Tammy,<\/p>\n
I went to my first Iyengar yoga class.<\/p>\n
Every pose was deliberate and held for a lengthy period of time.\u00a0 Blocks and belts were frequently used to help us with alignment.\u00a0 In savasana we put a padded bolster under us to be gentle to the spine.<\/p>\n
This is much different than the vinyasa flow classes where one doesn’t have time to ponder whether the alignment is right in any position.\u00a0 Do the pose and if you don’t get it, on to the next pose.\u00a0 Come on!\u00a0 We don’t have time to wait for you.\u00a0 Bolsters, blankets, and blocks.\u00a0 Are you kidding?\u00a0 Help?\u00a0 Help?\u00a0 Only the strongest make it to the advanced levels of yoga.<\/p>\n
Maybe Iyengar wrote his legendary book Light on Yoga<\/em> to let people know that one can just do yoga and have the time to get it right.\u00a0 Maybe the Big I doesn’t want you sweating.\u00a0 Maybe this Guruji thought Joseph Pilates was an uptight dude and yoga should be an endeavor where your body and mind become harmoniously in sync.<\/p>\n Gary Kahn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tammy, I went to my first Iyengar yoga class. Every pose was deliberate and held for a lengthy period of time.\u00a0 Blocks and belts were frequently used to help us with alignment.\u00a0 In savasana we put a padded bolster under us to be gentle to the spine. This is much different than the vinyasa flow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,12,10],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-class-2","tag-iyengar-yoga","tag-pilates","tag-what-is-yoga","tag-yoga-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garykahn.net\/yoga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}