When taught and practiced correctly, Iyengar Yoga is not only meditative but also physically challenging and ideally tailored for all fitness levels and for everyone who wants a vigorous yoga practice. This form of hatha yoga is a powerful asana practice with sequences designed to give the body a challenging workout for increased strength, energy and flexibility, without heating the room or repeating a preset asana sequence every day.In this exhilarating style of yoga practice, students will build strength and tone their muscles. The intensity and variety of postures will revitalize the whole body, reduce stress levels and keep you in peak condition.
The BKS Iyengar Yoga Centre, Camps Bay is one of the largest and most highly respected yoga centres in the country. It offers classes for students and teachers of all levels in asana (postures) and pranayama (breathing), workshops with some of the finest teachers, weekend intensives and programs covering various aspects of the science and art of yoga. Yoga can provide each of us as individuals, and the world as a whole with skills to improve health, foster serenity and expand awareness.
At the centre the purpose is to offer this invaluable tool to an extensive an audience as possible while at the same time providing uncompromising, quality yoga instruction. We emphasize establishing a personal practice as the path for discovering the benefits of yoga for oneself. Classes are an opportunity to acquire the information and experience the information and experience necessary to build a safe and effective practice. All classes teach the Iyengar method of hatha yoga. This vigorous approach emphasizes a balance between strength and flexibility, builds endurance, and develops self-awareness through precision in movement and attention to subtle aspects of posture and breath.
Iyengar Yoga is an innovative and inspired approach to the classical Eastern discipline particularly relevant to our Western culture.
Developed over a period of 50 years, Iyengar yoga, which emphasises precision in the execution of postures and also makes extensive use of props, is the most popular approach to Hatha yoga. Iyengar yoga even purely as an exercise, offers what no other from of exercise can offer -- a way to build strength along with relaxation, flexibility along with endurance, and balance along with a peaceful state of mind.
The method of study is orderly and progressive and the postures are adjusted to meet the physical conditions and needs of each student. Yoga as taught at the Centre is a way to find a deeper meaning in life, starting with the body and moving inwards.
Iyengar yoga is based on the teachings of BKS Iyengar and begins with learning the art and science of asana and pranayama, which fine-tune the body and revitalize the mind. Then we can embrace our personal progress more completely, and live a more whole and meaningful life. Students experience meditation in action, a state of being focused and absorbed in the moment.