{"id":13248,"date":"2016-03-22T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/shamagazine\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2023-10-18T11:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:53:01","slug":"iyengar-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/iyengar-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Specificities and benefits of Iyengar yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being decades old, perhaps you knew of the existence of Iyengar Yoga recently, as Yoga has become a trendy practice all over the world. However, it is not a novelty in yoga, as B.K.S. Iyengar created it in the 40s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A life dedicated to yoga <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Born in a very poor Indian family, he suffered several diseases during his childhood. To improve his health, he started practicing yoga until he became a guru. When he was 15, he started living with his brother in law, the famous yogi Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya<\/a>, who sent him to Pune. It was there where he began to teach and to develop his own discipline<\/strong>. Later his students gave his yoga style the name of Iyengar Yoga<\/strong> in order to differentiate it from others types. He is also one of the yogis who introduced yoga in the western world\u2019s way of life.<\/p>\n

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Pata\u00f1jali yoga based<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Pata\u00f1jali (a relevant character in the Indian Literature) wrote the sutras yogas, a text in which the science of yoga is systematized for the first time. It teaches the way to follow to practice yoga, which is divided in 8 points:<\/p>\n