Knowledge, Practice, and Healing
At the opening of Light on Prāṇāyāma, B.K.S. Iyengar invokes Hanumān [हनुमान्]. The reference is brief, almost passing, yet it is not incidental. Iyengar
At the beginning of Light on Prāṇāyāma, B.K.S. Iyengar mentions, almost in passing, the concept of Hiraṇyagarbha. He does not stop to explain it,
March 8, 2026 9:30am UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) About Stephanie Quirk Stephanie Quirk is internationally recognised as a leader in Iyengar Yoga therapeutics. She
Agi Wittich is a yoga practitioner since two decades, and is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher. Wittich studied Sanskrit and Tamil at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, completing a PhD with a focus on Hinduism, Yoga, and Gender. She has published academic papers exploring topics such as Iyengar yoga and women, the effects of Western media on the image of yoga, and an analysis of the Thirumanthiram yoga text.
