Yoga: The Iyengar Way
by MEHTA, SILVAMEHTA, MIRAEdition: 1st
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 1990-04-01
Publisher(s): Knopf
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Summary
A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by Iyengar. 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs. This is our most recently published yoga book and has quickly become a backlist bestseller.
Author Biography
SILVA MEHTA was an important figure in the spreading of yoga throughout the world, especially the West. She was a disciple of B. K. S. Iyengar and helped found the Iyengar Yoga Institute in Maida Vale, London. She died in September 1994.
MIRA MEHTA, founder of and teacher at The Yogic Path in London, has studied yoga since childhood with B. K. S. Iyengar.
MIRA MEHTA, founder of and teacher at The Yogic Path in London, has studied yoga since childhood with B. K. S. Iyengar.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 6 |
| Preface | p. 7 |
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| About this Book | p. 10 |
| The Body | p. 11 |
| The Asanas | p. 12 |
| Standing Poses | p. 17 |
| Sitting Poses | p. 49 |
| Twists | p. 69 |
| Supine and Prone Poses | p. 79 |
| Inverted Poses | p. 95 |
| Balancings | p. 123 |
| Backbends | p. 133 |
| Jumpings | p. 145 |
| Relaxation | p. 149 |
| The Mind | p. 153 |
| Study of the Self | p. 154 |
| Pranayama | p. 155 |
| Pratyahara | p. 163 |
| The Philosophy of Yoga | p. 164 |
| The Soul | p. 171 |
| Surrender of the Self | p. 172 |
| Dhyana | p. 174 |
| Appendix | |
| Courses | p. 175 |
| Remedial Programs | p. 185 |
| Index | p. 188 |
| Further Reading | p. 192 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 192 |
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