Iyengar Yoga Criticism

Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/iyengar-invention-yoga

Iyengar doesn’t get all the credit for making yoga safe for society ladies; two of Krishnamacharya’s other students helped to disseminate yoga as we know it.

B.K.S. Iyengar: The guruji who brought yoga to the …

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/23/bks-iyengar-the-gurujiwhobroughtyogatothemasses.html

Iyengar’s strict teaching style — he often barked instructions and jabbed his students when their asanas failed to live up to his standards — attracted some critics, such as author and veteran yoga...

Yoga Reconsiders the Role of the Guru in the Age of #MeToo

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During his workshops, B. K. S. Iyengar, who died in Pune, India, in 2014, openly slapped and kicked his students while telling them, …

#MeToo Unmasks the Open Secret of Sexual Abuse in Yoga

https://www.kqed.org/news/11690316/metoo-unmasks-the-open-secret-of-sexual-abuse-in-yoga

I read more than 50 scientific studies about yoga. Here's what I …

https://www.vox.com/2015/7/22/9012075/yoga-health-benefits-exercise-science

Is modern yoga dominated by a culture of backbiting?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/bks-iyengar-one-of-the-founders-of-modern-yoga-has-died-at-the-age-of-95-9684537.html

Iyengar played a significant part in this. Born in 1918, the 11th child of a schoolteacher from Bellur in south-west India, he took up yoga as a teenager. He had previously suffered malaria, TB...

Iyengar Yoga 101: What Is It, Health Benefits & How To Practice

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Iyengar yoga increases the production of a mood-boosting chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in your brain, a recent study discovered. Participants in the study reported lower levels of …

Iyengar’s Charisma of Incoherence, and Selected Indoctrination …

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I think Iyengar tries another miracle cure which, not surprisingly, goes bad too (since Iyengar doesn’t have a clue about what he is doing and the whole proposition …

Correction is NOT Criticism - The Yoga Place

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Iyengar Yoga is know for its engaged and engaging teachers. “Observation and Correction” is a unique and huge element of our training – the ability to really “see” …

Constructive criticism to Yoga Iyengar : yoga - Reddit

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Iyengar was clearly hyper-mobile, and some of his abilities came from being able to move in ways that aren’t typical to most. Also, the whole being designed for young boys thing is …