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iyengar - no breathing, no bandhas, no drishti, no practice...you call this

yoga?<br><br>Alignment? What does this have to do with yoga? Some kind of modern

obsession.

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It's true that none of these elements appear in

Iyengar Yoga, and also that IY develops a different body

type, but different paths may lead to the same ultimate

goal.<br><br>I liked Eric Schiffman's story in his book Moving

into Stillness, where he describes how after studying

meditation with Krishnamurthy for some time, he was still

not getting the results he was looking for, but after

one session with Iyengar he left his body in

shavasana and experienced Samadhi. (perhaps it was just

exhaustion?)<br><br>i used to think that the reason practice was never

mentioned in Iyengar classes was so that the students

relied on coming to class, and it was all about

developing an attachment to the teacher (and supporting

him/her financially). But over recent years Ashtanga has

also become commercial too.

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In fact, astanga yoga is the only (!) hatha-yoga

style around which applies the ujjayi breathing

technique, the bandhas and the dristis during its practice -

all other hatha-yoga systems do not.<br><br>If the

ujjayi breath, the bandhas & the dristis were the key

elements of yoga practice, then astanga yoga alone would

be "real yoga" - a myth which the astanga mafia

would like to make us believe, but which obviously is

not true.

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There's an iyengar studio in Munich - one of the

top ones in Germany according to S2 - that has a big

notice "Üben, üben, üben" ("practice, practice,

practice") right by the door to the main practice room.

<br><br>I've never done any iyengar classes there, just been

for occasional workshops with visitng ashtanga

teachers, so I don't know what they recommend to their

students in class. But the notice seems abundantly clear.

It certainly stuck in my mind, I use it as my

motivation mantra when I get home from work and a cup of tea

seems more appealing than getting my mat out.

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swami karttikeyananda at sivananda headquarters

ashram used to tell us "practice, practice, practice"

was how to reach samadhi. i replied, "no, that's how

you get to carnegie hall." much merriment ensued.

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