Yoga the Iyengar Way
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Yoga the Iyengar Way is a 1990 guide to Iyengar Yoga, a style of modern yoga as exercise, by the yoga teachers Silva Mehta and her children Mira Mehta and Shyam Mehta. They were among the first teachers to be trained by B. K. S. Iyengar outside India.
Cover of first edition, showing Mira Mehta in Utthita Trikonasana. The title appears also in Sanskrit as Yoga Marg.
The book closely integrates text and photographs, showing how to enter the pose, here Virabhadrasana I, how to work within it, and how to use props such as yoga bricks to work correctly if the pose is found difficult. The effect is "rather more approachable" than Iyengar's own presentation.
1991 ten-rupee Indian postage stamp marked "Utthita trikonasana"
Iyengar Yoga
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Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling 1966 book Light on Yoga, is a form of yoga as exercise that has an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment in the performance of yoga postures (asanas).
Utthita Trikonasana, with a Yoga brick to assist correct alignment
BKS Iyengar Centre House: Iyengar with yoga teacher Malcolm Strutt in London, 1971. Photo by John Hills
Sarvangasana with a chair, belt, blanket and bolster in a therapeutic use of yoga
Vasisthasana using props