Why Iyengar Yoga?

Certified Iyengar Yoga Teachers are held to unusually rigorous standards, earning their certification after years of dedicated practice, training, and evaluations by trained, qualified assessors. They know how to guide students of all ages and abilities. Deep-seated understanding and experience of the yoga asanas (postures) allow instructors to teach appropriately to the group in front of them, whether they are younger, older, athletic, or have physical limitations.

From the beginning, Iyengar Yoga develops strength, stamina, concentration, coordination, flexibility, and more. The yoga asanas and Pranayama (the control of the breath) create the springboard that allows students to penetrate beyod the outer, physical layers and explore the inner layers of mind, energy, and spirit. The two quests of the physical and the spiritual are not seraprate but interdependent parts of a total approach to self-mastery and enlightened living.

Using physical alignment as a starting point, Iyengar Yoga encourages the spread of intelligence throughout the body, the growth of self awareness, and an epxerience of the asanas as a form of "meditation in action."