Iyengar yoga is practice for everyone. It is a practice for all abilities and all bodies. Whether you are looking to increase flexibility or strength, add a bit of relaxation and calm to your life, or nourish your soul, Iyengar yoga has something to offer you. Teachers are rigorously trained, requiring at least 3 years of study prior to their first level of certification, with the option of pursuing 14 levels of certification. A wide variety of poses are taught using individualized instruction and props to meet all students needs.
Iyengar students begin with an emphasis on standing poses and over time add more advanced poses including inversions, backbends, forward bends, twists, restorative poses and more. Pranayama, breath work, is introduced as students enter intermediary practice. Sequencing is an art and a science in Iyengar yoga. Teachers create sequences for each class to assist students in deepening their own understanding of mind and body through the yoga postures. Students are encouraged to develop a home practice, to make their study of yoga complete.
Iyengar yoga is grounded in the ancient and sacred Indian art of yoga. Patanjali wrote about Astanga Yoga or the eight-fold path towards spiritual fulfillment in The Yoga Sutras over 2,500 years ago. Yoga is the uniting of the body, mind and spirit. In your Iyengar yoga classes you will begin this journey through the practice of physical postures, asanas, and have the opportunity to deepen your practice through sutra study, pranayama (breath work), and meditation.
While B.K.S. Iyengar can be accredited for making the practice of yoga more accessible, infusing the often physical practice with a spiritual journey, and spreading yoga to the West, he claimed that there was no such thing as Iyengar yoga, only Patanjali's yoga. Mr. Iyengar began his study of yoga with his guru, T. Krishnamacharya as a young boy. He continued to grow and share his practice in his adulthood through the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India until a few days before his death at the age of 95 on August 20th, 2014. Mr. Iyengar's daughter, Geeta S. Iyengar and son, Prashant S. Iyengar, carry on the work of their father as chief teachers at the Institute.
To learn more about Iyengar yoga, visit the Iyengar National Association of the United States (IYNAUS).
Iyengar students begin with an emphasis on standing poses and over time add more advanced poses including inversions, backbends, forward bends, twists, restorative poses and more. Pranayama, breath work, is introduced as students enter intermediary practice. Sequencing is an art and a science in Iyengar yoga. Teachers create sequences for each class to assist students in deepening their own understanding of mind and body through the yoga postures. Students are encouraged to develop a home practice, to make their study of yoga complete.
Iyengar yoga is grounded in the ancient and sacred Indian art of yoga. Patanjali wrote about Astanga Yoga or the eight-fold path towards spiritual fulfillment in The Yoga Sutras over 2,500 years ago. Yoga is the uniting of the body, mind and spirit. In your Iyengar yoga classes you will begin this journey through the practice of physical postures, asanas, and have the opportunity to deepen your practice through sutra study, pranayama (breath work), and meditation.
While B.K.S. Iyengar can be accredited for making the practice of yoga more accessible, infusing the often physical practice with a spiritual journey, and spreading yoga to the West, he claimed that there was no such thing as Iyengar yoga, only Patanjali's yoga. Mr. Iyengar began his study of yoga with his guru, T. Krishnamacharya as a young boy. He continued to grow and share his practice in his adulthood through the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India until a few days before his death at the age of 95 on August 20th, 2014. Mr. Iyengar's daughter, Geeta S. Iyengar and son, Prashant S. Iyengar, carry on the work of their father as chief teachers at the Institute.
To learn more about Iyengar yoga, visit the Iyengar National Association of the United States (IYNAUS).