Year: 2008
Country: India
Genre: Yoga
Duration: 02:22:00
Language: English
Documentary about the life of Guruji Sri Krishnamacharya Belur Sundararadzha Iyengar, shot his ninetieth 14.12.08
Belur Krishnamacharya Sundararadzha Iyengar was born December 14, 1918 .
At age 16 he was sent to Mysore to his sister , who was married to the famous yoga teacher T. Krishnamacharya . At first he denied his painful relative to yoga because of lack of good karma , experience accumulated in the past births . But a week before a very important showcase for Krishnamacharya ran his best disciple and guru taught Iyengar short and severe course of asanas , which he successfully demonstrated the Maharaja of Mysore . After that Iyengar was not only a disciple of Krishnamacharya , but also a teacher at his school of yoga.
In 1936 Krishnamacharya sent Iyengar teaching yoga in Pune , as apart from him or one of his disciples guru no more proficient in English . To gain experience and perform the asanas with precision and perfection Iyengar became Tutor . To grasp the performance of each pose , he worked long hours . " I treated my body as a temple and asanas are my prayers ." - He wrote in his autobiography . Advances in practice and reflected on his teaching, as an effect which increased the number of its students.
In 1943, he married 16 -year-old Ramamani that not having a clue about yoga before marriage has become a real helper to her husband and she started to practice yoga teach children. After the war, BKS Iyengar yoga teacher as famous , which involved many famous Indians . After becoming acquainted with the violinist Ieguddi Menuhin in 1952 Guruji gained fame in the West. Among his pupils were many foreign celebrities, including the Belgian queen mother .
At home , in Pune, Guruji could not train a large number of students , because he lived in a small house . In 1968, he bought a plot of land on which was built Yoga Institute , which opened its doors January 19, 1975 , entitled " Ramamani Iyengar Yoga Memorial Institute ." By that time, the eldest daughter of Guruji, Geeta and son Prashant also started teaching yoga , working with his father at the Institute .
During the years subsequent to the first tour of Europe in 1954 , the year BKS Iyengar visited Australia, New Zealand , the United States , Britain, Canada, France , Italy, Spain , Belgium, Holland , Sweden, Switzerland , South Africa, Russia , Japan and many other countries. Thanks to him, the West discovered yoga.
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In 1989, Sri BKS Iyengar was invited by the Ministry of Health and Sports Committee of the USSR at the international conference in Moscow, where his performance was a huge outcry. It was after this event in Russia the opportunity to practice yoga on a serious level .
Iyengar Yoga or classical yoga Iyengar method allows you to teach the body and its parts work properly , as nature intended it . Effect of asanas - to get rid of health problems and the possibility of personal development and spiritual growth - depends on the quality of performance of poses. Iyengar yoga classes will help get rid of the stoop, will open the chest , get rid of lordosis. You learn how to work with your hands and feet. Learn lots more opportunity to strengthen your health.
At first glance , everything is simple . But to teach the body to work correctly even in simple poses difficult, all you'll see on the first lesson . Much more important to perform a simple pose correctly , efficiently, run it all the muscles, bones , joints , than make a complicated position, braided into a knot , hit all around , but most of the body to leave the "stupid" . Things were not designed to show everyone around something unusual, some supernatural posture , exercises designed to change the body.
Your body will change for the better , but it will not happen immediately . And with the change of the body will occur and change the state of mind and consciousness . Iyengar yoga moves involved no desire to do something super- , super- , and the desire for sensation of strength , freedom and fullness of life that comes through practicing . We have no competition , records, but you get the feeling that you can everything be beautiful , successful, become masters of their own lives.
Iyengar Yoga allows you to get rid of various strains of the body : Deformation of the arms, legs , inevitably lead to deformity of the spine and internal organs, which eventually leads to various diseases and inharmonious attitude. Doing yoga Iyengar method , you can reduce the deformation of the body ( or completely get rid of them - it all depends on your investment and effort ) .
You will begin to feel better , the body will become beautiful , gradually withdraw health problems , and you will be able to solve the problem entirely different level - in business, in art, in science, the problem of spiritual growth ... But it would be wrong to say that dealing with Iyengar yoga is not interested in difficult postures or fashionable nowadays dynamic sequence of asanas ( yoga dynamic ) . Iyengar Yoga - a very broad and wide method . From all other methods of quality features asanas .
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