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.
Iyengar | News | Practice | Science | Yoga Studies
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?
Iyengar | News | Practice | Science | Yoga Studies
Nov. 28, 2019
Yoga and injuries from vanity
Chiara M. Travisi
The debate on the potential injury risks of yoga is not recent but now more than ever it seems that the main risk is not the practice itself but the vanity of practitioners.
Iyengar | Science
June 19, 2019
Movement, action and mirrow neurons
Chiara M. Travisi
“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.” B.K.S. Iyengar
Iyengar | News | Practice | Science | Yoga Studies
June 5, 2019
Calmness and pranayama
Chiara M. Travisi
How come breathing is the basis of many traditions Yoga, meditation and not only?