Iyengar yoga is classical yoga, the yoga of Patanjali (2nd c BC) Raja Yoga, is Hatha Yoga and implies that an ethical discipline is essential for a spiritual experience.

Iyengar yoga involves precissions practice, which through the skin's nervous system leads to awarennness, a kind of meditation through action.

It is traditional yoga experienced by a person who has attained complete awareness and who has been generous enough to teach this knowledge based on physiology, anatomy and subtlety of the perception.

This teaching is know as Iyengar® yoga, and is based on the total integration of the person, that is, the mind-body duality disappears.

Patanjali, sage from the C 2nd BC says yoga involves stopping mental action. To attain this reavives eight steps: the astanga yoga of Patanjali

• Yama
• Niyama
• Asana
• Pranayama
• Pratyahara
• Darana
• Dhyana
• Samadhi

BKS Iyengar is also author of a book on Patanjali's yoga.

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