B.K.S. Iyengar 1938 newsreel Part 1 (SILENT)

[MrTmaddow]

Inspiring and beautiful.

[fanofkimboslice]

Utterly AMAZING !!!!!!!

[BeRedIQ]

my new role model

[srianilparvathina]

12 fucking idiots..

[Moreofthesamez]

But is he happy?

[LUVallova]

@Moreofthesamez

One could never know without knowing him personally.

One can only perceive which is not knowing.

[krishnasimpson2011b]

@Moreofthesamez claro que é

[krishnasimpson2011b]

@Moreofthesamez claro que é, sim ele é feliz porque tem auto controle, E isso é tudo.

[quistan2]

The direct source of my teachers knowledge, clearly I am in good hands.

[faloverdade]

What the fuck is that?



[helltopay1]

Talk to this geeza and hed tie you up in knots

[brontewcat]

I have been doing yoga for about 12 months and can still barely touch my toes. He is incredible!

[OmmmYogi]

WOW!

[TexanMike]

Fake.

[LadenDaPuttar]

is he same bks what we see nowdays.

or this bks has gained nirvana.

[DaddyVegas]

For a 37 yr old man with limited flexibility how is my fascia going to react to extensive yoga training? Does anyone know the anatomical dynamics at play regarding how the fascia elongates and repairs itself?

[j1g2w3]

@DaddyVegas Try having a look at Anatomy of Hatha Yoga, by Dr David Coulter. It's pretty heavy going with lots of anatomical and scientific language, but if you can deal with that then you may find your answers. Ultimately though, you will have to start slow. Yoga practice is no quick fix and "extensive yoga training" may be a matter of months or years. Good luck!

[radioheadkids2]

@DaddyVegas For fascia worries, stretch...grastrocnemius muscle (s l o w l y, with love). Advice, RELAX your body in EVERY posture, which is the key to being a tree. Dead weight begats strength while adding flexibility, keeps you from becoming sore, too. Balance, strength, flexibilty, perfect alignment...no need for strain, forget pain, does dude on vid look unrelaxed, hell naw. Oh yeah, chest (heart chakra) out, should the main focus, cuz if that is open the rest will follow. PEACE

[talon115]

Awesome!

[TheChalkychalk]

Its been around a lot longer than 1938, like the Chinese who tap into Quigong it has been practised by peasent farmers ect for hundreds of years.

[marktimmer2212]

i dislocated my shoulder while watching this

[MrCoonrad]

this is Krishnamacharya, not Iyengar

[rudedude84]

@MrCoonrad naw man, that's Iyengar. Krish looks way different and older.

[Chereebers]

@MrCoonrad This is BKS Iyengar. If you look at the pics in Light on Yoga, he looks the same :)

[jvgmusic]

Beatifull

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[jvgmusic]

aum

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nmeste

pure reaw organic yoga

[ivette818]

I'm taking a Yoga class, my teacher is certified in Iyengar Yoga, she learned it from Mr. Iyengar himself. I love the class and I'm thinking of making Yoga something that I want to do the rest of my life.

[amnnony]

great...

[radioheadkids2]

The mystic MASTER!!!

[PoeticSoul87]

Wow...that is freaking incredible!

[MandukaTV]

This is why we need YouTube. Amazing.

[VeryMarkMcCormick]

it's Iyengar not Krishnamacharya. He's 93 (or 92) not 90. I was in Pune India last fall and saw him. He still practices every morning (and watches cricket at night :-). His books by the way, are amazing: yoga goes way beyond the physical and he talks about that at length in Light on Life. And if you are just into the asana limb of yoga, well read just that chapter of Light on Life: very enlightening!

[dipak465]

what a great video

[martinezdelarosa]

Realmente grandioso.Qué facilidad y flexibilidad,y qué dominio de la técnica.

Tendría el maestro por esa época unos treinta años.

[legman36]

Is this B.K.S Iyengar or Krishnamacharya? It looks like Iyengar as a much younger man.

[HighlandFreePress]

I intend to resume Yoga in 2010 after years of not doing it.

[RealLifeIZ]

so are you doing yoga now

[Epulaeryu]

Amazing!

[vwasic]

great....in healthy body, healthy is a mind

[mikaelourak]

what does mean all those stupid

[natyacritique]

no doubt they can. not to take away from gymnastics, yoga is a precise science that heels the body. i have known many people heel serious spinal cord injuries by practice of yoga. Iyengar yoga is one of those. many a dancer has gotten back to dancing with the help of yoga after serious accidents..

[radioheadkids2]

@Psamiad1986 lol

[Utube75]

@Psamiad1986

but a gymnast cannot do what all this guy can do.

[L0rDP3rRy86]

Fantastic

[ruud76]

Definitely Iyengar...long, long time ago though.

[catgumart]

I don't think this is B.K.S. Iyengar..

[99yoga99]

He turned 90 in Dec. Still does 3 hours a day of practice plus teaching.

[thetruth786110]

how old is this dude now?

[GSRFORSALE916]

The purpose of Yoga is not exercise..

[ruud76]

Not primarily, but it is very difficult to have a healthy mind without a healthy body. Primary series of Ashtanga is Yoga Chikitsa - yoga therapy.

[Kastoras123]

asd

[buttegowda]

No words to explain. Wow this is so inspiring. Thanks for sharing this. We are lucky that someone actually recorded this and preserved this through ages.

Thanks a million for posting this.

[1HedidthatShesaidit2]

oh my holly polly bolling eyeballs!!!!

hes great!

[korbonari1]

unglaublich!!!

[AliMohmdkhalsa]

Shri Aiyengar is great!! he's not 90 years old and is teaching and giving workshops. So wonderful! God bless him!!

[seg153]

i think my eyes permanently popped out of my head!

[sansalka]

yoga una verdadera diciplina

[jeremiasrobinson]

Thanks to Mr Iyengar for bringing yoga to the rest of the world and showing us how beautiful (vibrant, alive) we can be.

[shonshu2]

Iyengar is the man

[Noodleztherabbit]

I thought that Ashtanga Yoga was the intense stuff. This looks pretty intense to me! I don't really know much about Yoga though. Only one lesson so far. Can't wait untill next week for another.

[murkhezan]

Ashtanga IS the intense stuff. The asanas you see here are done in the advanced series though. I'm parcticing the primary series for about a year and even that is very challenging. Keep practicing, Namaste :)

[reggaebomb]

merci pour le partage de cette video !

[nikhilyt]

I have his book

[CreativeFlowPACTV]

try it when you're 80 years old.

[Helena1204]

hahahahahahahaahah you are so right!!

[antoxeee]

really good, very good. i'm imprest.

[uriel112358]

he must feel wonderful

[sailajabvrm]

excellent doing

[TheMerlinOfAR]

Incredible! After doing that stuff the guy stands up and doesnt even appear to be breathing hard. He almost makes it look easy, almost.

[kolonspy]

this is off the hook. this is beautiful.

[sokhnamaha]

in regards 2 the video - a blessing 2 witness the master! in regards 2 the comments - as above so below - don't sweat the negative peeps, ossammie is in terrible pain...bless u all!

[daleroes]

Nice to see this video, but the comment string has some gnarly karma going, dats fer sure.

[1spiritual1]

I Loved watching this video! Such a natural sadhana. Thank you for posting.

[jadievictoria33]

This video is amazing...hes soo graceful...i hope to one day be half as graceful and flawless as him.

[frandra]

Great performance..!

[sarantakis]

Well put santtiagofortes. I would add that more important than the asanas, as sincere students of life is to observe with love our own motives and behaviors. This in my opinion can bring us much closer to the spirit of yoga than the most perfectly performed or advanced posture. All the best.

[perfectnumber666]

one horny dude

[DonyaLane]

Simply the best. Meditation in motion.

[mikelkpoet]

Ohm.

[mikelkpoet]

Ohm

[Gustomas01]

The best, BKS Iyengar is the best Guru of yoga. Thanks.

[railzo]

This video makes me trust Iyengar even more. Some of the people who espouse "yoga is not about the physical" seem to do so because they lack the physical discipline to master the poses. But with Iyengar clearly has been there and done that, and can speak with authority about their role in "the cessation of the fluxuation of the mind" and moving beyond the physical. Believe me, when this guy talks yoga, I will listen!

[LardInATubeSock]

@railzo I don't know where you got your faulty information, but Iyengar and Krishnamacharya both espoused the philosophical/metaphysical side of Hatha yoga and the other branches. The physical is the emphasis in Hatha yoga, not to be taken out of context of the greater context. Personally, I think all the spiritual mumbo-jumbo is garbage and I only like the physical.

[codyneel1]

@LardInATubeSock lol this is like saying i like the british fish and chips and hate their "Please and thankyou"

[mike5585g85]

At those time - this kinda movements of human structure is sort of un-heard-of or unseen in the wetern world unlikely how things are today - it was only in 1954 proper gymnastic even started to evolve for women - till 1976 as how it is in olympic today

[mike5585g85]

He is a Tamil Brahmin orthodox

[sarantakis]

For me this is a very impressive clip that has much to do with circus performing and nothing to do with traditional yoga.

[MCPetruk]

This is from 1938. If it has been around that long, it IS traditional.

[sarantakis]

The asanas is a very small but important part of traditional yoga. B.K.S. Iyengar and his followers have a very physical approach and for me miss the whole point of yoga. This of course is just one man's opinion. May I remind you that 100 years is not even a single heart beat in the long history of yoga.

[railzo]

Iyengar or even the most seasoned ashtanga practioners will freely tell you that asana is only one of the eight limbs of yoga. Igengar teaches asana, 3rd limb, right along side the yamas and niyamas (limbs 1 & 2).

--People have to start where they are. For many the physical practice is the most accessible place. What is wrong with that? At least they are starting. If this leads them to continue to walk down the yogic path, and learn about the other aspects of yoga, then great.

[sarantakis]

Yoga was always taught from guru to worthy disciple. Now people like Iyenga take bits and pieces of the tradition and useing it for their own purposes. What you end up with is a piecemeal approach where people think they are doing yoga. People may feel that they are getting some benifit but for me, it is not yoga.

[santtiagofortes]

You are just a talker, sarantakis. Iyengar is not a talker.

[jeanneadele]

today i plan to go to the iyengar studio in manhattan for some sutra study.

[Denisehealthnut]

@MCPetruk

yoga is like 5000 years old or so.

[speedracer77]

@MCPetruk Yoga dates back over 5000 years to Vedic times. You cannot say something is traditional Yoga simply because it dates back to 1938.

In the most literal sense, a master acrobat (ie: from a circus) could perform these moves and have nothing to do with Yoga. The origin of Yoga is a spiritual discipline aiming to achieve Self-realization, stillness of the mind, and transcendence of attachment and ego. The video shown is one leaf on a branch towards those roots but is not the root itself.

[speedracer77]

I do appreciate the video and thank you for it.

[Utube75]

@sarantakis

thats an awful comment from you sarantakis. calling it circus is not wrong. calling it not traditional yoga is truly awful. i am sure you can comment better.

[ray180597]

@sarantakis Looks like you know SHIT about REAL ANCIENT YOGA.

FAIL.

[ALTERED13TH]

@sarantakis Read his book "Light on Yoga." There is an excellent explanation of what Yoga is in his long introduction.

[arnyanki]

@sarantakis you even know what is yoga? lol

[tinadansparis]

Fabulous video clip! It is, indeed, a privilege to view such a skilled teacher during his younger days of practice. Iyengar, more so than any other yoga teacher, has made yoga accessible to so many, regardless of the practitioner's level of flexibility. Yoga is not just about stretching. Thank you for posting the video.

[wynadvenkat]

People can appreciate yoga better if they can develop a good sense of humour and minding their language.Unaffected by anything is verily called Yoga.

[JOBEBOBE]

it's all an illusion just to varying levels believed and called time,i mean unaffected by anything,or whatever!what you say is true untrue & everything else imaginable & non imaginable.

[UniversalPat]

Thanks to YouTube for making the darshan and presence of the great masters among us available to all globally. What a blessings. YouTube fulfils the promise that television could have had had it not sold out to all the commercial interests.

Blessings. NETWORKwithPAT . blogspot . com

[caraphyllis]

Notice that one doesn't have to pump iron at the gym and become musclebound in order to be unbelievably strong, graceful and flexible. Also remember that this great living master says his yoga skills did not come naturally. He was the first to employ many of the props in common use today, because he felt that without them he would never develop into a yogi. What a blessing to have this film to inspire us.

[Ramanathan07675]

Tell that to all the personal trainers who cannot bend down to reach their toes because they practice only muscle building without any awareness that only yoga is a complete system that promotes not only physical, but mental and spiritual health. Why do the majority clench their teeth to lift weights when yoga suggests a better and easier way to restore balance?

[tinadansparis]

Ramanathan, why not do both? Yoga and strength training complement each other, enhancing both practices.

[daleroes]

we might assume that from the outset a yogi and a body builder (or fitness trainer, or strength trainer) have different ends in mind -- those of the latter being rather more short term -- many roads, one destination -- the pursuit of balance,

alignment, and awareness are ongoing -- I am grateful to see this old footage -- consider how differently the west views yoga now than in 1938 -- Mr. Iyengar is a true stalwart standard bearer of a profound tradition

[wynadvenkat]

This video proves that,even in those days,they had graphics!!!

[jelleyem]

Thank you for posting!

[gambheera]

Mr.Iyengar is always inspiring. Thank you for posting.

[guitarguy1381]

You gotta love it when, people who don't know much about a subject matter, try to convey their "expertise" on it. LIsten, this guy is the foremost authority on yoga practice, including the meditation part of it. He did this, to show westerners the so called "bells and whistles" of yoga.

[dhukka123]

The master demonstrating his work! Namaste!

[wesleyan97]

Any decent gymnast can do all of this. While they can be great exercise, yoga asanas are just supposed to help prepare oneself for meditation

[DinkleDandy]

Ever think about where gymnastic exercises are born from? ;)

[deZengo]

I am contantly amazed and inspired when I see what Yogis can accomplish through discipline with their bodies. Through their exploration of "self" (the mind and body) they appear ageless. I prayerfully look forward to the future and look toward those before, who have lead the way -- using yoga as a tool for empowerment!

[natyam1]

incredible

[johanflod]

thanks for posting !!

[Karenski3]

This dude is phenomenal! excellent video!

[antigropelos]

thank you so much for posting these.

[leicbri]

Amazing. He's 88 now, and still doing yoga.

[polexia5000]

I love these videos-thanks. so inspiring!

[kirmet]

Excellent!!!!!