![]() ![]() Anyone who has studied yoga, the Yoga Sutras especially, will know asana – posture – is but a part of the yogic path, and has an original aim of cultivating Sthira and Sukha – steadfastness and ease. It’s easy to look at this as a “pose fest”, and undoubtedly some readers will, but it misses the point. ![]() I would have to confess that some of the postures seem to me all but unachievable in terms of strength, range or motion or flexibility, but the photograph says otherwise demonstrating that with time, practice and patience opportunities open up. You are left a little overwhelmed, so after a first read the detail is probably best returned to as necessary – when exploring something new or looking for a different angle on something already embodied. ![]() Light on Yoga covers the core of Hatha Yoga as we know it today focusing inevitably on asana (postures) – 200 of them, with 500 pictures, and graded on complexity. I’ve dipped into these books before, but never studied them in depth, and so for my recent holiday I took them with me for some quality reading time.Īt 450 and 300 pages each, they are not for the faint hearted! It’s fair to say they are probably not written as beginners texts either, more a comprehensive manual on Hatha Yoga (Light on Yoga) and on Pranayama (Light on Pranayama). Two masterpiece works by Iyengar, some would say the Grandfather of modern Hatha Yoga. ![]()
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