Iyengar Yoga

The yoga community celebrates the life of B.K.S. Iyengar’s daughter, Geeta Iyengar, who passed away on Sunday, Dec. 16.

Using a chair as a launch pad to toggle between Kurmasana and Tittibhasana is a great way to build mobility and challenge your balance. Ready to give it a try?

Try this strap trick to increase postural awareness in the upper back and shoulders—and relieve the excess tension that accumulates there.

Learn how to use a chair and a block in Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose to both ground and expand the posture all at once.

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Variations on classic poses helps create new pathways within your nervous system and open you up to possibility.

Senior Iyengar Yoga teacher Carrie Owerko offers an alternative approach to One-Legged Crane Pose II. Go ahead, take flight.

Carrie Owerko shows us how repetition and novelty are both important in daily practice.

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Carrie Owerko calls herself a nontraditional Iyengar Yoga teacher. While the lineage of Iyengar has a reputation for being strict and methodical, Owerko is driven by a love of exploration. A certified senior Iyengar yoga teacher with 20 years of study and work in movement and theater, Owerko chooses to focus on the playful experimental side of the practice.

As B.K.S. Iyengar turns 90, he talks candidly about his life and this thing called Iyengar Yoga.

King Pigeon Pose is about balancing stability and fluidity, in both your body and mind. Grab a strap, folding chair, and blanket and let’s get started!

Open your chest and shoulders and 
challenge your balance as you move step by step into Eka Pada Rajakapotasana II.

Open your hips and stabilize your knees to refine your Warrior I with Carrie Owerko, who leads Yoga Journal's Iyengar 101 course.

Use this mini sequence—from Down Dog to Half Moon Pose—as a fun moving meditation to find core and leg stability that may help you balance, even momentarily, in Handstand.

Eddie Modestini, a longtime student of B.K.S. Iyengar, shares the most important lessons he learned from the late guru.

Worried you're not getting enough cardio? Research has found yoga has just as many heart-healthy benefits.

Want to mix up your yoga practice? Try this Iyengar yoga class that focuses on correct alignment through ropes and anchors.

This ingeniousness from the Iyengar lineage is one of the best ways to support your spine while opening up the pecs and shoulders.

Iyengar teacher Joan White reflects on her time studying with the late B.K.S. Iyengar.

Yoga teacher John Schumacher reflects on B.K.S. Iyengar’s life, his influence on modern yoga, and the legacy he has left behind.

Judith Hanson Lasater shares the most profound lessons she learned from studying with the late BKS Iyengar.

A tribute to the life of one of modern yoga's most prolific luminaries and teachers. (December 14,1918 - August 20, 2014)

B.K.S. Iyengar's students reflect on the personal wisdom they received from the great teacher—and how he profoundly affected the practice of yoga in the West.

In honor of National Yoga Month, expand your repertoire with these four types of yoga that can complement your regular practice.

The popularity of yoga has created tons of business opportunities, and expansion-minded studios have taken notice. Here we describe the top yoga studio chains.

Here, 18 of his students share poignant, heartfelt remembrances of their Guruji and his profound influence.

The husband and wife partners—often called "teachers' teachers"—pay their respective respects to their own guru.

Join yogis across the country Tuesday, August 26, in a practice dedicated to the master.

"When teaching, BKS Iyengar poured all of himself into the process of transmission, whether teaching 1 or 1,500 students."

We are mourning and remembering BKS Iyengar, who shared his knowledge to all walks of life and all abilities. His passion for yoga will remain with us.

"Through Iyengar Yoga, I gain access to living sensation within my paralysis and have gained glimpses into the ‘unseen’ unity of the Universe."

"As I see it, his legacy continues with a profound inquiry, 'Can you reach and know the depths of your own soul?'"

The Yoga Journal Contributing Editor, Author, and Founder of the Bay Area's Piedmont Yoga reflects on BKS Iyengar's profound influence.

The Certified Advanced Iyengar Yoga Teacher, Lifelong Student of BKS Iyengar, and YJ contributor remembers his guru.

He shed light on ancient asana and modern life for yogis worldwide.

This weekend yoga studios around the world will celebrate the birthday of a living legend, BKS Iyengar.

Alignment is essential for the health of the knees. Unfortunately, practicing Triangle Pose too often without its counterpose can create an imbalance in the joint. Lean how to stay safe.

Stick with challenging poses to build your muscles and your confidence.

Yogini Djoeke Van Der Werf led Beirut's first Iyengar Yoga workshop at Mont La Saade in Ain Saade on Saturday, reports The Daily Star. "For the yoga community of Lebanon this is a premier event," said Lina Shuman, the workshop's...

Indians have not embraced yoga, relying instead on medicine for various illnesses, B K S Iyengar told Press Trust of India (PTI). "In India, there are more people who are drug addicts, I mean those addicted to medicines. Everybody wants...

Iyengar Yoga may help improve stability in aging people.

Lois Steinberg, Ph.D., details the practices taught to her by Geeta S. Iyengar for all phases of the menstrual cycle.

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Twists can be heaven for a bad back—if you don't push too hard. Learn how to do these 9 stretches for the spine to ease pain in your back.

The use of props in Iyengar Yoga has been one of the fruits of Mr. Iyengar's innovative genius—and also the object of jokes.

At the 2005 YJ Estes Park Conference, Sri BKS Iyengar encouraged students to keep striving—but to also realize that what we're searching for is already inside us.

In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar reveals the "heart of yoga" that he personally discovered through more than 70 years of disciplined, daily practice.

YJ profiles the pranayama practices of six yoga traditions and finds differences ranging from the subtle to the profound.

Iyengar's first new asana book in 35 years, Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health, is a beautiful addition to yoga literature.

Learn about the news and community of Iyengar Yoga and how is legacy continues on.