Reading Together: Light on Life
Tuesday May 5th & May 19th 1:15-2:00pm
Interested in expanding your knowledge and understanding of Yoga beyond the postures? Let’s dig a little deeper and see what we can uncover.
We will take a month to read together B.K.S. Iyengar’s book Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom. We hope that this literary initiative enriches your Yoga practice and invites curiosity, contemplation, and compassion into our Yogic studies. Discussions will be facilitated by BBY teacher; Lisa Kazmer, who is one of a handful of Certified Iyengar Yoga Teachers in New Hampshire.
Tuesday, May 5th 1:15-2pm: Preface to Chapter 4 (up to page 146)
Tuesday, May 19th 1:15-2pm: Chapters 5-7 (pages 147-266)
AND on Sunday, June 7th 11:30-1:30pm there will be a workshop ($30) of the Asanas for Emotional Stability sequence as laid out in the back of Light on Life.
How to participate:
- Register for free at the link below.
- Get the book & read it. Engage with the book. Annotation is endorsed; scratching in the margins, underlining beautiful passages, and scribbling personal connections to the text (of course don’t do this if it’s borrowed) OR read the book with your ears via audiobook if that’s more your style.
- Join the discussion in-person at Bending Bodhi Yoga We will meet a little over halfway through the book Tuesday, May 5th 1:15-2pm and at the conclusion Tuesday, May 19th 1:15-2pm. Come regardless of how much you’ve read.
- OR join us live via Zoom. Email lisakazmer@yahoo.com for the zoom link.
More about B.K.S. Iyengar’s book Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom “B.K.S. Iyengar — hailed as "the Michelangelo of yoga" (BBC) and considered by many to be one of the most important yoga masters — has spent much of his life introducing the modern world to the ancient practice of yoga. Yoga's popularity is soaring, but its widespread acceptance as an exercise for physical fitness and the recognition of its health benefits have not been matched by an understanding of the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual development that the yogic tradition can also offer.
In Light on Life, B.K.S. Iyengar brings readers this new and more complete understanding of the yogic journey. Here Iyengar explores the yogic goal to integrate the different parts of the self (body, emotions, mind, and soul), the role that the yoga postures and breathing techniques play in our search for wholeness, the external and internal obstacles that keep us from progressing along the path, and how yoga can transform our lives and help us to live in harmony with the world around us.”
