Iyengar Yoga can be particularly helpful for those persons who wish to help resolve through the practice of yoga a particular health problem that afflicts them. Iyengar yoga is a therapy, a kind of medicine. Iyengar studied the deep physiological effects that yoga has on the body and applied the practice of yoga to the treatment of a host of medical conditions, such as liver and stomach problems, psoriasis, muscular complaints, and eye and hearing problems. Read more »

Iyengar Yoga is famous for the precision that is involved in the practice of yoga. Iyengar has offered to yoga the continuous intellectual precision that he has introduced in the practice of yoga. As a child Iyengar suffered from many illnesses, including typhoid, malaria, and tuberculosis. Because of his own health concerns as well as those of his students over the years, he has paid particular care to the relation of yoga to the construction of the body: anatomy, physiology, and pathology. Read more »

The Iyengar yoga style is a special type of Hatha yoga. It is characterized by the development of the perfection in the asanas, all based on positioning the different parts of the body in the correct place with a great precision in the corporal alignment. The practice of this style of Yoga is systematic and accumulative, beginning with simple postures and advancing toward the most complex of them. The Iyengar yoga can be practiced by any 7 year-old grown-up, and it doesn’t matter the sex, age or the physical condition of the practitioner. Read more »