The Tree of Yoga Paperback by B. K. S. Iyengar

Product Details

• Publisher: Shambhala (2025-02-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781645472858
• Item Weight: 918.54 grams
• Dimensions: 9.96 x 6.84 x 1.11 cm

​In this classic guide, legendary yoga teacher B. K. S. Iyengar reflects on his method that popularized yoga around the globe.

In The Tree of Yoga, renowned yoga teacher B.K.S. Iyengar offers his thoughts on the integration of philosophy, spirituality, and practice underlying his yoga method and how it can be incorporated into everyday living. Iyengar yoga focuses on developing strength, endurance, correct body alignment, flexibility, and relaxation. Included here is Iyengar’s reflection on yoga in the context of

• family life,

• love and sexuality,
• health and the healing arts,
• meditation,
• death, and
• Patañjali's Yoga Sutras.
  
  

This edition also features a foreword by Patricia Walden, a leading American teacher of the Iyengar style, as well as a bibliography for further reading and a glossary of Sanskrit terms.

About the Author

B. K. S. Iyengar lives in India and travels throughout the world to teach the many people who study his methods of yoga practice. He is the author of Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama.