Iyengar Yoga

I was 12 years old, and there was no way one could "get out of" the eighth grade at the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago without memorizing and reciting the poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," to be precise.

You would think that, as an Iyengar-style yoga teacher of three (mere) years' standing, I might at least notice if a one-legged yogini (female yoga student) "walked" into my classroom. Reader, I did not notice.

Whether you're a beginning or experienced yoga student, chances are that you've faced off with your hamstrings in one way or another.

by guest blogger Holly Walck, Iyengar yoga  practitioner and teacher in Bethlehem, PA (YogaWithHolly.com) and Istanbul, Turkey I have spent the pas...

As a teen, I first learned yoga from the classic Yoga in 28 Days, which 35 years after its original publication, is still in print. After a decade of ...