2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Strive to improve your body and mind? Get out your rug and try Iyengar yoga! This popular yoga area is suitable for people of all ages and fitness levels.
The founder of this trend, Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar, has developed a complex, the main feature of which is a deep study of each pose. No special endurance or strength is required here. For this reason, Iyengar Yoga is available to anyone of any gender, age and fitness.
The main goal of Iyengar yoga is a detailed adjustment of asanas with a gradual deepening. Moreover, you can complicate the practice at your own pace, using a variety of equipment: bricks, ribbons, rollers.
Iyengar yoga is primarily aimed at gaining a healthy body and mind. Do not be alarmed if the lesson begins with a mantra: immersion in the religious component is not required here. Also, at first, you don't have to pay special attention to breathing. Pranayama training begins only after mastering at least simple asanas, since Iyengar believed that without conscious control over the body, the correct implementation of breathing exercises is not available to a person.
Thanks to a long stay in the pose, muscles, ligaments and joints are worked out, as well as internal organs are massaged. A person achieves tranquility and harmony.
In general, Iyengar yoga can be considered a universal direction. Unless too energetic people who find it difficult to concentrate, it is better to start with classical hatha yoga or dynamic ashtanga vinyasa.
To try: a lesson for beginners
You can try Iyengar yoga with Elena Kahn's video tutorial. This complex will help strengthen and stretch the leg muscles, increase strength and flexibility.
For those who liked Iyengar yoga: deepening the practice
If you feel that Iyengar’s approach is close to you, recordings of seminars by reputable teachers of this field (Lois Steinberg) and (Gabriella Giubilaro) will help you to continue your independent studies. It is better to listen to instructions in Russian to do the asanas correctly.
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