Iyengar Yoga – Therapy for Stress Management

Chat on the Mat with Abhay Javakhedkar

Therapeutic powers of yoga are bountiful. Extensive researches are going on to unearth and apply yoga in curing psychological and physiological problems. Yoga is being recognized as Complementary and Alternative Medicine as a result of clinical trials that proved that yoga helps in alleviating stress, physical, emotional and spiritual pain, strengthen muscular strength and flexibility, improves cardiovascular and respiratory health, helps in overcoming addiction, anxiety, and depression etc. Most of the problems today are stress borne and is the cause of anxiety, insomnia, depression that drive us away from living a normal life. To counter such issues Iyengar yoga has tremendous power to help one overcome the worst form of illness. Iyengar yoga was conceptualized by Sri BKS Iyengar who underwent several ailments since childhood and became a legendary yoga expert by his compassionate, intelligent and problem solving approach. Iyengar yoga is a modified form of Hatha Yoga wherein props like belts, bolsters, bricks, chair etc. are used to ease the asana.

Abhay Javakhedkar, a direct disciple of Sri BKS Iyengar, founder of Yoga Studio, IyengarYogSadhana, Pune and a renowned yoga mentor at RIMYI will unearth the several aspects of Iyengar yoga and its application as a therapy in healing severe health issues especially related to stress.

Questions

1. What is unique in Iyengar yoga for managing stress-related conditions?

2. How Iyengar yoga helps to relax and strengthen the spine and nervous system?

3. How Iyengar yoga poses create a bridge between mind and breath?

4. Do you believe if mind is healthy, body is healthy?

5. In this yoga ecosystem, when everybody is talking about Yoga as a physical form of exercise what makes Iyengar Yoga not an exercise but a therapeutic healing practice?

6. What young yoga seekers can do to strike a balance between professional & personal life with Yoga?

7. What do you think about hellomyyoga?

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