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  2. Iyengar Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Iyengar Yoga, named after and developed by B. K. S. Iyengar, and described in his bestselling [1] 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 ().

  3. B. K. S. Iyengar - Wikipedia

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    B.K.S. Iyengar was born into a poor Sri Vaishnava Iyengar family [10] in Bellur, Kolar district, [11] Karnataka, India. He was the 11th of 13 children (10 of whom survived) born to Sri Krishnamachar, a school teacher, and Sheshamma. [ 12 ]

  4. Light on Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika (Sanskrit: योग दीपिका, "Yoga Dīpikā") is a 1966 book on the Iyengar Yoga style of modern yoga as exercise by B. K. S. Iyengar, first published in English. It describes more than 200 yoga postures or asanas, and is illustrated with some 600 monochrome photographs of Iyengar demonstrating these.

  5. List of Iyengars - Wikipedia

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    B. K. S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014) - Founder of Iyengar Yoga; Tirumalai Krishnamacharya (1888 - 1989) - Yoga teacher, often referred to as the "Father of modern Yoga" Krishna Srinivas, poet, founder of World Poetry Society and World Congress of Poets. Indira Parthasarathy (b 1930) - writer, playwright, scholar

  6. Bakasana - Wikipedia

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    [6] [12] According to B.K.S. Iyengar there are two techniques for entering the poses. The simple method is by pushing up from a crouching position. The advanced method is to drop down from Shirshasana (yoga headstand). [6] Some vinyasa yoga practitioners jump in and out of Crane/Crow via Downward-Facing Dog Pose. This can be practised in stages.

  7. Vanda Scaravelli - Wikipedia

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    Vanda Scaravelli (1908 - 1999) is known for her contribution to the practice of yoga in the West. She learnt yoga as an early student of two of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya's pupils, B. K. S. Iyengar who taught her the asanas, and T. K. V. Desikachar who taught her pranayama (yoga breathing).

  8. Mulabandhasana - Wikipedia

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    The yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar claimed in his 1966 book Light on Yoga that Mulabandhasana helps to control excessive sexual desire. [1] Mula Bandha, which can be practised also in other asanas, is one of the three principal bandhas, along with Jalandhara Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha (which precede it).

  9. Shirshasana - Wikipedia

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    In the Supported Headstand (Salamba Shirshasana), the body is completely inverted, and held upright supported by the forearms and the crown of the head. [9] In his Light on Yoga, B. K. S. Iyengar uses a forearm support, with the fingers interlocked around the head, for the basic posture Shirshasana I and its variations; he demonstrates a Western-style tripod headstand, the palms of the hands ...