How did it happen that such an ancient practice from the country is from far from Western traditions, culture and climate suddenly became tarring all over the world?
First of all, it is the merit of those people who were able to adapt the Indian yoga for "Neindus", that is, for us with you. And here we must pay tribute to Sri B.K. S. Ayengar, named the whole direction called.
For more than sixty, he teaches people in his method and practices himself longer. It all started with the fact that young Ayengar decided to improve his own health, which since childhood was rather weak. At that time, the husband of his sister Krishnamachar, the experts of the Vedas and the Yoga teacher, offered him to live in his house, helping the housework. In return, he promised to show the young man with several yogic exercises. However, after the first lesson, the teacher manshedrally stated Iyengar that his body does not possess neither force nor flexibility - it is completely unreleased for yoga.
Many would have their hands in these circumstances, but fate gave Ayengar a new chance. Once, Krishnamachar, a favorite student disappeared right before a responsible performance, there was no one to demonstrate complex poses. The teacher decided to put on the replacement of Ayengar, asked him to explain what. Oddly enough, the young man coped with the hardest task assigned to him, the demonstration was successful. True, he himself seriously pulled the bundles, and pain in the whole body was tormented by him for a long month.
And yet it was a turning point in his life - now Ayengar began to attend yoga classes. However, serious tests just started. The teacher was very harsh and even cruel to him, and most difficult poses had to be built not as a result of regular practice, but during the demonstrations, when Asana had to be performed immediately and immaculately.
But soon fate soon intervened. This time, the teacher thoughtfully to send one of his students for half a year in Puna - to train the locals yoga, but no one wanted to move to another city for a long time and did not know English, which was required to conduct classes. The choice fell on Ayengar, who spoke a little in English and was forced, as usual, to give way to the will of Krishnamachara.
Moving to Pune was more like a link: in India, then yoga was not popular, no matter how strange it was now nor sounded. Over the next years, Ayengar led yoga classes in schools, colleges and Pune universities. At the same time, he dedicated to ten hours per day of personal practice, giving preference to dynamic and power asanam. Over the years, the number of his students constantly grew, and he himself became more famous. People who had health problems wishing to strengthen it with yoga began to contact him.
In 1966, the book of Ayengar Light On Yoga was published, which became an international bestseller. It is called the Yoga Bible. The photo is made to Yoga Practika, EastNews.
But at that time, his teaching method came only with young and healthy people, for all other problems with the spine and joints turned into a real obstacle to classes. Plus, foreigners began to come to India more and more often to come to know the ancient system, but physically unable to repeat most Asan.
It turned out that the average european has a completely different plastic, rather than the Hindu: he is bad very spin, "jean" the joints, and the muscles and the "wooden". And then Ayengar developed a new system based on classic Hatha Yoga, but includes less complex and more static poses, as well as allowing the use of numerous auxiliary materials.
New yoga has gained considerable popularity. In 1973, Ayengar laid the first stone in the foundation of the Yoga Institute in Pune. This institute has become a kind of Mecca for those who want to join the yoga.
Ayengar teaches and practices yoga for more than 75 years. This year he will be 92 years old. The photo is made to Yoga Practika, Eastnews.
Yoga in Russia
"Yoga Iyengar helps men and women, regardless of their age, health, nationality, - says Maxim Yushko, executive director and teacher of the Yoga Practika centers. - Its main goal is to make the body softer, flexible, rustier. In order for students to stay in Asani without excessive tension, an auxiliary inventory is used: wooden bricks, belts, blankets and other techniques to help take the correct position.
To this day, Sri B.K. S. Ayengar, despite the old age, continues to practice himself and teach others. It is called the living legend of modern Hatha yoga. Thanks to him, Yoga has gained enormous popularity around the world, survived the second birth at home and continues to help people regardless of the color of the skin.
In order for students to be in Asani without excessive tension, auxiliary equipment is used: wooden bricks, belts, blankets. The photo is made to Yoga Practika, Eastnews.
Guruji (translated from Sanskrit - "Teacher") twice visited Russia: the first time at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture and Sports in 1989, the second time not so long ago - in 2009. The Russian history of Yoga Ayengar begins his countdown since 1987, when a group of people was subdued to the USSR Ministry of Health to India to study various directions of yoga. The group included Elena Fedotov, an employee of the Moscow Med Institute. For four months, she traveled throughout the country, visiting various centers. But the strongest impression was made on her Sri B.K. S. Ayengar. From the whole manifold, it was selected that was his method as the most effective and most adapted to the needs of Western man.
If you are new in yoga, then you need to go through the introductory course. The instructor will explain in detail what the essence and the method of Yoga Aengar. The photo is made to Yoga Practika, Eastnews.
Upon returning to Russia, Elena Fedotova founded the first Yoga Yoga Center in Russia. Subsequently, the Moscow Center of Yoga Ayengar acquired deserved popularity, and the Yoga Practika network was formed on its basis.
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Until now, it is considered very prestigious to undergo training at the Institute in Pune, and many Russian yoga seek to pass practices there. "
With the most Azov
"The most important plus method of Ayengar is its availability," Maxim Yushko continues. - Anyone with any level of training (even with a number of diseases) can come to classes. Comprehension asanas occurs slowly - from the simpler to more complex, as the body and consciousness become ready for their implementation. In addition, there is no spirit of competition and rivalry in yoga: the task of both newcomers and yogis with experience is to bring your body and your consciousness into harmony, and then the Olympic records will not help. Each person is unique and has its own characteristics: some easily gets the defamations and inverted poses, others, on the contrary, power and inverted. But few people are given all asans at the same time, so we all have something to learn.
Gently changing your body, becoming healthy and friendly, we are not only growing spiritually, but also change the world around the world. The photo is made to Yoga Practika, Eastnews.
At first, problems with the entry into one or another pose occur even in young and trained, so it is not recommended to perform complex asans, while the body does not have the necessary stability, and the mind is a concentration.
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If you are a beginner in yoga, then you need to undergo an introductory course, which will give an idea of the Ayengar method, explain in detail how to perform postures, and teach the use of all sorts of subsidized materials.
There are four main types of Asan:
- poses standing;
- slopes and twisting;
- deflection;
- Restoring and inverted postures.
Inverted postures are the most complex, so if you for some reason missed part of the study classes, be sure to visit the fourth, where the inverted asans are mastered.
During practice, severe discomfort and overvoltage should not occur. You should not be in Assan if at the moment it is higher than your physical options. Practice should take place without violence over its own organism and deliver internal satisfaction.
Each novice yoga should be aspic by patience and self-discipline - without these two terms not achieved. The recognized masters of yoga believe that a person comes to yoga one, and leaves others - more balanced, calm and harmonious.
The Ayengar method does not require harsh compliance with the power rules, a refusal of alcohol or smoking. Although those who practice yoga regularly gradually refuse harmful habits and go to healthy food, but it happens naturally. "