YOGA IMPROVEMENT
Credibility of Iyengar Yoga
There are very few Yoga systems, which concentrate on and assess
their yoga teachers on the ability to understand and teach correct
body mind breath relationships in appropriate posture work. The
Iyengar System of Yoga is the only system with a detailed and arduous
training and certification process in posture work for yoga teachers.
A minimum of 6 years of structured practice and training are required
before you can be assessed for teaching ability. You must pass a
practical exam from an internationally affiliated body before you
can assert to the public that you teach Iyengar yoga.
New students to yoga are generally not aware of what exactly yoga
is and how to best assess a teacher. So usually teachers are assessed
by the students personality preferences and avoidances. This may
lead to finding an agreeable experience in a "yoga" class
but it may not relate to the actual practice of yoga. Yoga does
not have to be unpleasant but it does have to create the correct
changes in the body, awareness, health and heart of the student
to be a yoga practice.
Yoga poses need to involve using the mind and awareness with exacting
body alignment and muscle integration. Over time skill and personal
ability on several levels, increases and these improved qualities
and attributes are taken into ones life. Stretching is not really
part of yoga it is more about integration in action which is very
demanding on the mind. Improved health flexibility and strength along
with much more result.
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