Beginner's Guide to Iyengar Yoga

Iyengar yoga is popular for new yoga students and involves props to help the poses. Learn Iyengar yoga in this video yoga lesson.

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Alignment is all important
Build poses from ground up
Use props
Good for beginners

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Cindy Mastry has practiced yoga since the age of eight, and also has a background in Jazz and Ballet. Active in the fitness industry for nearly twenty years, she teaches aerobics, kickboxing, and yoga at many fitness centers in the Tampa Bay area. Cindy trained with 84 year-old Master Yogi Monk, Baba Hari Dass at the Mt. Madonna Center in California and owns/operates "Yoga Etc Studio" in St. Petersburg, Florida. Cindy teaches yoga to people of all ages and experience levels and at very competitive rates.

CINDY MASTRY: Hi. My name is Cindy Mastry and in this clip, we're going to discuss the beginner's guide to Iyengar yoga. B.K.S. Iyengar brought his yoga, his style from India, and he's considered to be one of the great yogi masters. His style involves proper alignment and it's all important even more important than the breathing, the breathing comes later. So it's a very detailed, minute detailed approach to building of poses from the ground up, so that you get proper alignment, proper body posture. You use a lot of props. You use blankets, bolsters, chairs, straps, anything that can help you come in to your alignment and come in to the pose is better. So if you are a beginner or a perfectionist, Iyengar yoga is really good for you because you're going to learn proper alignment, you're going to use lots of props, and you're going to get a good start of building the poses from the ground up, so that you can take those to the rest of your yoga practice and make sure that you never injure your body. Namaste.

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