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14Jan

What is Iyengar Yoga?

Lucy Greeves

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Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja (BKS) Iyengar is the best possible advertisement for the yoga movement he founded. At the age of 95, he still practises regularly; anyone who thinks they are “too old for yoga” should take inspiration from recent photographs of BKS in postures he first learnt ...
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07Jan

What is Bikram Yoga?

Lucy Greeves

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Bikram Yoga is the creation of Bikram Choudhury (b. 1946), who began studying asana at the age of three. At 20 (so the story goes) he was badly injured in a weightlifting accident and despite a grim prognosis from the doctors, managed a full recovery with the help of yoga. Since the 1970s,...
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22Dec

What is Ashtanga Yoga?

Lucy Greeves

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Lucy Greeves explains the practice and aims of ashtanga yoga, one of the oldest types of yoga
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17Dec

What is Hatha Yoga?

Lucy Greeves

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Yoga teacher Lucy Greeves gives the low-down on the practice and aims of hatha yoga
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10Dec

What Yoga is and Why You Should Try It

Lucy Greeves

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There are many different styles of yoga, but many reasons why it can prove to be good for your health and wellbeing
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05Dec

What’s Turning Men Onto Yoga?

Lucy Marcovitch

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In ten years of practicing yoga, I have never been alongside more than the odd man, usually glimpsed once and never seen again. Yet a quick head count at my class the other month confirmed my suspicions of a growing phenomenon: the women were outnumbered. What brings men these days to a yoga class? The newest recruits have a quick answer: Ryan Giggs. For Euan, 42, the footballer was the deciding factor. “I didn’t really know what I was getting into,” he says, having been persuaded to try yoga to relieve the aches and stiffness that often followed sports sessions....
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