Iyengar's first 10 postures from Light on Yoga

Light on Yoga was Iyengar's first recognized major contribution to yoga in the West. Thought the writing is a bit staid and the photographs a grainey black and white the book retains its usefulness as an instructional instrument. Espically interesting are Iyengars takes on pranayama and on the Bahandas. In both cases when talking about breathing exercies and root locks he explains things in an accessable and clear way. I do recognize that in reading the text I am aided by my knowledge of yoga which allows me to 'see' exactly what he describes.

Having picked up Light on Yoga just the other day off my book shelf I thought a nice experiment would be to work through the book and attempt all 700 or so postures, completing about 10-20 at a time. This is rather ambitions as many require a very supple body and some postures will take some time to master. Yet I feel up to the challenge.

In fact after doing them myself I instructed my class in the first 10 postures today. They seemed to very much enjoy the expreience if not the effort as it was difficult for many of them to get the revolved poses (uttitha parsvokonasana etc)

Thats all for now I hope everyones self practice is coming along

P