To experience the essence of yoga or as B.K.S. Iyengar expressed, “sip the nectar of yoga” one must practice yoga often. There are no shortcuts on maintaining a daily yoga practice. Many newcomers to yoga begin as casual students. Some yoga participants may be sporadic yoga class goers or occasionally use yoga videos online. With …
Regularly practicing Iyengar Yoga can help relieve suffering. There are different reasons why we face instability and heartache during our lifetimes. Doing Iyengar Yoga helps remove the root causes of our afflictions just like one pulls weeds out of a garden. Iyengar Yoga is not limited to physical yoga postures. Reading ancient yoga texts and …
The holiday season is upon us bringing a time of many seasonal rituals. Like the holidays, spiritual practices such as yoga are marked by their own customs and procedures. Unlike the yearly rites of passage of the holidays which bring food and gifts, the aim of yogic rituals is spiritual. The goals of yoga are …
One way to be successful in yoga is to practice regularly. It is better to practice yoga for 20 minutes each day then to practice yoga for hours sporadically. Over time you will see the yoga benefits and your understanding of yoga will deepen. To help stay on track attend at least one weekly yoga …
There are different techniques and strategies to help us stay on the path of yoga. Going to weekly yoga classes taught by Certified Iyengar Yoga Teachers (CIYTs) can contribute to regularity in yoga practice. Doing yoga at the same time in the same place in your home is a way to stay on track. Wearing …
Yoga is more than exercise. Geeta Iyengar said, ” We are missing the gold if we do asanas as physical practice only.” Although there are many health benefits to yoga, the poses have a profound impact on one’s consciousness. What we gain from yoga asanas are more than the benefits of feeling good. What we …
Students learn yoga poses in a systematic way. The family of yoga postures taught first are the standing yoga poses. The feet are taught to be close together first like in Tadasana, Mountain Pose, as this is similar to how people stand normally. After introducing narrow standing yoga poses the wide standing poses are taught. …
When we first start doing yoga we work to learn and attain yoga poses. The goal becomes putting oneself in a yoga position with correct muscular and skeletal alignment. We learn and grasp how to do the yoga poses at different speeds. Once a yoga pose has been attained it must be maintained over time. …
Yoga can help us relax. By using our limbs we can put ourselves into different positions conducive to relaxation. By cultivating a state of relaxation we can feel gratitude for having achieved such place within ourselves. Relaxation is one of the goals of yoga. We try to practice the aim of relaxation. When we become …
Yoga can help us cope. Yoga can be a coping skill while teaching us coping techniques at the same time. There are therapeutic benefits when we completely focus on the breath and body. By practicing yoga we can learn how to make peaceful contact with difficult thoughts and emotions. Yoga can help us to learn …