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Dr. Sameer Kulkarni, a student of yoga Originally written in Marathi and published in a local Pune magazine, “Anubhav”, this article was read out at Geetaji’s birthday convention in December 2014.

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Bee: When reading the articles from around the world about Mr. Iyengar after he passed, we were struck by how often the props and the relationship to safety were mentioned. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d love for you to expound on that.

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Establishing and Structuring Self-Practice - Part I Eyal Shifroni

The articles by Faeq Biria and Rajvi Mehta addressing the theme of self-practice in the Spring 2014 issue of Iyengar yoga News expressed ideas that many readers found both illuminating and encouraging.

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The theoretical insights given by Faeq Biria and the experiential responses to questions by Rajvi Mehta SURPSWHG D UHTXHVW IURP UHDGHUV ² FDQ ZH KDYH D SUDFWLFDO JXLGH WR VHOI SUDFWLFH" :H DUH UHVSRQGLQJ WR WKLV by publishing a guide to self-practice by Eyal Shifroni. His article is divided into two parts: how to start selfpractice at home and advice for students who already practice at home and wish to deepen their practice. Part 2 will appear in the next issue of IYN.

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Eyal Shifroni has been an Iyengar yoga teacher since 1985, and is Director of the “Iyengar yoga Center of Zichron-Ya’akov”. Eyal is author of: A Chair for Yoga - A complete guide to Iyengar yoga practice with a chair, and is currently working on a follow-up book: Props for Yoga - A guide to Iyengar yoga practice with props. He has translated two of B.K.S. Iyen-

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Modern Yoga Practice from the Perspective of the Embodied Self: A Study of the Lived Experiences of Iyengar Yoga Practitioners

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is something about the practice that marvels and challenges me. That is the fact that one has to perform poses and try to do them the best way possible. I feel that is something worth applying to other dimensions of my lifeâ&#x20AC;? (Jacinta, 45 years old).

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