Journal / Yoga studies
The Iyengar Institute Milan Blog to talk about Yoga, beyond trends.
Insights into practice, science and insights into contemporary yoga studies academia.
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Oct. 29, 2022
Fall detox - part 3
Chiara M. Travisi
Find a focus on the third part of the detoxifying sequence
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Oct. 28, 2022
Fall detox - part 2
Chiara M. Travisi
Find a focus on the second part of the detoxifying sequence
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Oct. 27, 2022
Fall detox - part 1
Chiara M. Travisi
Find a focus on the first part of the detoxifying sequence
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Oct. 22, 2022
Seasonality - Fall de-toxifying yoga sequence
Chiara M. Travisi
The first sequence I am presenting deals with Fall and is focused on ‘de-toxifying’ the embodiment. Detox here means how, through our yoga practice, we can become able of ‘touching’ some internal areas which are particularly related to the physiological functions of ‘digestion' and ‘de-toxification’, but which are usually far away from the possibility of a direct contact. Yog-asanas and prāṇāyāma give us that ‘magic’ to create such a contact.
Iyengar | News | Practice | Science
Oct. 19, 2022
Seasonality: the climate outside and the climate inside us
Chiara M. Travisi
Transformation, ‘seasonality’, is a fundamental principle to be taken into consideration in personal yoga practice. Every day our embodiment experiences bio-chemical changes in order to adapt to external stimuli, generating an internal response and continuous transformation. In other words, every day we find ourselves dealing with a ‘climate outside’ and with a ‘climate inside’ us. In this series of four sequences I address this fascinating topic by proposing a practice for each climate season: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer.
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July 6, 2022
Breathing de-automatization: proper timing and proper results
Chiara M. Travisi
"The body, the limbs, the psyche, the organs of action and sensory ones are very 'ours'. Breathing is not as much "ours". However, breathing is more than anything else 'for us'." Prashant Iyengar, "Pranayama: a Classical and Traditional Approach"
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April 22, 2020
Iyengar yoga per il sistema immunitario
Chiara M. Travisi
Le posizioni capovolte sono le più importanti da mantenere e praticare con regolarità per coadiuvare il corretto funzionamento del sistema immunitario, sempre sotto la guida del vostro insegnante. Ecco il materiale didattico messo a disposizione per voi.
Iyengar | News | Practice | Science | Yoga Studies
April 21, 2020
Tapas, reasonable effort and resilience in practice
Chiara M. Travisi
Where does a reasonable effort in our practice end? Assessing the boundary conditions and acting out of habit is always desirable
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March 11, 2020
Letture per aspiranti yoghin – 2
Olga Dalì
Per i più fortunati di noi, si spalancano ore di tempo forzatamente libero tra le quattro mura domestiche. Perché non approfittarne per intrattenersi con qualche testo per aspiranti yoghin?
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March 4, 2020
Yoga at the time of coronavirus
Chiara M. Travisi
What do we need yoga for during the coronavirus? Exercises to strengthen the immune system or test of the Patanjialian system? Who heads who? Yoga is the test of resistance to the virus yoghin or the virus makes us test concretely, for example in terms of anxiety management, if the effect of the practice of yoga on our mental condition is actually what you want?