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Question for anyone. One of the great things

about ashtanga vinyasa is the heat. For me, as for many

others, the heat allows a deeper movement and more

comfortable movement into postures. I dont see this in the

iyengar method. I dont even like to do postures without

my sun salutation warm up to start mysore. Am I

missing something about the Iyengar style.

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Fiend,<br><br>I missed the heat in Iyengar

methods also. The solution was a good 10 minute workout

on the rowing machine before starting my Iyengar

routine (there is a very good fixed routine in the

Sivananda tradition)<br><br>Jim<br><br>Jim

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I like many others, have worked seriously with

Iyengar Yoga as well Ashtanga Yoga. I find what I like

about Iyengar Yoga is the alignment, the way one works

in the pose in a sensible way but what I don`t like

about Iyengar yoga is that you are encouraged to go

into extreme postitions without having warmed up

first.<br>I have injured my hamstrings recently by doing

Iyengar Yoga- simply because I wasn`t warmed up enough to

go into the asana.<br>In Iyengar Yoga there are sun

salutations as well but very few teachers use these to help

the class warm up. Anyway if you did get warmed up

there are so many details one has to add in every

posture that one tends to cool down again.<br>So all in

all you are right, the heat is very important

..Iyengar yoga with its principles of alignment can

compliment Ashtanga Yoga very well BUT when doing Iyengar

yoga remember that you aren`t properly warmed up so

don`t push yourself too far.

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I also know of an extremely flexible and experience astanga yogi who, when

recently attending an iyengar class, injured himself simply because he wasn't

warmed up.

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