BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
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Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#2And it became a $27 billion pa business.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/how-the-yoga-indust...
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#3And it became a $27 billion pa business. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/how-the-yoga-indust...
This comment embodies the total misunderstanding of Yoga by the Western World.
Yoga isn't about letting everything go during this life. It's about letting go the non important things.
Iyengar himself, while extremely wealthy, strongly condemned the mercification of Yoga that we witness nowadays.
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#4And it became a $27 billion pa business. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/how-the-yoga-indust...
This comment embodies the total misunderstanding of Yoga by the Western World. Yoga isn't about letting everything go during this life. It's about letting go the non important things. Iyengar himself, while extremely wealthy, strongly condemned the mercification of Yoga that we witness nowadays.
Also, you don't need to buy a darned thing to do yoga. Lululemon or no.
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#5And it became a $27 billion pa business. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/how-the-yoga-indust...
You dont have to spend a penny to do yoga
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#6And it became a $27 billion pa business. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/how-the-yoga-indust...
This comment embodies the total misunderstanding of Yoga by the Western World. Yoga isn't about letting everything go during this life. It's about letting go the non important things. Iyengar himself, while extremely wealthy, strongly condemned the mercification of Yoga that we witness nowadays.
> This comment embodies
Excuse me, but what view did i express other than to point it out? I'm aware of the slight contradiction at hand. Recall this site is concerned with revenue generation opportunities
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This comment embodies the total misunderstanding of Yoga by the Western World. Yoga isn't about letting everything go during this life. It's about letting go the non important things. Iyengar himself, while extremely wealthy, strongly condemned the mercification of Yoga that we witness nowadays.
Also, you don't need to buy a darned thing to do yoga. Lululemon or no.
But it is a great proxy for the value that it brought to our society.
Put another way, how else would you put a number on the value that it brought to our society? You could use the number of practitioners, but that wouldn't rank compared to other things those practitioners do.
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#8Every software engineer at some time in their working life will experience lower back pain. Before, you waste time/money going to your favourite medical practitioner, who will most likely advise you with a chemical cocktail - please visit your local yoga practitioner and ask him for a one minute session on Salamba Bhujangasana. This will 'cure' your backpain completely and irrevocably.
If you havent yet crossed over, welcome to the world of yoga.
RIP BKS.
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#9Every software engineer at some time in their working life will experience lower back pain. Before, you waste time/money going to your favourite medical practitioner, who will most likely advise you with a chemical cocktail - please visit your local yoga practitioner and ask him for a one minute session on Salamba Bhujangasana. This will 'cure' your backpain completely and irrevocably. If you havent yet crossed over,…
If the pain is persistent, medical practitioners would be more likely to recommend physiotherapy than an endless supply of painkillers.
Re: BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died
#10Every software engineer at some time in their working life will experience lower back pain. Before, you waste time/money going to your favourite medical practitioner, who will most likely advise you with a chemical cocktail - please visit your local yoga practitioner and ask him for a one minute session on Salamba Bhujangasana. This will 'cure' your backpain completely and irrevocably. If you havent yet crossed over,…
I am not sure that's true, at least in my personal experience. I have lower back pain and this pose, while it relieves the pain temporarily, only makes it worse in the long run. Arching the back like in this asana compresses the lower spine. So I don't think it will cure one's back pain.