{"id":2307,"date":"2014-08-20T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:41:07","slug":"mr-iyengar-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/mr-iyengar-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. BKS Iyengar&#8217;s Light shines on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like millions of others, I have been influenced by this great yoga teacher, though I have never met him. I have read <em>The Tree of Yoga<\/em>. I refer to <em>Light on Yoga<\/em> and <em>Light on Pranayama<\/em>. I study <em>Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali<\/em>. I use props to aid my alignment. I am aware that yoga is a strong discipline, not a casual affair. I find something in today&#8217;s practice that was better than yesterday&#8217;s practice. Thank you, Guruji, for the great gifts you gave us.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #4e4435; font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #78496b;\"><i>&#8220;When I practice, I am a philosopher,<br \/>\nWhen I teach, I am a scientist,<br \/>\nWhen I demonstrate, I am an artist.&#8221;<\/i> BKS Iyengar <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"India yoga guru BKS Iyengar dies\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-28862979\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-28862979<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like millions of others, I have been influenced by this great yoga teacher, though I have never met him. I have read The Tree of Yoga. I refer to Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama. I study Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I use props to aid my alignment. I am aware &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/mr-iyengar-has-died\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. BKS Iyengar&#8217;s Light shines on<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,13,37,22],"tags":[40,41],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-india","category-living","tag-iyengar","tag-yoga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-Bd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}