The Iyengar Yoga

Yoga, which is done for me?

I know what you think, you know that yoga by the few fragments recovered in the flight here and there. When you think yoga postures you see some air complex, we see a girl sitting cross-legged, eyes closed ready to invite us into the secrets of meditation, we see Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and other Hollywood starlets, carpet Yoga in the arm and say, damn, that they succeeded! But yoga, there are many variants and all have their particularity. Besides an ongoing basis, each teacher in his own way of teaching yoga to her students, sometimes very westernized, sometimes more authentic yoga is a discipline to learn, understand and try and why not in all its forms!

So what yoga for you? Which benefits to each of its versions?

Here is some info on the most common forms of yoga, knowing of course that this is a simple overview of the discipline and the best to get an idea and see which suits us best is still to try it!

Hatha Yoga.

This is yoga as practiced in the West it is on this form of yoga that you are most likely to “fall” by registering for a course.
It consists of a series of postures to do, postures called Asana, and take some time to breath. Between relaxation, strengthening, relaxation, there is certainly work to the body but also and above all that we can find some unity between body and mind.

Allay our fears and concerns while bringing us back to our body and each of its members, its muscles, its tensions too often ignored or forgotten. Absorbed as we are working postures and breathing, it regains consciousness from our bodies and we simply forgetting the time of course what makes our daily lives. Read the rest of this entry »