The main benefit of Iyengar yoga is to align the body. Iyengar yoga is the best style of yoga for beginners and even for those who practice yoga regularly but find that their joints have lost flexibility due to injury or other medical reasons.

How did the Iyengar style of yoga develop?

Its creator is B.K.S. Iyengar, when he was 15 years old, he started yoga because when he was young he suffered from various illnesses (flu, tuberculosis, malaria...). noticing great improvements in his health. This encouraged him to dedicate himself to teaching this discipline, creating a new modality of yoga which he called with his own name, “Iyengar.”

His teaching is mainly based on the yoga sutras of Patanjali. In his book Light on Yoga, in which he talks about this type of yoga, he offers a series of postures depending on the ailment or problem suffered; for example, for diabetes, heartburn or headache