Around the Web: “The Practice of Women During the Whole Month” by Geeta Iyengar
Geeta Iyengar is the daughter of living yoga master B. K. S. Iyengar and is the director’s of her father’s Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India. She is a world-class teacher in her own right, and an authority on adapting yoga for the special needs of women. She is the author of Yoga: A Gem for Women, and Iyengar Yoga for Motherhood: Safe Practice for Expectant & New Mothers. In 2002, on a teaching tour of Europe, she gave a lecture in Poland on yoga for women which was transcribed and published in 2009 with many illustrations. The transcript has been made available as a fee download online by the folks at The Yoga Studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s worth downloading and reading if you are a student or teacher who wants to know more about the hows and whys of adapting asana practice to support a woman’s monthly cycle.
Download the .pdf file here.
(Lois Steinberg, of the Yoga Institute of Champagne-Urbana in Illinois, has written a comprehensive guide to yoga for a woman’s menstrual cycle based on Geeta Iyengar’s work. It can be found here.)
Thanks to Kristen Davis at Yogasana Center in Brooklyn, New York for the tip.
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Thank you very much for keeping this article for free download. It is worth reading. This website on Yoga is one of the good sites I have come across so far. Nice work. Keep it up.
If you do not mind, I suppose there is a typing error as “fee download” instead of “free download.
Once again than you very much.
Regards,
Santhosh.