Pain as Guru: Embracing Challenge as the Path to Wisdom
“Pain is your guru.” — B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life This bold teaching from B.K.S. Iyengar often provokes discomfort—not just because it involves pain,
קבלו השראה והישארו מעודכנים – הירשם לניוזלטר שלנו לקבלת העדכונים האחרונים, תובנות מעוררות מחשבה ומשאבים בלעדיים למסע היוגה שלך
“Pain is your guru.” — B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life This bold teaching from B.K.S. Iyengar often provokes discomfort—not just because it involves pain,
“To a yogi, the body is a laboratory for life, a field of experimentation and perpetual research.”—B.K.S. Iyengar This insight from Guruji is not
“Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.”—B.K.S. Iyengar This definition invites us to rethink what it means to
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.