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... on yoga throughout the world today. Since these two pioneers, a number of other influential teachers have brought their particular focus on yoga to the West, including, most notably, B.K.S. Iyengar (founder of Iyengar Yoga), Swami Rama (the himalayan Institute), Swami satchidananda (Integral Yoga), and Swami Vishnu-devananda (Sivananda Yoga).

The transmission of knowledge of yoga is a two-way avenue, however. Because knowledge about yoga has become more widely available in the West, increasingly large numbers of Americans and Europeans are traveling to India to seek instruction firsthand in the ancient practices of yoga. Ram Dass was one of the first and best-known Westerners to forgo the creature comforts of the West to sit at the feet of a guru in India. He distilled the essence of what he learned in the title of his groundbreaking book Be Here Now. Since Ram Dasss pilgrimage, countless other Americans have followed a similar path.

Yoga Classes - How To Find Your Yoga Classes

...e any information that you could use to get you started. Odds are that you will find your answers here, and you will be able to get as much information as you need helpfully and friendly.

However, if you do not find the answers that you are looking for, in regards to your yoga class questions or, if you simply want more information, why not do a search on the Internet.

The Internet can be incredibly useful mainly because it allows you so many search options and does it all with speed that allows you to quickly and easily brows...more

Teaching Hatha Yoga: Assisting, Demonstrating, and Verbally Cueing

...Some Yoga instructors feel that one method for teaching Yoga is better than the rest; but which one is it? If a Yoga teacher does not give a physical assist, is that wrong? If a Yoga instructor does not demonstrate poses, how can students who learn visually make progress? What about the Yoga instructor who makes an assist before verbally cueing?

There are many methods for teaching Yoga, but students either learn by seeing, feeling, hearing, or a combination of senses. With this in mind, there is no right or wrong method, but Yoga teachers should be aware that some students may have a dominant sense when it comes to learning. This is why teaching methods fo...more

Universal Principles of Yoga, Part 1

...ality, ethnic background, race, and gender; being less, have always been convenient reasons for bigotry, slavery, and cruelty. Tolerance of others is not a new idea in Yogic philosophy.

There is no group that has the exclusive rights to Yoga. India is the birth place of Yoga and the people of India have gladly shared their gift with the rest of the world. There is no exclusive group that practices Yoga or teaches Yoga classes. Yoga was not designed to be an exclusive practice and Yoga has evolved for the best over 5,000 years to this day.

For the sake of being politically correct, many Yoga teachers omit the spiritual aspect of Yoga in their Hat...more