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  2. Light on Yoga - Wikipedia

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    Light on Yoga has become known as the "bible" of yoga; [1] [2] Publishers Weekly wrote that it "set the standard" for books about yoga, with instructions and illustrations of the poses. [2] The yoga scholar Mark Singleton , writing in Yoga Journal , called the presentation of the asanas "unprecedented" and "encyclopedic", [ 3 ] describing Light ...

  3. B. K. S. Iyengar - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] He was the author of many books on yoga practice and philosophy including Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, and Light on Life. Iyengar was one of the earliest students of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, who is often referred to as "the father of modern yoga". [4]

  4. 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 ().

  5. Joga Pradīpikā - Wikipedia

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    The Joga Pradīpikā (जोगप्रदीपिका, "A Small Light on Yoga") is a hatha yoga text by Ramanandi Jayatarama written in 1737 in a mixture of ...

  6. Yoga as therapy - Wikipedia

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    The yoga scholar Andrea Jain describes these claims of Iyengar's in terms of "elaborating and fortifying his yoga brand" [16] and "mass-marketing", [16] calling Iyengar's 1966 book Light on Yoga "arguably the most significant event in the process of elaborating the brand."

  7. Yoga using props - Wikipedia

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    Iyengar Yoga was created by B. K. S. Iyengar, a pupil of the yoga pioneer Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and described in his authoritative 1966 book Light on Yoga. [11] The scholar of religion Andrea Jain observes that the book "prescribed a thoroughly individualistic system of postural yoga", [ 12 ] one that was "rigorous and disciplined", [ 12 ...

  8. Geeta Iyengar - Wikipedia

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    In addition to teaching at RIMYI, Iyengar periodically toured worldwide to carry on the Iyengar Yoga lineage. She was a well-known figure in yoga around the world, in North America, [7] [8] [9] Australia, [10] South Africa, [11] and Europe. [12] She trained yoga teachers around the world, for example in Italy. [13]

  9. Yoga the Iyengar Way - Wikipedia

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    [7] Yoga Matters calls Yoga the Iyengar Way "an influential classic textbook." [1] The journalist and yoga teacher Ann Pizer, writing on Very Well Fit, rated it the best overall runner-up yoga book of 2019, writing that "the photos may look a little dated because of the unitards. However, they're almost preferable to the 'sexy' photos so often ...