu Sirsasana. Now referred to as Iyengar yoga, his style and teachings emphasize precision and alignment, planned sequencing, timing, and the use of props. Iyengar was a world-renowned yoga guru who brought the art of yoga to the West.

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