View a range of youtube videos on Iyengar Yoga and related subjects including interviews and historical footage.
View a range of youtube videos on Iyengar Yoga and related subjects including interviews and historical footage.
This TedX talk Lorimer Moseley outlines the pain pathway in the body and makes a compelling case for why pain is an unreliable guide to working with the body. He goes on to describe how mind interprets and mediates the sensations we experience. Things are not always how they first appear.
This video is a brief history of Iyengar and his development as a teacher.
Yoga is described as a study of consciousness and its function. This TED talk is a modern discourse on this age old question
This TED talk examines the link between experience versus memory and is an example of how modern thought and Yogic practice is converging. In the yoga sutra patanjali identifies the 5 vrttis ( the movements or modifications in the consciousness- citta). Of these, pramana ( direct perception) and smrtti (memory) relate closely to the concepts in this talk
A visual illustration of the concept of “comparative length” . A key concept of the Iyengar teachings of yoga. This video was made in Pune, India in 2009.
Comparative length is not merely an example of correct alignment but of the capacity of the student to discern and differentiate their own experience.
In Iyengar yoga, working with ropes is refer to as Yoga Kurunta (a Kurunta is a puppet in South Indian theater). Recorded in Pune in 2009. Geetaji is able to skillfully link the advantages of using the props (the ropes in this case) for the physical benefit of our practice with the deeper philosophical meaning of using the yogic practice to progress on the path of freedom from bondage.
Trikonasana with Geeta Iyengar is an excerpt of a class taught by Geeta Iyengar at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune India
This 1938 cine film is a wonderful piece of archive footage of BKS Iyengar practicing
Yoga training, 1968 Bombay, from Louis Malle's documentary Bomaby 1969.This is a fascinating video of B.K.S. Iyengar teaching yoga in 1968, in Bombay. Look at the mix of younger and older students (there's at least one child, and at least one rather old man). Look at how they're doing Sirsasana (headstand) in the middle of the room.
This is a video of Garth McLean and his unconventional battle with Multiple Sclerosis. Garth is a practitioner and a teacher of Iyengar Yoga. Through the results of his practice, Garth has enlightened members of the medical community who attest to his able management of the disease.