What is Iyengar yoga:

Posted on October 15, 2009 in Latest News

Sage Patanjali has penned down all his ideas, research and skills on yoga Darshana. He defined yoga as chitta vritti nirodha. Where he relates consciousness with mind, ego and intellect. Yoga is the process through which you can silence the vibrations of chitta.

Eight aspects of yoga are:

Asanas
Pranayama
Dhyana
Dharana
Pratyahara
Yama and niyama
Samadhi

Iyengar yoga:

Yogacharya B.K.S Iyengar the creator of Iyengar yoga has masterminded the skills and techniques of yoga. Based on his research experience, it helped him to develop his technique as ‘Iyengar yoga’. Which is now being practiced by many yoga practitioners.

B.K.S Iyengar has made it possible for every human being to experience and enjoy the wisdom of yoga. He has designed few props such as belts, rope and wooden gadgets that helps the ‘yogi’s’ and ‘yogini’s’ to get perfect in asanas.

If Iyengar yoga is practised regularly, it integrates emotions, body and mind. It also emphasizes on the development of stamina, strength, balance, flexibility, meditation and concentration.

Unlike other yoga sessions, Iyengar Yoga class is high in verbal and precise, with errors and misalignment’s actively corrected. By practicing the asanas, it aims to get-together the spirit and mind for health, body and well-being. Discipline is considered as a powerful tool to release stress and promote spiritual and physical well-being.

Iyengar also developed extensive ways of allotting his practice to various disorders and diseases. Many of these problems, such as immunodeficiency, chronic backache, menopause, high blood pressure, depression and insomnia, have specific sessions of Iyengar yoga linked with them.

There have been studies conducted on the results of Iyengar yoga on patients with physical problems, and it has proved to be useful in physical therapy, as it helps in recovery of injured areas.

In another study, Iyengar yoga was shown to be promising as a treatment for behavioral change and depression. It was also concluded that yoga is cost effective, easy to implement and produces many beneficial psychological, behavioral, biological and emotional effects.

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