Three in the Room: Student, Teacher, and the Subject of Yoga

Iyengar's use of props is often misread as an accommodation for limited bodies. It is the opposite.

A belt, a block, a folded blanket — these extend the duration a body can stay in enquiry. Duration deepens attention. Attention reaches the subject. The prop is not a concession. It is a tool for encounter.

Every body — stiff, injured, elderly, strong, newly arrived — can meet the subject through the right support. That is not a small claim. That is yoga's original promise, made good in a room in North Perth.