Focus: Asanas can be versatile ‘supporting’ practices to all other life endeavours.  If you are a runner, asanas have the potential to do a lot more than ‘stretching’.  The sessions in this Short Course offer carefully chosen options that can help the runner target specific areas of the body, work with actions/ positions that are not adequately covered by running, as well as bringing strength and flexibility to those areas that are continuously working while running.  The sessions offer options for increasing strength and flexibility, injury prevention, resting and recovery, not just on a physical level, but at the level of the mind and the breath. These sessions aim to maintain the rigour (and therefore, the effectiveness) of Iyengar Yoga, but can be attempted by any healthy non-asana practitioner.

We recommend that you start with the INTRODUCTION to the Short Course.  But after that, the sessions may be attempted in any order (pt 4 and 5 were recorded together, and you might want to follow this order).

This session brings attention to the arms and shoulders, and also leads to the segment on back arches. But like most sessions in this Short Course, it can also be done as a stand-alone session

Duration: 33 mins.

Props needed: any regular chair, sand bags, two equal weights are recommended

Note:

• We are assuming a general level of physical fitness in these sessions – in the interest of keeping the sessions focussed, we do not discuss adaptations for injuries/ accidents/ any other special conditions