light on yoga

[Guest guest]

light on yoga is a great reference, for any form

of yoga. the majority of the book is spent

illustrating and describing the different postures but a good

portion of the book addresses other arms of yoga as

well.<br>he actually ranks all the postures on a scale of

difficulty, with one being the easiest. i think the hardest

was ranked 60 or so. <br>can you guess what posture

in the standing series/first series/finishing series

group was rated most difficult? the answer kind of

surprised me. just to put our struggles in context, if i

recall correctly, he gave it a difficulty rating in the

mid-teens.<br><br>i just got Light on Pranayama but haven't had a

chance to spend much time with it yet. for some other

ideas, try some of the books given in terry slade's link

for yoga

books:<br><a href=http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yogabook.htm

target=new>http://www.ionet.net/~tslade/yogabook.htm</a>

[Guest guest]

Please enlighten us about the most demanding pose in the primary series,

according to Lyengar...

[Guest guest]

<<....the most demanding pose in the

primary series, according to Iyengar...

>><br><br>and the winner is.....<br><br>utthita hasta

padangusthasana, rated at a 16 on the intensity scale. <br>setu

bandhasana, kuramasana and supta kurmasana all scored

respectable 14's. marichy D was an 11. i could not find janu

C in his book.<br><br>of the more than 200 postures

that he describes, tiriang mukhottanasana was given

the highest intensity rating, a 60. this is a

standing backbend in which the yogi has his/her hands at a

point on the shins just above the ankles