What is the difference between Hatha Yoga and Iyengar Yoga?

1, the activities are different: Hatha Yoga can be practiced in a very difficult, can also be practiced in a very simple, completely at the disposal of the practitioner's own arrangements.

2. Different styles: Iyengar Yoga has a wide variety of dazzling auxiliary props, which is the biggest difference with traditional yoga.

3, different postures: Hatha Yoga system from the asana posture to start practicing, known as the "six branches of the method of yoga". Hatha Yoga mainly practices how to control the body and breathing, the deeper effect is to make the body function in an orderly manner, so that the mind to obtain peace, become peaceful. Hatha Yoga in China mainly focuses on the practice of postures and breathing, supplemented by meditation and the closing method. Most yoga studios use this system.

4, the role of different: Iyengar Yoga is conducive to the correction of the body, the recovery of injuries, suitable for beginners, frail beginners and stiff people, but also suitable for the need to improve the quality of the asana practitioners. Because Iyengar lifetime of in-depth study and personal practice of asanas, only with his precise and accurate understanding of the asanas, to be able to produce treatment, correction, correction of the efficacy.

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