Learn how science and research are benefitting life here on Earth,
including NASA’s new video feature “Benefits for Humanity: In Their Own
Words.”
Monday, August 25, 2014
Information for Prospective Investigators | NASA
Information for Prospective Investigators | NASA
Learn how science and research are benefitting life here on Earth,
including NASA’s new video feature “Benefits for Humanity: In Their Own
Words.”
Learn how science and research are benefitting life here on Earth,
including NASA’s new video feature “Benefits for Humanity: In Their Own
Words.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Yogacharya BKS Iyengar
It
is with a very heavy heart that I write to let you know that our
beloved Guruji has passed away. Sri BKS Iyengar passed away peacefully
this morning at the age of 96. I will pass on our heartfelt sympathy to
Geetaji, Prashantji, Abhijata and the Iyengar family on behalf of the
Australian Association.
Bertha, BKSIYAA President
Welcome to the official website of the BKS Iyengar Yoga Association of Australia (BKSIYAA).
The BKSYAA brings together students and yoga teachers committed to promoting, protecting and disseminating the art, science and philosophy of yoga according to the teachings of Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, one of the foremost yoga masters alive in the world today.
The site aims to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information and news for the community about the practice and teachings of Iyengar Yoga in Australia.
You can browse through the menus to find information on the Iyengar yoga system, to locate a teacher or class in your area and to search for current events and listings. Information is also provided on the requirements regarding teacher certification – teacher training and assessment.
You are welcome to join the Association and, as a member, support and promulgate Iyengar Yoga in Australia.
Bertha, BKSIYAA President
Welcome to the official website of the BKS Iyengar Yoga Association of Australia (BKSIYAA).
The BKSYAA brings together students and yoga teachers committed to promoting, protecting and disseminating the art, science and philosophy of yoga according to the teachings of Yogacharya BKS Iyengar, one of the foremost yoga masters alive in the world today.
The site aims to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information and news for the community about the practice and teachings of Iyengar Yoga in Australia.
You can browse through the menus to find information on the Iyengar yoga system, to locate a teacher or class in your area and to search for current events and listings. Information is also provided on the requirements regarding teacher certification – teacher training and assessment.
You are welcome to join the Association and, as a member, support and promulgate Iyengar Yoga in Australia.
News from Pune
Geetaji’s 70th birthday celebrations – December 14 announcement: Geetaji will be taking 10 classes in December (1st to 10th Dec) Preference will be given to students with less than 10 but more than 3 years of ‘Iyengar Yoga’ practice. Registration has not opened yet, we are waiting to hear from India, please keep checking back here regularly.National Convention - Sold Out
if you have missed out on a ticket, please contact events@iyengaryoga.asn.au to be waitlisted.
Who is BKS Iyengar
BKS Iyengar
Yogacharya
(master teacher) BKS Iyengar is recognized as one of the world’s
foremost exponents of yoga. He became known in the West through his
classic text Light on Yoga, first published in 1966 and never out of
print since then.Yogacharya BKS Iyengar is acknowledged as having been instrumental in bringing yoga to the west. He sees yoga as an art, a science, a philosophy – not secret or exclusive and, at the age of 88 (in December 2006) has not in any sense “retired”. Each morning for two to three hours he does his personal practice, alongside his pupils in RIMYI hall, while most afternoons he can be found in the library, attending to correspondence, researching and writing. A demanding teacher, BKS Iyengar guides his students to practise asanas in different ways emphasising the importance of the proper sequencing of the asana practice to understand not just how, but why and what happens when you do an asana.
Yogacharya BKS Iyengar is renowned throughout the world for his therapeutic approach to yoga. His innovative use of supports or “props” modifying classical postures, allows a student who may be ailing and whose body is stiff bodies to be supported in asanas without strain or the risk of further damage. Sporting teams, dancers, musicians and many others have been helped in recovering from injury and illness through these methods.
Over many years BKS Iyengar’s contribution to yoga has been acknowledged by many awards – the first being given in 1935 at a World YMCA conference in Mysore, India. More recently, in 2004, he was named in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
A philanthropist for many years, Mr Iyengar established a trust, the Bellur Krishnamachar Seshamma Smaraka Niddhi Trust in 2003 to build facilities and schools in his home village of Bellur. Having taken yoga to the west his dream is to bring yoga to the villages of India and in particular to Bellur so that the children and young people of the village will be afforded a good educational standard and be able to learn a trade. Already a high school has been established as well as a new hospital.
Yogacharya BKS Iyengar’s first book Light on Yoga, published in 1966, has been translated into sixteen languages including Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Korean and Ukrainian. He has also written Light on Pranayama, Sutras Light on the Yoga of Patanjali, Light on Ashtanga Yoga, Yoga Vrksa: Tree of Yoga and his latest book, launched in September 2005, is Light on Life. Among others his books include six volumes of Astadala Yogamala which contain collections of his writings and interviews.
Mr Iyengar has visited Australia on two occasions – 1983 and 1992. At the time of his first visit in 1983 Iyengar Yoga was practiced by only a handful of students. Today Iyengar Yoga is widely practiced and taught throughout the world by over 2,000 qualified Iyengar teachers in over 40 countries, 200 of whom teach in Australia.
“When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious,you will bring health and harmony to those around you and health and harmony to the world not by withdrawing from the world but by being a healthy living organ of the body of humanity”. ~ BKS Iyengar
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What is Iyengar Yoga
What is unique about Iyengar Yoga is that it is characterised in the practice of asana and pranayama with the innovative approach emphasising precision and alignment, planned sequencing, timing and the use of props. This approach has allowed people of varying ages, levels of health and fitness to enjoy the benefits which a sustained practice can bring – the ability to face the physical, mental and emotional challenges f contemporary life with strength, vitality, mobility, thoughtfulness and equanimity.
The term “Iyengar Yoga” was coined by students of Mr. Iyengar to distinguish Guruji’s approach from other styles of yoga. He, however, has described his yoga as “Patanjali Yoga” and says:
Guruji, BKS Iyengar has written many books and articles on yoga. A good place to start is with the introduction to Light on Yoga (considered a modern classic about yoga) first published in 1966. The Articles on Iyengar Yoga page presents many articles written by BKS Iyengar and others. For an introduction to Iyengar Yoga go to the Understanding Iyengar Yoga page, where you can read articles by BKS Iyengar and two senior Australian Iyengar Yoga teachers.
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