About Iyengar yoga

Iyengar yoga is a discipline within the traditions of yoga.  

It is not primarily concerned with flexibility.   There is a precise and careful attention to physical alignment, an insistence on balanced and integrated development, and an emphasis on postures to develop strength, endurance and suppleness - physically, psychologically, mentally and emotionally.

Margaret River Yoga School teaches Hatha yoga in the Iyengar method.   Iyengar yoga is one aspect of yoga that involves the practice of postures or asana and breath control or pranayama.   The classical asanas and pranayamas are taught in a precise and systematic way laid down by B.K.S. Iyengar.

The Iyengar method is both an approach to the practice of yoga and a teaching method, it is not a separate path of yoga in itself.   It has evolved as such over the last 60 years and is based on Mr Iyengars own practical experience and interpretations of the classical yoga texts.