Video: Mr. Iyengar: Use Your House as a Prop
WATCH THIS streaming segment as Mr. Iyengar answers a Q&A question about how we can practice without the benefits of elaborate props such as the horse, which was used extensively throughout the workshop. (Watch video (Part 1 | Part 2 | Download MP3)
The response starts off by exhorting the audience ("you have to think!"). Mr. Iyengar then guides Manouso Manos through a wonderfully practical demonstration of how to do a variety of poses using walls, stairs an imaginary bed. Lastly, he closes on a measure of reproach to his critics who deride the Iyengar method for its excessive use of props ("Light on Yoga came before the props"), and closes by his humorous suggestion that props were part of his master plan to do yoga into his late eighties and beyond.
