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Iyengar Yoga Ivanhoe

YOGA CLASSES ABOVE IVANHOE HEALTH FOOD STORE

Our yoga classes are now called Body Mind Breath Yoga we now have a separate website for yoga. Follow the link to our new yoga website online booking can be done from that site

 

www.bmbyoga.com

 

What is Iyengar Yoga.

 

The Iyengar approach to yoga is firmly based on the traditional eight limbs of yoga expounded by Patanjali in his classic treatise, The Yoga Sutras, written over 2,500 years go. It is a disciplined and deeply research system developed over 75 years by Yogacharya BKS Iyengar who until his death in August 2014 (aged 94) practiced daily – exploring, studying, writing and teaching about yoga.

 

"Yoga means union. The union of the individual soul with the Universal Spirit is yoga. But this is too abstract a notion to be easily understood, so for our level of understanding I say that yoga is the union of body with the mind and of mind with the soul”. – BKS Iyengar, Tree of Yoga.

 

What is unique about Iyengar Yoga is that it is characterised in the practice of asana and pranayama with the innovative approach emphasising precision and alignment, planned sequencing, timing and the use of props. This approach has allowed people of varying ages, levels of health and fitness to enjoy the benefits which a sustained practice can bring – the ability to face the physical, mental and emotional challenges of contemporary life with strength, vitality, mobility, thoughtfulness and equanimity.

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Patrick Costello

 B.Sc., Masters of Occupational Therapy, R.T.

Certified Iyengar Yoga

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