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Rodney Yee: I basically fell into it, for one thing. Rodney Yee: If you think about it, most people get hurt in cars anyway, not yoga class. I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. It's this question that begins to take us out of the mental attitude that we're isolated from everything and separate. Above the Berkeley Ballet Theatre was a yoga room, so we decided to go take the yoga class and see what kind of light it would shed on the subject. At first, I went from taking classes about 3 times a week in Berkeley to deciding I would take the teacher training at the Iyengar Institute. Share Guide: In the mid 1990's it went to another level of public interest. It was just an interest for most people. That's one of the big problems in the United States: people actually DO NOT WANT TO FEEL.

My friend and I used to stretch all the time because we were extremely tight dancers, and that was the one thing that was keeping us from progressing further in our dance technique. Yoga is a 5,000 to 6,000 year old art form, and yet at the same time it is opening up into whole new arenas of consciousness and whole new places for exploration and for discovery. I feel that I am opening up in my yoga practice more. I started taking yoga class once a week. This was in 1980. Then I started taking yoga more and more seriously. Rodney Yee: Yes, I studied both at the Yoga Room in Berkeley and the Iyengar Institute in San Francisco. Share Guide: Didn't you study at the Iyengar Institute in San Francisco? Share Guide: At what point did you decide that you wanted to teach? So my wife and I started teaching class out of our apartment in 1984 or 1985. All my high school and college friends were getting a little bit sluggish because they were in corporate jobs and they said, "Hey Rod, why don't you teach us some yoga." So we started out teaching classes for free to our friends.

To me, as a teacher, it is important to teach yoga for the whole human being. I have thought of yoga as actually being an umbrella inside of which are these different paths. He's created an incredible synthesis, so that if any yoga is going to tie in with Western medicine, Yoga Baby Pose it will definitely be the Iyengar System. And this is very applicable to the Western understanding of the body. The ability to understand the subtlety of the body takes great focus, so there is no division here between mind and body. It's about asking the body and the mind to make the vocabulary of movement much bigger and broader in all the natural ways. Make sure your elbows are straight. But Iyengar says, let's make the body the candle. Some of us should be heavier, and some of us will be naturally lighter, because there's a lot of different body types.

His discoveries in the human body will probably continue to advance us for the next 200 years. You have to understand that in classical yoga there was still a sense that you had to leave the body in order to come into higher states of consciousness. In 1992 they asked me to try out for Yoga Journal's videos and so I did that. I remember coming out of that class and saying to my friend, "I can't believe how good I feel!" I felt like I got a direct and influential impact from that one single class. It was not just how good my body felt but how clear my mind felt, and how clear my emotional body felt. A lot of people describe Iyengar as strictly physical, but he's been so demanding and so exact in the physical body that it makes it a mental practice also. The more you start doing a practice like yoga, the more these things start revealing themselves. For instance, a meditative practice might be gazing at one thing, like a candle flame. Do not practice the yoga yourself.