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2007
USA
Lois Steinberg
English

Once again visited Moscow Lois Steinberg , director of the Institute of Iyengar yoga in Champaign - Urbana ( Ill. ) to share with Russian students their knowledge and unique experience . Lois , one of the favorite students BKS Iyengar specializes in yogaterapii . Moscow seminar on yoga therapy for teachers.
" What can I say ? Lois simply magical. Man with X-ray (or tomographic ) eyes. Course, is the result of many years of meticulous work , including with their own problems .
The seminar was very busy . Mainly designed for teachers of Iyengar yoga , dealing with not quite healthy students.
It struck me as such a large audience she managed to almost everyone to pay attention , to find an individual approach . She explained to us, the students , showing various embodiments, one pose , depending on the needs and capabilities of each individual. Asanas demonstrated itself . Explaining not just what it does , and how and why . One has not explained how she manages to see everything ... " (Julia Siniavskaya )

Healer
Lois Steinberg - the master of yoga therapy and one of the favorite students of Iyengar . Yulia Makarova met her at a seminar in Moscow.
The starting point for the study of yoga Lois Steinberg began school physical education classes . Thanks to them, she realized the simple fact that train the body is no less important than developing the mind . On the method of Iyengar yoga Lois learned from a woman whom he met at the gym , seeing the ease with which she performs headstand. Together with a new friend , they went to California to her teacher in his native Illinois Lois back a completely different person . Since then, every morning, she engaged in the practice , using as a textbook "Light on Yoga " Iyengar .
In December 1982, Lois made her first trip to Pune in the name of Institute of Yoga Iyengar Ramamani which lasted a whole year. Lois was very fortunate in the same period, she was able to participate in the work of the medical class of the institute. During classes Guruji ( students respectfully referred to as BKS Iyengar ) corrected her teaching style . Since then she has returned to Pune every year to study with the Iyengar family . In 1998, Lois received from Guruji certified teacher intense level , as well as the right to use his name. And create your own institution - Iyengar Yoga Institute in Champaign - Urbana , Illinois.
Lois believes that in practice it is impossible to draw a clear line between proper yoga and yoga therapy. "If Trikonasane student puts his hand on the ankle , but the lower side with compressed school teacher Iyengar offer him lean on brick to release and remove the lower half of the body - it is yoga or yoga therapy ? " - She says. Once a man came to her institute with a prosthetic knee , hip joint while the same leg was in a serious condition, and doctors predicted ambulance operation. "We began to engage with him in a special program , and hip healed. A prosthetic knee bends now better than it is written in its technical characteristics . Often I help people recover after a hard treatment. So the concept of yoga therapy includes a variety of things , which at first glance may not seem therapy and not quite yoga - often poses a therapeutic option so complicated various supports that position itself is impossible to know ... "
In the therapeutic class teacher first puts the student in a position where he can relax , paying special attention to the problem area. For some, this is the end of : a stranger must first feel comfortable and confident trust and yoga teacher - sometimes it takes months . Then begins the actual work with the problem area - it is pulled and twisted . At the end of training - again relaxing. Teacher qualification is very important : you need to know the laws by which the body functions , and be able to adapt them to each individual student.
How does yoga therapy ? Yoga has on people is very profound effect , the essence of which - traction . It improves blood circulation and other body fluids - down to the cellular level . Circulation around the body of the patient is always broken , fix it if it starts to function better.
The healing power of yoga therapy and Lois had a chance to experience for yourself. She suffered from thyroid disease , which is transmitted to it by inheritance. "I was about thirty , when my turn came . I've done yoga , but at that moment my life was overloaded : two works , dissertations, teaching yoga - it was crazy days , and could not stand thyroid . I became involved in a special program , Guruji helped me to find the best approach to treatment . Also I used homeopathy and once , at the moment of crisis , took a short course of hormone therapy. It's over now , and I competently help other people with the same problem . The doctor who saw me at the critical moment , says that I need to make the record books - as a person who has survived with such terrible analysis. "
The Institute Lois new students fill out a questionnaire , listing the diseases they suffer . The sad fact , but every year of health problems in people becoming more and more - and the elderly and the young. Lois believes that play an important role in the doctors they prescribe to their patients too much medication , treat one problem , and simultaneously create new ones. However , the whole lifestyle of modern man has a bad effect on health: "I am glad that people are trying to cope with their problems , can now practice yoga, which became available to everyone."
At the end, we asked our readers to give Lois professional advice . Students often complain that the day after the yoga and muscle aching body becomes less mobile - this is due to the fact that tissue lactic acid accumulates . Is there a way to avoid these unpleasant feelings ? " Lactic acid accumulates after any strenuous physical activity . Eventually , by the way , it passes - those who are engaged for a long time , no such experience . If you want to avoid this, you need to do at the end of classes Setu Bandha Sarvangasane on the support. I would suggest to use a back Bolster , brick under the heel and a strap to tie the foot. In this position, expanding the area of the liver , and it is responsible for the removal of lactic acid from the body. In order to reduce the amount of lactic acid in the muscles of legs, using Virasana ".
After the seminar in Moscow Lois went to St. Petersburg, and there to share their knowledge with students and unique personal experience. And we are waiting for her in the next year - with new stories with a happy ending .