Iyengar Yoga is a branch of the yoga tree.
Its name comes from its founder Yogacharya B.K.S.Iyengar.
Iyengar has masterminded a series of techniques that are founded on the great Indian sage and alleged founder promoter of Yoga, Patanjali.
His 'eight limbs' of Yoga, are for all yoga systems, the starting point and basis of practice.
Iyengar's skill was to develop a series of postures and techniques that enables any person to be able to practice yoga safely and with confidence.
"Research based experience" and "experience based research" has helped him in evolving this technique which is now known as"Iyengar Yoga". He has therefore made it possible for ordinary human beings to experience the wisdom of the yoga sutras (the wisom of Yoga as written down by Patanjali).
B.K.S. Iyengar's yoga books are popular with not only his devotees but across the global yoga community. Iyengar yoga books are deeply informative and his research and qualifications as a master yoga practitioner are undoubted.
The BKS Iyengar book 'Light on Yoga' is one of the great all time classics and popular with yoga students as a course workbook in their teacher training courses.
Pranayama is the breathing practices that form a fundamental part of yoga and his "Light on Pranayama" is one book on breathing techniques that does not come any better or more informed.
One Iyengar Yoga advanced postures book is the excellent -"Yoga - the Iyengar Way" by Silva Mehra and Shyam Mehta. Its illustrations are excellent for getting to know the correct postural alignment.
A great and popular Iyengar teacher whose DVDs and videos really help students is Ruth White. Her Iyengar DVD Yoga Postures is a brillliant one for both beginner and adept alike.
Yoga for Pregancy is a choice thaqt many women make. The benefits of Yoga for both mother and baby are many. Ruth White's Yoga for Pregnancy DVD is one of the very best DVDs on the market for this.
Yoga Teacher training and specifically Iyengar teacher training courses are run by Ruth White. For all who wish to follow this path of yoga her expertise and long years as one of BKS Iyengar's long-term followers make her teacher training course essential.
Iyengar holidays and retreats are one way of experiencing yoga and in this respect not only does Ruth White run year round weekends, retreats and holidays but there are great yoga experiences run by Rachel and Hanna Lovegrove, two sisters who are long term Iyengar teachers
