Renowned Ashtanga Yoga practitioner Chuck Miller writes: One does not need to be an practitioner of the Iyengar style to appreciate this text. It is not just written well, it draws from a series of classical Yoga texts and digests it into an easy to understand essay coupled with Iyengar’s experience. The clear text would be introduction in LIght On Yoga. I often reflect on the reading materials that I first encountered when I came to Yoga and what continues to guide me on my path. There is now so much information about Asana on the internet and in books, that a new comer to yoga may be easily overwhelmed. He commented that when he started Yoga, there was no written material on the subject of Asana. In the address, he showed two books that were recently pressed from the Institute. Iyengar during the 2013 Guru Poornima, which is an annual observance and celebration of all of our teachers. This book has also been translated into Dutch under the title: Yoga Dipika (Light on yoga).I was watching a video of B.K.S. It is completed with a cross-index of the postures (asanas) and pranayama (breathing) with a short explanation of the used concepts in both Sanskrit and English. The book contains a complete practice and development program that stretches a period of 300 weeks! For a great spectrum of medical problems and discomforts information is provided on both the postures (asanas) and breathing exercises and sequences with a cross-index to the detailed elaboration of the postures in the book. It also provides an introduction on pranayama (control of breathing), Bandhas (control over certain parts of the body) and Kriyas (Actions/Activities). The book starts with the question: “What is yoga?” and continues with the complete details of how more than 200 postures (asanas) should be performed. It is being referred to as the most complete, most practical en best illustrated work in the field of yoga, with more than 600 photo’s. This “Bible” in the field of yoga has been translated into many languages. This book, with a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, is the biggest and most important work in the area of yoga, which was released for the first time in 1965.
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