A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by Iyengar. 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs. This is our most recently published yoga book and has quickly become a backlist bestseller.
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A comprehensive, practical, and authoritative guide to the method developed by Iyengar. 100 key postures with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs. This is our most recently published yoga book and has quickly become a backlist bestseller.
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100 of 101 people found the following review helpful
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"Yoga: the Iyengar Way" suceeds where other yoga books fail because of its superior pictures, which give extreme detail to all of the asanas (poses). It's always better to get guidance from a good teacher, but for home practice, this is one of the best books out there and is a great supplement to group practice. As its title implies, Iyengar yoga is taught in the book, and thus the use of props and alternative poses allows for those of different levels of experience to do as much of the asana as they can.
In short, if you're going to own one yoga book, make this the one -- its pictures are MUCH better than either "Yoga for Dummies" or the "Complete Idiot's Guide to Yoga." In fact, if there's a yoga book with better photography and presentation, I haven't seen it.
64 of 65 people found the following review helpful
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This book is great for anyone who is interested in learning yoga. I have been doing yoga for a couple of years now, and this was the first yoga book that I bought. The book is well illustrated and contains more poses than any other yoga book that I have seen. Each illustration shows the correct form for each pose and also gives modifications for those who are not quite as flexible as the people in the illustrations. The book also contains a section with over 60 different yoga routines from begining levels to advanced, so you don't have to try to plan out which poses to do in what order. For those of you who are more interested in a "Power Yoga" routine, I have also found that adding a sun salutation as a transition between the standing poses in the routines adds a little more spice to the practice.
73 of 79 people found the following review helpful
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Such is the celebrity and influence of B.K.S. Iyengar as a teacher of yoga that a book with his name in the title virtually guarantees publishing success.
This book is a fine example of the phenomenon. It is an attractive, coffee table type yoga book for the nineties written by students of Iyengar. Perhaps the most important feature is the beautiful (and non glamorous) photos that illustrate the asanas with an almost mystic power. There's some irony here because it was the photos of Iyengar himself demonstrating asana (over six hundred of them) that more than anything catapulted him to fame some years ago with his now classic Light on Yoga, which I highly recommend as an extension of this book.
Obviously this is a different sort of book, aimed at beginners, but with some depth. It is more generic in a sense as it delves only lightly into the ideas underlying yoga while concentrating on the practical. Indeed its philosophic stance is succinct, and perhaps that is best for an approach focused on the physical health aspects of yoga. One weakness is that it is a little short on pranayama, and consequently on meditation.
Iyengar does contribute a foreword, however, and his spirit is apparent throughout. Overall this is excellent of its type, reminding me of something by Richard Hittleman from some years ago.
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This an all-around beautiful book. Very informative and gentle. It feels peaceful just paging through it. Read more
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Yoga: The Iyengar Way
I really liked the book.It was in very good condition and i liked how it descriped the way each different yoag was supposed to accomplished.. Read more
Published 4 months ago by corn92
Best book on Yoga....
Being from the part of the world thats the birth place of yoga, my love for the art is hereditry but this is the easiest, most do-able book I have ever come across whether you are... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mehwish
Yoga: The Iyengar Way
It has been more than a year ago since I bought this book. I did not know that I did not need the book for my class, but I decided to keep it because it gives the instructions in... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Carolina
Demonstrable!
Needed this book for my final to remember the poses and it helped out a lot. I passed too!
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Published 5 months ago by Lauren
Presented well visually
Presentation straight forward and easy to understand. This book seems to be more for someone who knows their physical boundaries (injuries) as contraindications are not covered in... Read more
Published 7 months ago by ***
best guide book for iyengar style yoga
If u are a yoga student who tries to learn iyengar style this book is a very good choice to see poses clearly with best photos. Explanations are really good too.
Published 12 months ago by PINAR
Excellent!
Pictures are large and easy to see, and shown from multiple directions. Back of the book has beginner, intermediate and advanced collections of poses. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Paula Wisdom
Yoga: The Iyengar Way
This is a very thorough book that explains the origins of Iyengar yoga along with easy to understand explanations of each pose. Highly recommended!
Published 13 months ago by David C. Ratajczak
Super book on yoga
This is the book that my yoga instructor refers to as her favorite. I looked through it and decided that if I were to buy one yoga book, this would be it. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ogstel
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